Chances Please for Instate

Colleges & Universities University of Virginia
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<p>SAT I: 610 V 570 M 560 W
SAT II: 680 Bio Molecular 620 US History</p>

<p>taking the math SAT II b/c i am actually not bad at math
Instate virginia student</p>

<p>hardish course load</p>

<p>Ec’s:
President of School
Boy Scouts
Lots of community service
NHS
same varsity sports every year, every season</p>

<p>Aps:
Ap Bio
Ap History
Ap Economics, both
Ap European History
ap latin
ap english lit</p>

<p>umm rank like 20/100
decent essays
good rec.'s
1st gen college bound
lived without parents all of highschool, lived with grandmother who can barley do anything since she is foreign</p>

<p>i dunno what else to put, i just really want to get in.</p>

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<p>hard to tell without gpa
are u a junior? senior?</p>

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<p>senior with a gpa of 3.5-3.6 and taking calculus with a 97</p>

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<p>were you born in US?</p>

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<p>yes, but my parents were not</p>

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<p>id say you have a decent chance…your GPA is in range, but not helped by your SAT since your SAT is in the lower half however. i would definently retake it, on top of the SAT IIs…being instate and 1st gen will help you, so as long as you had strong recs/essays, i’d say you’re not a shoo-in, but you definenty have a chance</p>

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<p>any other opinions? does it help if i told you i have more EC’s than i listed?</p>

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<p>you prob have a decent chance if your 3.6 gpa is unweighted coz ur in-state. i assume since ur a senior that ur app is already in. if your essays were good, it’ll help you. i know one person at my school w 3.7 gpa w/o stellar SAT’s who wrote good essays that got in ED.
are you by any chance URM?</p>

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<p>URM? what does that mean?</p>

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<p>under-representative minority excluding Asian though. boo</p>

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<p>does being first-gen improve one’s chance a lot? what if you have two bachelors parents but they can’t speak english? this is actually my case. =/</p>

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<p>1st generation is considered in UVA admissions…
as for the parents, if you’re a minority, then you’re a URM…if you arn’t, then it might be a hook, but most likely not if you speak english…if your first language wasnt english, it too might be a hook, but not a large one since UVA has many internationals</p>

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<p>no i am not a URM, i only wish.
But i did do this stuff:
Varsity Soccer, 9th, 10th ,11th and 12th
Varsity swimming-same years as above
varsity track- same years as above unless something crazy happens</p>

<p>earned varisty letters in all</p>

<p>scholar athlete
and worked in the play for our school all four years</p>

<p>does that help at all?</p>

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<p>oops no i am a URM, asian…if that counts i didnt really understand the explaination</p>

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<p>so are you an asian?</p>

<p>Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, etc. are not under-represented.</p>