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This isn’t what holistic means. Holistic means all factors are part of the application. The fact is that “chance” threads are pretty much worthless because they never provide context and students always gloss over the academics and focus on a laundry list of activities. [There’s</a> a reason we don’t really “chance” in the UVa forum](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/1059433-chances-posts-belong-in-the-chances-forum.html]There’s”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-virginia/1059433-chances-posts-belong-in-the-chances-forum.html). </p>
<p>Remember that GPAs are meaningless without context, folks.</p>
<p><a href=“Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Why GPA is Meaningless Without Context”>http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2014/01/why-gpa-is-meaningless-without-context.html</a></p>