<p>I know Penn does a program like that for athletes (to get them used to college life and athletics at the same time). I don’t know why you would give up your last summer at home with your friends, you’ll be at UVA for 4 years you don’t need to come any earlier. Plus, unless you’re an athlete or something, you can’t move into your real dorm until at earliest international orientation, and orientation runs all summer so I don’t know why you’d need to rush that. Just my 2cents.</p>
<p>I’m very excited to be student teaching in a rural middle school (math) this fall, I think it will be a lot more rewarding than constantly fighting over how students are given too much work and the curriculum not being the best and so on. But I’ll still be TAing if the cs dept has money (they had better or else maybe I’ll grade for the math dept or something), so it will be an interesting experience.</p>
<p>From UVAorbust: “Decided that Umich, Unc and duke will be my UVA fallbacks”</p>
<p>No, no, no. Fall backs are exactly that, you can fall back on them, they are your safety schools. So if you don’t get in at any of your top choices, at least you get into a safety and know that you’ll be going to college.
For safeties in VA you might want to consider less competitive schools than UVA, and not these very competitive schools that are out of state for you. I’m from NC, so one safety I chose (considering my GPA and SAT’s) was NC State. I had a better chance getting in there, IMO than UNC or UVA or Duke. In early October of the year I applied, I got into NC State, so I was very happy to know I got into my safety school and I was now safe. I did wind up getting into UNC, UVA and Duke, but not to Harvard or Yale (those were my really big “reach” schools"). Balance it out and you’ll be OK. Always have a good plan B.</p>
<p>There are a couple formal programs that help with transition, but there are also students who opt to take summer classes before moving in as first years.</p>
<p>Powderpuff,
UVAorBust is not a VA resident. Your point is very well made however. Michigan & Duke are NOT fallbacks for UVa no matter where you live. They are all highly selective universities.</p>
<p>Ohh I definitly know that Duke and Michigan are not fall backs, if anything they’re reaches. I’m just saying that if I get denied from UVA I wouldn’t mind attending one of those schools. I don’t think I’ll get into either school but if I do and get denied from UVA I wouldn’t mind attending it.</p>
<p>Also in response to your post Dean J, when I fill out my application will I put somewhere on the application that I am opping for Summer enrollment?</p>
<p>No, you’ll don’t designate that at the application stage. Once you are admitted, you can be in touch with your school/college to make those arrangements.</p>
<p>Why would you even give up your last summer as a kid? You can never get that time back. I wish I hadn’t rushed through all of my summers, including this one…</p>
<p>Ahh, to be honest I’m not a big summer type guy. My parents and I argue a lot and I’m looking foward to living in a dorm :). And thanks for the response Dean J. I was kind of hoping that I could apply for the summer and help raise chances but thats not going to happen.</p>
<p>Find a job. Go abroad. Get a second job. Learn a new sport. There’s plenty of things you can do with your summer. Being this close-minded isn’t going to help your application. There’s life outside UVa
I hope you don’t ever try as hard when going after a girl…</p>
<p>Lol Shoebox, I’ve worked 5 days a week the past 4 summers. Also, I attend an all boys school (big mistake). Also I don’t drink/smoke so that takes out partying. I hang out with a lot of kids but summer isn’t a big deal to me tbh.</p>
<p>The University put out a press release outlining discussions at the BOV meeting with particular attention given to the proposed changes in Admissions, for those of you who are interested. </p>
<p>Haha, so for the seniors applying right now, like me, we are going to have to wait until RD? Oh well, would be nice to find out early, accepted or rejected, but its not the end of the world.</p>
<p>Hmm, if a student can’t get through General BIO or Organic Chemistry, you’re not particularly doing them a favor giving them a “C” when a “fail” is deserved; they’ll not pass the upper-level courses, or will be “given” a “C” there as well; a science GPA of 2.0 won’t get you into any medical school, and it’s not like the MCAT is gonna let you slide if you don’t know the material. Just passing the “gateway” course as an act of charity is hardly helpful if you can’t pass the subsequent courses. </p>
<p>Worse would be the reaction of graduate school admissions when they learn of such changes - are they going to mentally “mark down” a UVA student’s GPA to compare them with other schools? Will a UVA 3.5 GPA be considered equal to a Princeton 3.0?</p>
<p>Grade inflation certainly feels good (“A’s for everyone!”), but can also punish those who didn’t need the help in the first place. Lowering academic standards might be the “nice” thing to do, but it’d be the wrong thing to do …</p>
<p>It’s not lowering the standards if they’re stacked against you from the beginning… Just saying. When they are purposely trying to fail students, that is completely different from a student not doing the work or comprehending the material.</p>
<p>I agree with Squiddy 100%.
I’m just not sold on Sullivan as the right choice for UVA. She’s doing things that may really negatively impact the fantastic reputation of UVA when it comes to graduate and professional school consideration.
Let’s hope I’m wrong.</p>