@neonpinklime - congrats to him! Up here, part of the formula of applying includes visiting. We are told that if the kids don’t visit, they have little chance of being admitted. This doesn’t hold as true for public schools but may for UVa, and it’s hard to work a visit in (the school is about a nine or ten hour drive) if one thinks the chances of admission are so slim! Did you visit the school before applying?