<p>My friend knows some of the admissions people at UVA, and they say that UVA is likely to overadmit Early Action applicants because they have no previous data on admissions for this new date. This, in turn, will decrease the amount of spots available for the Regular Decision applicants. Can anyone confirm/deny this?</p>
<p>Dean J probably knows, but there’s no way she would admit it if what you say is true.</p>
<p>Students admitted EA would also be given the nod for acceptance for RD too. In reality EA is for those students that would normally be admitted RD and for them to feel committed to attend UVa sooner. Over admitting EA in reality makes no difference in the long run.</p>
<p>Can you define “overadmit” for me? I have never heard that term before. </p>
<p>With most college applications being submitted right around the deadline these days, it’s hard for anyone to be saying what’s happening at any school this many weeks out.</p>
<p>EDIT: howdoudo989, I noticed that you told another user that there are regional quotas at UVa. There are no quotas for different regions within Virginia. There are a lot of “experts” on college admission out there. It’s best to check these sorts of things by calling the Office of Admission. :)</p>
<p>I think everyone is forgetting the the fact that his “friend knows some of the admissions people at UVA”…</p>
<p>Howdoyoudo seems to be confusing early decision vs. early action. At many private universities, it is easier to be admitted through binding early decision, which sometimes doesn’t leave room for many regular decision students. Sometimes at other universities, literally half the class is admitted early decision.</p>
<p>However, UVa is doing early action. The new UVa standards haven’t been made public. However, at most other universities, early action is for the top applicants. The applicants who are not at the top of the applicant pool typically are deferred to the regular admissions cycle. </p>
<p>Therefore, the only thing that should change is that UVa may have a higher yield of its most qualified applicants. This is because UVa will be on more equal footing vs. other universities in having more months to lobby the best students to attend UVa. </p>
<p>Up until now, some colleges have had 6 or more months to invite their top admitted students to special events, while UVa applicants are still worrying about whether they will get in.</p>
<p>I just realized that what I wrote earlier does not make sense. If Dean J & Co. knew this was likely to happen, they would adjust accordingly.</p>
<p>I want to take the SAT II as an out of state applicant, and I believe my scores for the SAT II may help me because of a less strong other section of my application. Should I apply EA without my SAT II’s, or wait and apply on January 1? </p>
<p>I know Maryland takes 90% of the freshman class from EA, but that may be because 5x more people apply on the EA deadline. Or, if the give some priority to those who apply earlier, I am not sure what I should do.</p>
<p>@ Praying4Luck,</p>
<p>This is the first year UVa has done Early Action so there is no historical data to give you any guidance. You could certainly pose this question to Dean J on her blog at [Notes</a> from Peabody: The UVA Application Process](<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/]Notes”>http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/) , or better yet call the admissions office and seek guidance directly from the ‘Dean of the Day’. Best of luck!</p>
<p>I don’t know if you guys are aware of this, but UVa had gotten 11,417 early action applications – that’s 9,000 more early applicants this year than it did back in 2007 when it last offered an early decision. That said, I don’t know if UVa needs to “over-admit”. This makes me wonder though how many people are planning to apply regular decision.</p>
<p>[The</a> Flock of Early Birds Keeps Growing - Head Count - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/the-flock-of-early-birds-keeps-growing/29334]The”>Head Count: The Flock of Early Birds Keeps Growing)</p>
<p>The most motivated and most qualified students probably applied early action. I would guess some of the more marginal applicants are the types who wait until the final deadline. </p>
<p>Early action is much much more attractive to applicants than binding early decision. Therefore, it would make sense that early action would attract many more applicants than early decision did when it was offered</p>
<p>Very interesting article, Globalist. I wonder how other similar schools that offer non-restrictive early action numbers thus far. For example, how many applications did UNC, BC, etc. receive? Didn’t UMich go to EA last year as well? One thing’s for certain, I’m glad I’m not Dean Roberts or Dean J – I’d hate to have to try and figure out how many to admit now vs. RD. Throw on top the ratio of OOS/IS, gender, race, etc. – what a daunting puzzle! Yikes!</p>
<p>Yeah, according to the article, UVa Admissions Dean Roberts is quote to say:</p>
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<p>So, it looks like UVa is less likely to over-admit.</p>
<p>is this high school in China or Singapore? cuz that’s the only place I can think that would have such a high applicant growth rate.</p>
<p>(do internationals even get to apply early action?)</p>
<p>Nope, you’re mistaken.</p>
<p>Of course international students can apply early.</p>
<p>EA notifications are projected for release no later than 31 Jan 12. Will UVA make notifications any earlier than that? Say…sometime in December?</p>
<p>IF we are able to notify early, I’ll post about it on the admission blog.</p>
<p>Tidewater - As nice as that would be, I believe Dean J has made it quite clear it will be in January. They received 11,000+ apps for EA - certainly they will need until January to holistically review that many applications.</p>
<p>dwhite - Which of Dean J’s comments in this thread prior to 7 Dec indicate quite clearly that EA notifications will be made in January?</p>
<p>Just read this: [Notes</a> from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Early Action Notification (a “no update” update)](<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2011/12/early-action-notification-no-update.html]Notes”>Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Early Action Notification (a "no update" update))</p>