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Hi! I feel really bad joining the loads of people who post in here pertaining to their academics when it comes to applying to UVA, but it is my dream school and I feel dreadful anxiety because of my stats.

I’m a rising senior. I go to a small rural private school. Black female, only black student in the high school. (In state) My first year of high school wasn’t horrible but I could have done better. I was going through a lot at home and it was just really rough overall. My overall high school gpa is 4.19 weighted, but my junior year gpa was 4.5 and I think my sophomore year is somewhat around that. I didn’t take any honors my freshman year and it was due to how my small my school is and how they set things up. To be in honors english, you have to be in honors math because of how the schedule works and when the classes take place. I wasn’t really good at math in the 8th grade so that messed me up even though I’m really good at english.

Sophomore year I think enough of our parents complained to change that. I was in Honors English and History, though not in honors biology or math. Over that summer I took Algebra II so I could move up a class.

My junior year classes were: AP Lang, APUSH, Honors Chemistry, Spanish 3, Honors Pre Calc. and a special semester class dealing with Brown v. Board since one of the cases that makes it up takes place in our town. With that, I should be working on a project to distribute shoes soon. I want to try to get it done by November because I plan to apply early action. I’ve tried to take the best possible classes available to me.

My SAT score was a 1210 and the average score at my school was a 1000. I’m also a part of the Envirothon club.

I’ve been trying to brainstorm my common app essay but I’m really anxious when it comes to getting in. I want to major in engineering. UVA is my dream school in every sense of the word and would be the best choice financially for my family 100%.

What could I do to improve?? I’ve heard Early action is better.

Happy Fourth of July weekend! In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I have just released the first-ever biographical video game about Thomas Jefferson, who founded UVA.

The game is called Important People of History: Presidents - Thomas Jefferson, and it's available on Steam.

This historically-accurate visual novel contains over 100 photos of places related to Thomas Jefferson, as those locations look today, including locations at UVA and around Charlottesville, such as:

• The UVA lawn
• Inside the Rotunda
• Edgar Allan Poe's UVA dorm room
• Jefferson's Monticello home
• The birthplace of Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis and Clark expedition, championed by Jefferson as President). Like Jefferson, Lewis was from Charlottesville
• The Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center in Charlottesville

There are also photos from other places in Virginia, such as:

• Colonial Williamsburg, where Jefferson went to college and later served as Governor of Virginia
• The spot in Richmond where Patrick Henry famously said "Give me liberty or give me death"

And of course there are photos of plenty of places related to the Declaration of Independence, like:

• Independence Hall, where the Declaration was signed
• The building where Jefferson wrote the Declaration
• The lap desk now in the Smithsonian on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration
• The National Archives, where the Declaration resides today
• The Jefferson Memorial, where the words of the Declaration are inscribed

If you're not familiar with visual novels, that's ok - there's a free demo so you can check it out.

I hope you enjoy!

P.S. There is also another game about fellow Virginian George Washington released the same day.

P.P.S. I have purposefully avoided linking to the game's store page on Steam. But it's easy enough to find if you want - as I said, it's the only Thomas Jefferson video game!

One of the reasons why I want to go to UVA is because I heard that they give 100% need based financial aid. I can’t pay for college at all. Would that mean that I can go for free? I’m really anxious about that because that could change my plans completely, and if it isn’t true, are there any scholarships I can apply for?

Visiting the campus Sunday with family and would love to see inside some of the buildings / classrooms / lecture halls. Any suggestions? Can you ask people around the campus to show you inside, and ask questions?

im so sorry if this isnt the place to ask 😭 ts kinda a chance-me post so like

as a rising senior could i get in here if im instate and early applicant with a weighted 4.39 gpa and 1480 sat

ill list my ecs if someone asks but i dont want to just yet in case this is not the place to ask

this is lwk the only school i wanna go to

thanks guys

i am a rising junior in hs and have my eyes set on uva (in state and most likely early decision) but am wondering if these stats would get me in:

gpa: expected 4.2 or 4.3 w and like 3.8/3.9 uw

sat: haven’t taken but prob will go test optional

ap’s: ap seminar, ap psych, ap precalc, ap lang, apush, ap research, ap business, another ap math senior year (either calc or stats), ap lit, ap env. sci, ap gov, ap euro, ap french (?)

extracurriculars: NHS, league soccer/hs soccer (varsity), private math tutor, summer camp counselor (3 summers), babysitter, leadership position in women’s history club, 2 other club involvements, model un and/or deca, volunteer youth soccer head coach for local league, possibly All Girls State Auxiliary Legion Program, and homeade candle making business

also expect that my essay will be very good

I am a rising electrical engineering freshman and I was wondering about the following.

