Chance Me UVA (deferred EA)

Hi could someone please give me their opinion! I was deferred early action and I am so nervous!!! Half of the time I think I still have a chance, but then at the same time I think there is no chance of me getting into UVA.

Here’s a little about me:

  • I am an instate applicant from a very rural area of Virginia
  • Caucasian female
  • I am applying to the college of arts and sciences and want to major in international relations
  • I am a legacy
  • my grandad was a professor at UVA
  • I am 6/136 students (top 5℅) and the girl ranked 5th got in early action to arts and sciences
  • weighted GPA: 4.548 (my school does not calculate unweighted)
  • I had a 1250 on the SAT
  • I’m in my school’s governor’s school
  • I had amazing recommendation letters and my essays we very well written and thought out
  • I am nervous because I am taking the highest courses offered at my school and every other year I have gotten all A’s with the exception of math courses and 1 other class. However last semester I got:
    AP government - A+
    AP Calculus - C+
    AP English - A-
    Governor’s school internship - A

Is this going to kill my chance, or will the admissions team realize math is my weakness and that I am not going to major in math in college? (This calc class is extremely hard because the teacher is a UVA engineering graduate who believes that even the honors bell curve should be at a c). Many people from my school have gotten a c in the past, but they either got in early action or got the c 2nd semester.

Awards:

  • Jefferson Scholar Nominee
  • William and Mary Leadership Award recipient
  • Randolph college book award

Extracurriculars:

  • president of the student council (3 yrs)
  • secretary of the national honor society (1 yr)
  • captain of the color guard (5 yrs)
  • show choir (3 yrs)
  • All district chorus (2 yrs)
  • student mentoring (3 yrs)
  • internship with the International Neighbors, a non-profit refugee organization in Charlottesville
  • annual spring musical (4 yrs)
  • Guatemala mission trip 2016
  • Volunteering at food pantry

Personally i think that a ton of people go through the same thing with AP Calc and I don’t think it’ll effect you all that much! Good luck!!

I think you have a good shot at UVA idk for sure though.

i got deferred in state (NoVA) as well, but am really confused as to why you got deferred. I would have expected you to get in!

I think that you have a pretty good chance of getting in with all your stats, the only thing that might ding you is the C in Calculus. However in saying that, Calculus is a hard class and since it’s AP technically your C counts as a B so I wouldn’t worry too much. I was deferred as well, and have pretty similar stats compared to you so I’m hoping we have better luck in the Regular Decision round! I think part o the reason I was deferred, was the fact that I have a big senior program because this year was finally the year I have had the chance to take a lot of AP’s since I come from a small school. Hopefully, we’ll hear back soon. Good luck!