Chance me for UVA

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Hello! I am a seventeen year old African American female student from Richmond, Virginia. I live in a single parent household. I also have a mental illness which has strongly impacted my grades. I have a 4.23 GPA, a 1760 (low, I know!) SAT score, and have taken ten AP classes in high school, which are: Human Geo, Psych, English 11, English 12, US History, US Government, Art History, Bio, Physics, and AB Calc. Among my awards and honors I received the Jefferson Book Award in my junior year, attended VA Girls’ State and was elected a party leader, am currently working on my Gold Award for Girl Scouts, and have attended various leadership conferences. I volunteer with the Children’s Museum of Richmond and held an internship there during my junior year and volunteer with my local library as well. Among my school extracurriculars I played field hockey for three years and was captain this past year, I have been in theatre for all four years and co-founded my school’s Thespian Society, I have been a PTSA student representative for the past two years, contributed videos to my school’s television station, am in various honors societies and service organizations, treasurer of Model UN and have received honorable mention at one conference, Vice President of NHS,and I am a specialty program called the Humanities Center where we focus on philosophy, history, art, literature, and music.
I’m dying to know if I even have a chance at getting in.</p>

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<p>I think you have a very good chance of getting into UVA. Although you may want to increase your SAT score a little, I think the rest is very impressive. </p>

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<p>You definitely have a chance. UVA will usually give some wiggle room on test scores for students with great transcripts, but not the other way around. What’s your unweighted GPA?</p>

<p>Ideally you’d want to retest and bring your SAT above 1900 or 2000.</p>

<p>I’d be wary of talking about mental illness. I don’t think it’s necessary or likely to help you.</p>

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<p>you have a very good chance especially because you’re in state!</p>

<p>chance back?
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<p>Since you are an instate, you have a good shot </p>

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I think that you have a good chance- they will probably overlook the SAT score if you explain the reason. Good luck!