1. Does UVA have any credit for prior learning policies besides that for AP and IB.
2. Who would be a good professor to run some of my independent research by?
3. Any recommendations on how I should approach triple majoring in pure math, EE, and physics and still graduating early?

Context for Q1 and Q3
I graduated from my high school with associates in: general engineering, physics, and applied mathematics. This was done independently from the high school, not through programs like dual enrolment so it was a headache to get even one class approved.

However, my transfer credits look like they will be getting me at least 1.5 years off at least EE. Currently its around 1 year, but they haven't processed all my transfer credits yet. I'm not entirely sure about the other majors yet as I wasn't able to find a clear class planning template for them.

I am also a bad non-class-test test taker (partially due to testing anxiety and narcolepsy) so my 3 AP scores aren't high enough to transfer, and I couldn't find any policy for UVA taking my CLEP Chemistry score (I got a 60 something on a 20-80 metric which was good enough for the community college).

With this being said I have been self studying the UW ME564/565 lectures by Steve Brunton as well as Complex Analysis by Richard E Brocherds both on Youtube. I should be done with both lectures some where around the 15th of July. Afterwards Im planning on watching Signals and Systems by Alan Oppenheim, Algebraic Topology from Math at Andrews University which is based on Allen Hatchers textbook, and if I have time Advanced Astrodynamics by Dmitry Savransky (all of these are free on Youtube). I have also been reading "Solving Linear Systems An Analysis of Matrix Prefactorization Iterative Methods" by Zbigniew Ignacy Woznicki which I hope to finish not long after the school year starts.

I'm hoping to use my background in these courses to try to graduate / take classes at a faster pace, but I'm not entirely sure how or what would be the best course of action. My initial thought would be to just take higher course loads but that doesn't seem feasible long term and risks burn out.

Context for Q2

Last semester I also did research on "Modeling Electromagnetic Forces on Ferromagnetic Bodies and Electromagnetic Applications in Normal-Force Reduction for Noise Mitigation in Rail Systems" for which I wrote a ~20 page paper and gave a 30 minute presentation. The main outcome of the project was an equation I made that I would like to verify. It came out of the Kelvin Force Magnetization Density eq and Biot-Savart's Law.

Hi Dillard dorms. I am a pretty chill guy but into playing sports and watching sports. How hard will it be to meet people? I really wish they let people Seiect hall versus suite. I am an engineering major. Any advice?

Don’t really like the food, I feel I can feed myself with ~120 per week. With the cheapest plan I’d pay $25 per meal. It makes more sense in my opinion to just skip the meal plan altogether and just go out to eat when I don’t feel like doing meal prep. What are your thoughts?

im an incoming first year (out-of-state) and this whole health insurance thing is really overwhelming. i know the student health plan is near 4000 per year and thats more than i can afford as a low income student, and i wont be turning 18 till december so getting private health insurance for myself isnt an option either. if anyone's been in a similar situation i would love your help!!! im kind of at a loss here :(

I was just wondering if any local students have good recs for food or stuff to do? we were having trouble figuring out restaurants and sure we can look at google but I wanna know what actual locals like? thank uu

Does anyone have any suggestions for resolving Vault me Issues? I paid for the data transfer and received a migration ID, but when I check the status, no progress is being made. The migration status has been stuck on ready for the past hour, and the whole process is estimated to take four and a half hours.

I tried contacting support, but unfortunately they only have an email address, so I’m worried that they will not get back to me soon enough and the process will not complete before our accounts expire at 11:59 PM today.

Any advice will help. Thank you!

just wondering

Hi, I'm an incoming first year at UVA and I am currently looking around for classes to take. I was wondering what some of your guys' favorite classes have been throughout your years at UVA.