Demonstrated interest in the way it is used today (logging contacts with students) hasn’t been part of the admission process in the decade I’ve been here.
[url=<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2006/09/change-is-in-air.html%5DPre-2007%5B/url”>http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2006/09/change-is-in-air.html]Pre-2007[/url], applying ED would have been a way of showing interest…but we happily let that form of early go and are using EA now. 