HI! I’m a senior at a very small school called Buffalo Gap High School in Swoope, Virginia, and the University of Virginia is my dream school. In a senior class of 120 students, I am third in my class.I have a weighted 4.3 GPA, and a 4.0 unweighted GPA. I got a 1250 score on the new SAT. I will have taken four AP classes by the time I graduate. I am captain of the varsity sideline cheer team, which I have been on for five years, and captain of the varsity competition cheer team. I have been the Public Relations Officer in SCA for my senior class for two years. I am also the spirit committee chairperson for my school. In addition, I am a Peer Mentor at my school. I am applying to the Nursing program, which I know is very competitive at UVa. Chance me please! Thank you. 
Your SAT is several rungs below the 25th percentile of admitted students. While your GPA and transcript seem solid, that really hurts you. Can you retake SAT or ACT once more? I think your current SAT is a deal breaker.
Look at the CDS, section C.
Do you have access to Naviance? The historical admissions data from your high school is the best indicator. UVA cares much more about grades than test scores.
Not many students from my school apply to UVa. From the senior class last year only one student applied and he was admitted
At my daughter’s NoVA HS, over the past 6 years, UVA accepted approx 250 of 800. Lots of data. The average final weighted GPA is 4.22, and looking at the data, I see acceptances around that GPA that go as low as ~1150 (converted to 1600 scale). If you went to my daughter’s school and had a UW 4.0, I’d say you’d have a shot with a 1250. If you are coming from a school that doesn’t typically send kids to UVA…it boosts your chances even more. I’d say your odds are at least 50-50 and maybe better. If you can boost your SATs it would probably help.
The admission officers at UVA will know something about your school, even if it’s pretty small. If you’ve taken about as rigorous a group of courses as you could and have gotten those grades in them, that will really help a lot. To whatever extent you haven’t, it won’t help as much.
If you’ve only taken the SAT once or twice, taking it again might help. The next test date is Dec. 3 (which leaves little time for doing much studying). And the one after is Jan. 23., which is later than recommended. (They might consider those scores if you put down UVA when you register, but maybe not.) If you think you can focus on one of part of your scores and maybe get it up 20-40 points, it could be worth the effort to sign up soon for the test. Good luck!
Thank you everyone. I already applied early action so there’s no way to improve my SAT now.
If you end up being deferred In January, they will look at any updated scores. (As would, of course, any school you applied to RA.) Last year for EA of Virginia residents, about half got accepted and a quarter each were deferred or rejected.
I understand, though, that taking the SAT again in a few weeks when it is unclear if it could help is not too enticing.
UVA considers GPA/course rigor as their number 1 factor so I think you have a solid chance!
^ I think you have a great chance too. Good luck and keep us posted.
We do not base admission decisions on GPAs, as they vary from school to school. We make decisions using the entire transcripts, recommendations, essays, activities, and testing.
Last year, we admitted about 42% of Virginia residents.
@"Dean J What was last year’s EA OOS admission rate? Thanks
@ Dean J, you do take class rank into account though, right?
@bigPapiofthree, I have published this on the blog twice a year, but you can also see charts of admission stats broken down by residency on our website: http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/iaas/instreports/studat/hist/admission/first_by_residency.htm
@cheergirl2017 If rant is provided, we’ll look at it, but the methodology is important. Just as with GPAs, the way these numbers are generated vary from school to school.