<p>Whats UVA’s average Instate SAT score?? I hear its around 1200-1400.</p>
<p>somewhere in that range. <chuckles></chuckles></p>
<p>thrills4ever, you might find the data on these websites useful:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.discriminations.us/storage/002125.html[/url]”>http://www.discriminations.us/storage/002125.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/education/specials/uva_chart.htm?nav=hptop_ts[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/education/specials/uva_chart.htm?nav=hptop_ts</a></p>
<p>So, if you are a bit above the “average” for your location and ethnicity (regarding SATs), have a good gpa, good essays, good ECs, are in top 5% of your class and have taken the hardest courses available – you are pretty much in?</p>
<p>You have a very good shot, yes.</p>
<p>cav, what made you choose UVA over the other schools you applied to? Was it primarily the fact that you would get a world class education at a fraction of the cost?</p>
<p>I’m little confused. I heard that admitted applicants’ average GPA is 4.0. How is that possible? It’s like you have to have straight As or you won’t get in.</p>
<p>that 4.0 number is a mystery to me and a lot of people. </p>
<p>some people think its a weighted number…but you could have a gpa of like 3.3 unweighted and still have a 4.0 weighted…and you can’t get into uva with 3.3 unweighted. but then again a lot of people, especially ooser’s have like 4.5’s +…soooo i think that the 4.0 number is just pulled out of the air and basicly means that you need an A average in.</p>
<p>agreed with jags… whenever colleges give you an average gpa, its not accurate.</p>
<p>im confused…if im considered an instater as a legacy…why have i been told that 1290 (640m/650v) is low?..it looks like the average in state score is…like…carolina and the other “public ivies” in the 1250-60 range…or am i missing something?</p>
<p>I don’t think there is really anyway to tell. I was however looking trhough a book of acceptances at my school to UVA(I go to high school in the NOVA area). The average was about middle 1200’s to low 1300’s.</p>
<p>so…is what im being told right or wrong…bc ive posted my stats before and many have said that its too low for me to be competitive in the deferral admittance pool…i did raise my sat total 80 points the last time i took it in november…so…hopefully they looked at my old one…</p>
<p>cardsfan, this is CC forum of SAT-obsessed people. They would think 1300 is too low, while it is very high and really above the national average, and would want to retake 1450 while it lands in the 50% range of most, if not all, colleges. They evaluate people’s stats and SAT scores based on CC’s high standards. Just compare your test scores to the college’s admitted applicants’ average test scores. That will give you more accurate insight.</p>
<p>Also, I think people under estimate what some unique and outstanding EC’s can do for you. Do schools want students with 1400+? Absolutely. Do they want a whole student body filled with people who won’t get more involved with the clubs the school has to ofer No way. Look at it this way, they have to make a football team, a basketball team and a lot of other crap. You might have something on your Application that can get you in because you help “build” one of those groups. There was this kid last year from my school who had a 24 ACT and a 3.35 WEIGHTED GPA, but he did some crazy EC, I don’t recall what it was, but you get the point.</p>
<p>Good point southernbarn, and I can tell you that if you want to play in the marching band, that is a still a major hook at UVA. The new marching band was just formed a year or two ago, and they are still in the process of building. So far, pretty good band.
Having said all that, at least locally, UVA has a reputation for being somewhat “numbers driven,” resulting from relatively low staffing in the Admissions Office and relatively high number of applications, especially from in-state.</p>
<p>The average SAT for the College of arts and sciences was, with the old sat, about a 1360. This would be slightly lower for instaters, by a couple of questions or so. If you’re lower than this number, it obviously means you are not ‘competitive’ in this particular aspect. As logic indicates, applicants that are on the lower end of the spectrum are accepted due to instate quotas that need to be fulfilled, rather than being accepted because they are very ‘competitive’ applicants that uva wants to draw to itself (many such applicants are rejected due to being OOS). It doesn’t mean you won’t get in, but you need other areas to make up for it in order to be a competitive applicant such as a higher than average gpa or higher than average amount of extra activities, because the people who typically score well across the academic numbers also participate in a number of ECs, with few exceptions.</p>
<p>Still, there are many students who are accepted with <1300 SATs, if for the reasons I explained above. I’ve read one school where 80% of the people who were accepted had <1300 SAT, while my instate, public (non TJ) school had an average of about 1500-1520 SAT between the dozen+ people accepted. It all balances out in a way. Anyway, for someone who has been deferred, you will have to have shown noticeable improvement for uva to consider bringing you from deferral to acceptance since very few are. That may have been the concern of the people you were describing.</p>
<p>sv3a’s point is somewhat off. UVA’s applicant pool is sharply stratified: OOS applicants are held to a much higher standard than instate applicants. The average SAT overall might be ~1350 overall, but that is a composite score that includes instate and out-of-state averages, which are very different. The average SAT score for an instate applicant is in the upper 1200’s. For OOS students, it’s around 1400. An instate applicant with a 1300 IS competitive; an OOS applicant with a 1300 isn’t. Although the average SAT for UVA people coming out of sv3a’s school might be in the upper 1400 range, that is nowhere near the norm state wide. Even in northern VA, the average SAT score is in the 1300 range.</p>
<p>From my high school, which is in nova, it is mid 1200’s to mid 1300’s.</p>
<p>did u apply to uva spaceman?</p>
<p>People in the know at UVA tell me that grades and difficulty/AP# of high school courses are both considerably more important than SAT scores. SAT scores are more likely to be of some importance if off the charts high or low enough to send a warning signal.</p>