<p>If I haven’t gotten anything yet, I’m not an echols scholar right?</p>
<p>Dean J said they’ve already emailed all the scholar invitations/notifications. Perhaps it’s in your spam folder? If not, then it doesn’t look like you’ve been chosen to be a scholar. But, remember that if you attend UVa you can apply to be an Echols scholar at the end of your first year!</p>
<p>What are the real benefits of being an echols scholar other than having the title?</p>
<p>Seems like the biggest benefits are: no required courses, priority registration, & the experience of living with the other Echols scholars in your first year. </p>
<p>However, the priority registration thing comes with a catch: Echols scholars register for classes only ahead of their own year, not ahead of all years. What this means is that a second-year Echols scholar, for example, registers before all non-scholar second-year students, but not before non-scholar third or fourth-year students. It used to be that Echols scholars registered before everyone else (i.e. fourth-year Echols register, then third-year Echols, then second and first-year Echols, and then all the other students would register beginning with fourth-years and trickling down to first-years), but not so anymore. Thus, it’s not as big of a perk as it may seem to be, but still it’s something.</p>
<p>No required courses is pretty self-explanatory, but statistically ~60% of Echols scholars end up fulfilling all the area requirements within their four years at the University and through AP credits.</p>
<p>Is the school offering singleroom for Echols scholars?</p>
<p>Our son requires a single room due to asthma. My impression from the communication to date, which has been very supportive, is that you may have a problem if there isn’t a medical reason.</p>
<p>the housing people are very helpful, and you can request a single on your housing application. There are singles in Gooch/Dillard and a few in McCormick. Most of them (like mine) are in Hereford, but it looks like Hereford Complex is going to be for upperclassmen next year.</p>