UVa admission stats

kyler242
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:16:52 +0000

Yes, they are hard facts, but they don’t tell you what it takes to get in.



I guess this is in the eye of the beholder.



I’m assuming you’re a high schooler or a first year



That would be quite a faulty assumption on your part.



However, after spending a couple of years on this general topic of admissions, you come to realize that the admissions officers are quite smart, and you really learn very little by reading from raw data since they’ve masked admissions well. The low transparency regarding the numbers it takes to get in is fairly essential, in their view, mainly due to the problems it would create if everyone derived a definitive preconceived notion about the GPA, Rank, SAT, etc that they need to get into UVA or other schools. That’s how they fool you into thinking your GPA is ‘very important’, because we both know that makes no sense since they are publishing weighted GPAs (which obviously vary from ridiculously high weight to no weight at all depending where you are form) in the CDS which have no bearing at all other than towards your class rank.



No debating that adcoms are quite smart. But, as to the value of the factual data in the CDS and the conclusions that might be drawn from that, I guess we will have to agree to disagree.



Any sort of rationalization you perform on that data set is essentially wasted time.



Speak for yourself.



If you continue to stick around and view chances/acceptances threads for a couple years, you’ll see what I mean. Experience is the best thing to possess regarding this topic, and that’s why I said it was better to review old chances threads, as long as you are able to sort out the good info (experienced) from the bad.

A couple of years are really not required. I have not seen many old chance threads that vary too greatly from what the CDS would have reasonably predicted. Have you? There may be an outlier here of there, but that would be expected given that college admit decisions can sometimes be unpredictable.