UVa Class of 2019 Regular Decision Results Thread

turnuptuesday
Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:21:23 +0000

SAT I (breakdown): 2150 (superscore) 2120 (highest composite)

1st: Math - 680 Reading - 720 Writing - 670
2nd: Math - 720 Reading - 690 Writing - 710

SAT II: Math 2 - 670 US History - 670

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.71
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 14/207
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus AB (3) Statistics (5) Macroeconomics (5) Microeconomics (4) U.S. History (4)

Senior Year Course Load: AP Government, AP Calc BC, AP English, Physics, Spanish 3, band, personal economics and finance, and computer applications

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, but that’s not really major…

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Marching Band 9th-12th (Brass Section Leader 10-12), Symphonic Band 9th-12th (Section leader 10th-12th, placing in district band all three years, 1st chair all county 11th-12th and all-state qualification 11th) JV Soccer 9th, Varsity Cross Country 10th-12th, Beta Club 9th-10th , Varsity Track 10th-12th ( 11th placed in the conference, regionally qualified, and qualified for 3A state track meet for 4x800 m relay team)

Job/Work Experience: Started my own business, was able to raise funding and set to launch very soon. Personally a very big accomplishment but the money raised was nothing crazy. Paid teaching assistant at elementary school, three hours a week senior year only. Volunteer/Community service:

Summer Activities: Research on alternative method of education called SOLE.

Essays: Common app essay was a very personal and emotional background story and explained where my drive came from. Wrote about Calculus being hard for the UVa challenge you faced question and about Bitcoin for the flash seminar one. Thought the flash seminar one was good, not great, and honestly didn’t like the one about Calculus.

Teacher Recommendation: One from my Stats teacher, he and I really got along and he’s a great person so probably wrote a very nice recommendation. Other from my physics teacher, he liked me because I did very well but I slept quite a bit in his class so I’m really not sure how that recommendation was.

Counselor Rec: Probably pretty generic

Additional Rec: Music teacher and I are very close so probably very good.

Other

State (if domestic applicant): VA
School Type: Public, smallish
Ethnicity: White (Middle Eastern)
Gender: M
Income Bracket: <$25,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, everything I’ve read said being Middle Eastern doesn’t count as URM.

Reflection: Very excited. I believe my test scores are in line with the average at UVa and of course being in state helps a ton. I was very worried about my SAT IIs and GPA pulling me down but it all worked out. UVa is definitely one of my top choices!

Strengths: SAT I and extracurriculars
Weaknesses: SAT IIs and GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Honestly as an OOS applicant I don’t think I would have been admitted, so probably because I was in state.

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Only been accepted to UVa and VCU so far, waiting on a bunch of others.

General Comments: Congrats to all of those who got in! UVa is a great school and the campus is beautiful, in all likely hood I’ll see you all there next fall! To those who had less than favorable decisions, things always happen for a reason. Situations become what you make of them and if you give it your all at whatever school you end up at you will succeed!