<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>