So... What are my chances?

EatwillBAux-K
Thu, 28 May 2015 02:03:36 +0000

UVA OOS has always been very competitive. If you look around in CC you will see plenty of OOS kids who got rejected from UVA but get in top tier schools. Similarly, I have also seen kids who get rejected from UMichigan(which also favors in state kids) but get in Stanford. Also,UVA’s OOS admissions pool includes applicants with various hooks – athletes, minority candidates and legacies (who get considered at a selectivity level comparable to IS applicants). So the chances of an “unhooked” OOS applicant are going to less than the stated 25%(OOS acceptance rate)

Since you are a citizen, then UVa does offer 100% FA(didn’t see Egyptian-American parts). However, you still won’t get any FA from UCB

Edit:
UPenn (ED legacy): reach, but legacy is nice.
Cornell: reach
Berkeley:low reach,high match
CMU: reach. Quite unpredictable
JHU: low reach/high match
NYU: match
UVA: reach