UVa ED and Affirmative Action

Tuba_Guy
Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:34:30 +0000

I applied ED for UVa. Im curious as to what yall will think of my chances. Here are some highlights:

Top 5% out of 550 size class
3.9 GPA
Several Ap/Honors/Pre Ap classes throughout school
Excellent Musician (first chair UT summer music program, Texas State Solo Ensemble Contest, other awards exceeding half a page)

All State Debate (varsity for 4 years, numerous awards, championships, national bids, etc. List exceeds half a page)

NHS, SHS, Homecoming Court, Debate Team Captain, Marching Band Section leader, Model United Nations, Football (fish year only), Church Technology Assistant, great recommendations from counselor, coach, band director.

Killer essays. Everyone who read them gave them amazing praises. Non Stock, Original, funny, and everything you could ask for in one. I wrote 3.
(if you wanna see, pm me)

The BAD part…590 CR 550 M 580 W on Sat. I took NO sat subjects. YEAH.

However, I am about as minority as you can get. I am a hispanic male from san antonio, texas. Not many (none, to my knowledge) from my school have attended or applied to UVa. Affirmative Action, as UVa states, places me in consideration as a legacy admission or a lucky son of a gun whos parents donated money to the school.

So what do yall think my shots are?

(Sats BAD, Everything else GREAT, plus ive got AA going for me.)