"Too Good To Ever Come Here=Waitlist"

Colleges & Universities University of Virginia
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<p>I am international with a 2130 SAT and I got in…</p>

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<p>I know a lot of people with great SAT scores and terrible grades. (Then again, I also know many people who have great SATs and grades)</p>

<p>I feel like grades, SATs, and classes are just the first step to an application. It’s “can they handle being here?” But there are probably way too many people that could handle the work at UVA, and there aren’t enough spots for everyone. So the admissions officers look at the other stuff, like ECs and essays. </p>

<p>Here’s an entry in the blog that I thought was interesting.
[Notes</a> from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Let’s talk about perfection](<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2010/03/lets-talk-about-perfection.html]Notes”>Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Let's talk about perfection)</p>

<p>The IS:OOS ratio kind of sucks for out of state-ers, but it’s not UVA’s policy. It’s the state’s policy, so UVA can’t do anything about it.</p>

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<p>Yeah, but the OOS policy in VA is particularly tough for those of us who live in a state without many top-notch public colleges. I’m from Maryland and all we really have in way of that is UMD College Park. It’s even tougher for kids from tiny states like Delaware. I’m not saying the policy is wrong, but it definitely cuts us off at the knees if our states don’t have many good places to go.</p>

<p>(Disclaimer: Dunno if I’m in UVA yet or not, the website’s not really working well for me. I’m predicting either waitlisted or rejected, but we’ll see.)</p>

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<p>Also, Stupefy: I have a friend who got a 2390 on the SAT. His GPA is like a 3.4 and weighted around a 3.7. This is probably unusual, but good SATs don’t always mean a good transcript. Some kids are just really good testers and that’s about it.</p>

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<p>gilmorelove4life: “it reeealllyy helps to be in-state. I got waitlisted last year, accepted to all the UC’s, Cornell, and Johns Hopkins. I’m betting I was good enough for UVa, but they give their residents priority. No hard feelings though…I wish berkeley would do the same”.</p>

<p>gilmorelove4life: CA does the same. The acceptance rate for out-of-state for Berkeley is much lower than UVA, 17.6% non residents.</p>

<p><a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Stupefy- the process for determining Jeff Scholars is totally different from the one determining regular admission. the people looking at the Jeff applications don’t even necessarily communicate with the other admissions people. this explains the aberrations that have been discussed.</p>