UVa admission stats

kyler242
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:20:15 +0000

GPA information is rarely good, because you never know who the poster is and where they come from.



We are in agreement that much of the GPA (and for that matter SAT, ACT, class rank, etc.) information provided by random posters on these boards is “rarely good”. That’s why I suggested to the OP and others who want “the most well rounded stat situation” and “stats that would equate to a good chance at getting in” to look at UVA’s website and common data set.



The only relevant information in terms of grades is class rank



Actually, according to UVA’s CDS, class rank and academic GPA are both considered “Very Important” in UVA’s “first-time, first- year, degree-seeking (freshman) admission decisions.” See question C7 at: http://www.web.virginia.edu/iaas/data_catalog/institutional/cds/current/admissions.htm



…it has already been expressed numerous times on these boards that you need a top 5% class rank to be remotely competitive OOS for UVA and top 10-15% for IS.



Great, that would reflect the data from question C10 in UVA’s common data set.



Essentially, GPA is a useless measure by itself, without reference to the class rank or the estimate of class rank (since not all schools provide a specific ranking).



Believe me, I know.



The best way to figure out your chances would be to just review chances or acceptances threads on this board.



Thanks for the laugh. To each his own I guess.



Pretty much everyone here has seen the CDS for one year or another, but it’s important to understand that reading posts by someone like cav’s on this board would give more information about one’s chances than reading the CDS, unfortunately.



lol, I’m sorry, but that is hilarious. No offense to Cavalier or anyone else on CC who chances people, but what they are doing is not magic, nor it is really all that scientific. They are just expressing an opinion that is based on the same data available to everyone else via common data sets. Again, if prospective applicants want to use Cavalier (or any other student on CC) as some sort of medium or conduit to the same information they could simply go out and find themselves, then I guess so be it.



It is tempting to think that sources like the CDS are great and all, because you think they are hard facts that show what it takes to get in. After all, that would be the rational way to go about it. However, this is one of the few instances that looking at a large amount of data isn’t as effective, mainly because of the very limited transparency of the admissions process (for obvious reasons).



OK, first of all, I would love to see the look on a UVA admission officer’s face if you told him/her that the CDS is not made up of “hard facts that show what it takes to get in”. That would be classic. Second, and this seems to be a theme throughout this thread, but if one prefers to look at a handful of highly skewed and sometimes inaccurate data that fills these CC threads, then that is there prerogative. A more reliable method, however, would be to consult the “large amount of data” courtesy of the CDS, and then draw one’s own intelligent and reasonable conclusions about chances of admittance.