@aklawyer1 100% yes. A letter rec is “recommended”, but recommended basically means yes when you’re applying to a school this prestigious. Even with COVID-19. I would recommend attending your professors’ office hours online in order to build those connections. The same is true if next year is online as well. You need to make yourself as competitive as possible, and that means submitting every “optional” item on the admissions checklist.
Hey @aklawyer1, I transferred from NOVA CC last year to get into McIntire. I didn’t include a letter of recommendation. If you could get one, you should, though. Doesn’t take much to ask for a professor you trust.
We hit 1k views! Good luck to everyone in the coming days!
Hey everyone,
Was wondering if anyone knows when McIntire transfer decisions usually come out. I’m currently a student at a Top 15 USNWR who applied for fall 2020 transfer; however, I haven’t got a single notification or email from UVA. Did anyone receive anything (admissions or financial aid notifications) from UVA yet? Thanks and best of luck everyone!
@Hopeful-TBivy Decisions will most likely be released this Friday based on prior years’ release dates.
Thank you @UVAyyy and @SelfmadeOrange for the input! @UVAyyy how did you go about asking your professor for a letter of rec for a different school? I would assume they had a weird reaction right?
@aklawyer1 Not really–transferring is decently common at any institution. I was attending my professor’s office hours for a couple weeks at this point and felt like we had a good bond and that I reflected myself well around her. I asked her and she said yes. Just regularly attend a professor’s office hours and see if you sense a “spark” lol.
@UVAyyy Thanks so much for the information! A bit nervous now but hopeful
@Hopeful-TBivy No problem and good luck!
Do you guys think they’ll increase the number of acceptances and waitlist excessively due to COVID-19? I’m hoping to get on the waitlist at least since I think I’ll be a TA for one of my courses and can add that to my letter of continued interest. Really hoping for an acceptance though because I can’t wait another couple months for a definitive answer LOL
On that note, do you guys think that full pay, in-state applicants will gain an advantage? Looking at the Applying to College subreddit, most if not all the applicants pulled off the waitlist so far from numerous schools were full pay, out-of-state people. Not sure how this translates to in-state…
Also, the fact that some schools are already pulling students off the waitlist for non-transfer admissions before the traditional enrollment deadline of May 1st (although some colleges have extended it) is crazy to me, although I’m not sure if this is consistent with prior years. Hopefully a good sign for transfer waitlisters…
@UVAyyy - whats up friend? lol
um, hate to burst ur bubble but statistically, it looks like they might DECREASE, not increase… just take UCLA for example. they accepted 5K last year out of 24k, this year it was 3.6k out of 26k…
large decrease bro ;-;
@heyigotnoclue OOF–Hopefully UCLA is an exception. I’m not familiar with normal transfer acceptance rates from other schools but based on non-transfer discissions on the Applying to College subreddit, there’s been a lot of pulling off the waitlist. Hopefully that’ll translate well for us. Are you aware of any other schools that have decreased the number of admissions for prospective transfers?
I have a feeling that my hypothesis posted above is correct, although of course there’s no way of telling…
@UVAyyy - sorry sorry late response.
yah, i hope so but im not sure, hopefully. I think a lot of the UC schools have decreased in numbers and they are doing waitlists instead of actually taking students as accepted.
LOL i think im already out of the running for mcintire cuz of the late interview so welp! oh wellz ! lets all wait and see.
@heyigotnoclue You’re good haha
I saw that Georgetown had fewer transfer applicants this year and accepted more of them. Being somewhat similar in rankings and location as UVA, hopefully there’s some type of correlation. I also saw that UVA has been pulling students off the waitlist for non-transfer students before the May 1st enrollment date, although idk what that means for us if anything.
Don’t count yourself out!! I’m sure the late submission isn’t that big of a deal. If it is, my interview was kinda shaky so we’ll be in the same boat haha. I’m sure some applicants didn’t even submit one. Good luck tomorrow! 
@UVAyyy - tbh i would consider georgetown to be much more difficult than UVA, given my own experience and rankings wise.
i think that my interview went awful so idek - i feel that we are both kinda in the limbo cuz we dont know what is happening, especially when mcintire takes only a few students. BEST OF LUCK TO U TOO!!!
@UVAyyy where did you happen to get the information about Georgetown? Based on the thread, it seems like there were 2,200 applicants compared to 2,600 last year (If I’m not wrong) and 120 that were accepted this year compared to 200 last year. I may be wrong but I was just wondering!
@hopeful1929 I was going through that thread and I thought I saw that there were only 100 transfer acceptances last year. I guess I mixed up my 1’s and 2’s lol. Sorry for the confusion!!
Update: on page 5 of that thread someone stated that there were 100 spots last year. I guess I stopped reading there so I apologize if that statement contradicted another statement later in the thread or what Georgetown officially posted about their numbers for last year.
Does anyone still have access to their Box account/file where they submitted their interview? I don’t. Not to freak anyone out but I was just wondering if that’s another “indication” of acceptance haha 
@UVAyyy - no, it does not work, because when i was late, it basically locked me out before so it doesnt work.