Chance me for UVA? Class of 2020 (EA)

Colleges & Universities University of Virginia
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Stats:
SAT I: 2120 (superscore), 2070 (one sitting)
ACT: 34 (English 35, Math 35, Reading 34, Science 31)
GPA: 3.926 out of 4.000 I honestly messed up real bad my junior year…
Freshman year: 4.477, Sophomore year: around a 4.000, Junior year: around a 3.5 (yes I know my GPA plummeted, yes it is completely my fault), Senior year: right now it’s around a 4.200
Rank/percentile: Top 20%

Extracurriculars:
Varsity Golf for 1 year
Varsity Lacrosse for 3 years (captain junior year)
Student volunteer at local hospital for 3 years (orthopedics dept and PACU)
Local youth symphony orchestra for 3 years (first violin)
Chamber quartet for 2 years (1st violin)
Latin club for 3 years
National Latin Exam award winner for 3 years
National Latin Honor Society for 3 years
National Honors Society for 2 years (private one on one math tutor starting senior year)
FBLA Secretary
All-school mass instrumentalist, member of orch pit for school plays and musicals
High honors awards (school)

Internship/work experience
Over the summer, I interned at a a plastic surgeon’s office in another country. Got a very enriching experience about hospitality and the health care profession, in which I hope to have a career (orthodontist).
I also taught english to middle schoolers while I was in another country this summer

Essays: common app is solid, supplement is great
Teacher Rec (2): both pretty good
Counselor Rec: absolutely the best

Currently a senior at a medium sized private catholic school (VERY rigorous)
Transferred to another school in a different state my sophomore year
Fluent in two languages
Lived in 2 countries, 3 states
Minority female (asian), upper middle class
Out of state applicant
Categorized as an international student because I am not a citizen, although I have gone to school in the US since 1st grade. (No green card yet, but soon)

Thanks!
Also: Would UVA care more about GPA or standardized test scores?

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There’s a chance forum for these posts, so we don’t really respond to them here. Check out the admission blog for the post about a holistic review and another one about GPAs. That should help!

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/1059433-chances-posts-belong-in-the-chances-forum.html

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@Dean J, out of curiosity, I followed your links and they eventually come up “page not found.” It is pretty cool that you actually post on this site.

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You are out of state (oos). Recognize that this is a major disadvantage in the UVa admissions process. Im fairly confident that the oos acceptance rate is around 20%… Give or take 3-5 percentace points. So already, 4/5 people with your residential status are not getting in. However, you a “regular” applicant (i.e. Non-lecacy (who have their applicationa read as if they were in state, yet still factor into the oos acceptance rate), non-recruited athlete, non-urm (sorry, being asians arnt really a urm…)); “regular” applicants oos are probably at a much lower acceptance rate, as many of those oos admits who are the “1/5” are athletic recruits or legacies. That being said, regular people from oos DO get in, and you have a high ACT score, as well as some very nice extracurriculars. You downward GPA trend obviously isnt ideal (if you have some sort of legitimate explanation/justification for it, that could help), but as Dean J said, the UVa admissions process is holistic, so having strong involvement in your activities will definitely help you make your case. UVa is probably somewhere in the reach range for you, as it is for essentially all out of staters who cant throw a football and havent grown up hearing wahoowa from their parents, but you certainly have a valid chance.

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Best of luck!