UVA Fall 2019 Transfer Thread

Does anyone know if Psychology is a competitive major at UVA?

@rmma123 yeh I applied to psych as well. I just got invited to the Golden Keys International Honours Society, should I send this in as a new honors thing?

I think that would help your application a lot so I would send it to them if I were you

Does anyone applying to McIntire have ā€œInquiry Access Deniedā€?

@Greek31kid I applied to McIntire and have ā€œInquiry Access Denied.ā€

Congrats! According to last years thread, that means you’re in.

@Greek31kid I hope so–obviously can’t be certain until we get the decisions in! I’ll post my stats after work tonight or tomorrow.

Congrats! According to last years thread, you’re in.

Does anyone who hasn’t submitted a FASFA have ā€œinquiry access deniedā€? I didn’t submit one and mine says ā€œfinancial aid not foundā€. But also, there’s no financial aid found at my own current school either since I haven’t submitted it.

@Rjlake33 I have not submitted FAFSA and have ā€œfinancial aid not foundā€. I’m really hoping that the whole ā€œinquiry access deniedā€ thing is for the people applying for financial aid…

I just got an email saying my 2018-2019 (this year??) financial aid is updated. Then I checked SIS, nothing on 2018-2019 but 2019 and 2020 both say inquiry access denied. I just read through last years thread. Is this serious? I only saw people who got in mention that they had inquiry access denied, but no data from waitlisted and rejected students. I know that they just sent out the freshman admission decisions, so does that mean that the admissions committee is already making transfer decisions?

This is the first time I’ve looked at SIS since I applied from High School last year, so I don’t know if my Fin. Aid status changed from something else or if it’s normal for it to say ā€œinquiry access deniedā€.

For those who are seeing inquiry access denied, does it show you financial aid year, or anything else?

So, I’m trying not to get bogged down in this whole SIS thing because of course the admissions department reads different geographic areas at different rates, there are people applying to transfer as second years, as third years, and in all sorts of different areas of specialty, etc. However, since my daughter never got the email about setting up the SIS portal (the continued use of which for application candidates is unclear now that there is the Application Portal), I’m coming to it all late. She was waitlisted last year. There is nothing on her SIS about financial aid info from 2018 or any other year. Under ā€œView Financial Aidā€ and ā€œSelect Aid Year to Viewā€ there is nothing other than ā€œthere is no financial information found.ā€ She didn’t apply for financial aid and I don’t know what it might have said last year. Odd that some people can see info from previous years. I think I’m going to hope that they just haven’t gotten to her file yet and that the lack of ā€œaccess deniedā€ thing isn’t fatal :wink:

I feel the same way @l2kids! We still have a month to go anyway. I’m kind of skeptical about the whole thing.

@busybee1234 I hope so too. For my sake, if you get denied with those stats I have no chance at all lol

I also applied for financial aid and have ā€œno financial information foundā€, wondering if I should be concerned…?

I have ā€œNo financial aid info foundā€ as well but didn’t apply for fin aid.

im so scared now lol, my friend has inquiry access denied and i still have no financial aid found omgomg

I applied for financial aid and my portal says, ā€œThere is no financial aid info availableā€ I have no idea what this means. I’m a Mcintire applicant all I care about is the phone interview. If you do not receive the phone interview, you are not getting in from what I’ve heard.

Hey everyone, I said yesterday that I’d post my stats so here they are:
I’m applying to UVA as a 3rd-year transfer from a university with a 5-year program and a quarter system. I am a 3rd-year at my current university.

Applying to McIntire for Finance

Stats:
Ethnicity/Gender: White, Male
GPA: 3.98
Credits Completed: 96, 19 in progress (since I’m on a quarter system each is worth less at UVA, so ~80 credits equivalent)

ECs:
-Founder and Treasurer of Watch Enthusiast group
-Founder and President of open discussion/debate group focused on controversial economic, political, and social topics
-Member and Mentor for one of my uni’s learning communities, helping incoming students transition from HS to college; as member, worked with universities in England on joint projects and cases; lived with students from all over the world
-Member of university’s Finance group; responsible for key research on fixed income markets

Work Exp:
-Portfolio Management/Trading intern at major firm (multiple trillions AUM); helped team manage over $6bn in assets; was given my own portfolios to manage about a month in, around $400mm
-Credit Analyst at boutique firm; analyzed corporate debt structures for rating recs; performed research to help guide overall portfolio strategy
-Founder and Portfolio Manager of nationwide student-run fund; manage $100k of internal assets; direct team of 10 analysts on due diligence, modeling, and pitches

Letter of Rec:
-English professor (knows me very well, have taken 3 courses with her)

Essays:
Probably the best I’ve ever written, showed to alum who cried because he missed being on Grounds so much.