<p>I started on, completed, and submitted my application on the day I believed to be the deadline (jan 3, although they moved it up to jan 24 the next day.) At the end of february, I received a “likely letter,” informing me that the admissions committee had been impressed by my application, that they thought I would fit in well at UVA, and that they hoped I would visit and consider attending UVA in april. It didn’t explicitly say that I’d been accepted, but it was fairly obvious. Then, on March 15, I checked my emails and found the following message:</p>
<p>"On behalf of the Committee on Admission, it is my great pleasure to offer you
admission to the University of Virginia and to invite you to join the Echols
Scholars Program. We will host a special open house program for admitted Echols
Scholars on Monday, April 4th and hope that you will be able to attend. </p>
<p>Please visit the web page below to learn more about Echols Day on the Lawn:
<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/echols.html[/url]”>http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/echols.html</a></p>
<p>We look forward to welcoming you on the 4th.</p>
<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p>John A. Blackburn
Dean of Admission
University of Virgina"</p>
<p>For the rest of the applicant pool, I believe decisions were online on march 31 or april 1, and letters were mailed around the same time. My acceptance package was a slightly-larger-than-normal envelope (although not one of the full-sized ones that other schools use.) I lingered on the decision of where to go until april 30 and finally decided to mail my deposit down to Charlottesville.</p>