<p>1) So, I have done the requested papers for UVA financial aid. One of them was the Documentation of Support, which requests my sisters’ financial awards letters for their schools for the year 2010-11. However, since the year 2010-11 is the upcoming one and they haven’t received their financial awards letters, I wrote a comment stating that we don’t have them. The Documentation of Support now still remains on my UVA SIS’s To-Do List. What do I do?</p>
<p>2) I plan to major in math (and probably branching into either physics or CS), so I was very glad to be accepted into the College Science Scholars Program. Previously, I was concern about how, comparatively, math is not UVA’s strong suit (especially because of a hiring freeze sometime ago, I heard). When I went to the website to read about CSS, I was under the impression that it benefits science majors than a math major (or mainly focus on math) like I intend to do. So, how does the program specifically benefit a math major?</p>
<p>Sorry if my question(s) is unnecessary (the 2nd one) or are outside of your scope of work.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance. :)</p>
<p>this doesn’t answer your question at all, but I just wanted to say yay for math majors! 
I will declare after this semester (I am currently a first year). And let me just say that my math professors have been my favorites, a lot of them are really great. 
Hope to see you around in classes!</p>
<p>I knew a CSS math major, she got her masters in the time it takes everyone to get a bachelor’s. it certainly is still a benefit.
i’m a math major so feel free to post any questions you have about that here, i’ll be brutally honest</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know much, so I don’t have much to ask. I’ll go with the broadest question then: How are the math courses at UVA?</p>
<p>I heard they are rather proof-oriented, which I don’t mind since it is my intended major.</p>
<p>As for the teachers, I don’t expect every one of them to be great, so since it seems that there are some great teachers according to U.Va_hopeful’s post, I’m fine with it.</p>
<p>If you want practice with proofs before getting into the higher-level classes, I recommend MATH 3000, Intro to Abstract Math/Transition to Higher Math. I’m in it now, and it’s really informative. Like before, I could do proofs but I was always a little unsure about them. This class teaches you how to structure them and goes over things like logic, sets, functions/relations, cardinality, induction, etc. It’s pretty interesting, and it’s basically an introduction to things you don’t really see in calculus-based courses. I feel like I’ll be prepared going into the higher-level classes now, but I guess we’ll see next semester :)</p>
<p>Just make sure you take classes with people who have native-English-sounding names, and you’ll be fine. They are definitely proof oriented but you get used to it and then the classes are a breeze. The flexibility with your schedule will depend on which concentration you do. I’m education so I didn’t really get electives (but managed to fit some in); if you are “basic” concentration you get a lot of math electives; if you are grad school concentration, you have less electives at the lower level and more at the upper level, and there are more concentrations you can look up on the math website. Math in college is nothing like math in high school, and I mean that in the best way possible (though I always loved math, math in college was definitely more of what math should have been all along). Hope that helps…</p>
<p>Haha, you two are making me looking forward to math in college. Hopefully taking a math major will make me concentrate on it. In high school, other subjects have really distracted me from math, and as a result I feel that my basics for BC Calculus is pretty weak (though I managed to get a 5 for the AP Exam, I don’t think the numerical score is a reliable indicator).</p>
<p>Also, this may varies, but generally how big is a math class in UVA, and how large is the distance between the board and the front desk? I prefer small classes, and with my poor eyesight, I would prefer to be able to take note with sufficient ability to see.</p>
<p>My Calc 3 class last semester had ~45 people in it I think, and if you sit up front you’re about 3-4 feet from the board. Not an issue at all. My Math3000 class is 31 people, I imagine most of the upper level math classes are about the same as those two?
And I second that advice about native-English-sounding names. Both Thomas Mark and David Sherman are good but I’ve heard some not-so-great things about math professors that people couldn’t understand because of their accents. check out thecourseforum.com once you get your UVA email address for more info about professors/classes (it’s like ratemyprofessor just for UVA)
And I know what you mean about the AP score not feeling like a good indicator…I made a 5 too and considered retaking Calc 2 for about a second, got some good advice on this board actually to not do that, and I am SO happy I didn’t. Calc 3 barely uses anything from Calc 2, except maybe IBP, and Calc 2 is REALLY hard from what I’ve heard. But luckily you don’t have to worry about that :)</p>
<p>I assume the second questions has been answered by now. :)</p>
<p>As for the first, I’m not a financial aid officer. I would get in touch with SFS on Monday morning.</p>
<p><em>bump</em> (if it’s not against the rule :p)</p>
<p>The financial aid office still hasn’t replied to my email, which I sent on Saturday.</p>
<p>yeah, one time i sent them an email and they never replied…
but if you sent it on saturday, maybe they weren’t in the office until today and I’m sure they’re getting tons of emails at this time.</p>
<p>Perhaps I shouldn’t post on the weekend…you seem to think we all work 24/7. :)</p>
<p>Yes. I completely missed the “business” when the automatic notification email said to wait for 48 “business” hours. :p</p>