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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:19 am
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Be sure to write convincing Why Mich/Penn/UVA essays for all three schools. I would disagree with the fact that UVA only cares about numbers. If you're out of state, UVA almost exclusively accepts those who wrote Why essays. Their OOS acceptance rate is ridiculously low (in the single digits).KMaine wrote:In at Michigan, WL at VA with those #s a couple of years ago. Was not intereeted in Penn. Do a good job with your Michigan application. VA will only care about your numbers. Good luck!
absolutazn87 wrote:Be sure to write convincing Why Mich/Penn/UVA essays for all three schools. I would disagree with the fact that UVA only cares about numbers. If you're out of state, UVA almost exclusively accepts those who wrote Why essays. Their OOS acceptance rate is ridiculously low (in the single digits).KMaine wrote:In at Michigan, WL at VA with those #s a couple of years ago. Was not intereeted in Penn. Do a good job with your Michigan application. VA will only care about your numbers. Good luck!
Prospective students should keep in mind that the University of Virginia is a publicly-funded university. Consequently, it reserves 40 percent of its seats for residents and the remaining 60 percent for nonresidents. This leaves nonresidents at a slight disadvantage, which is discussed in more detail below.
Virginia Residents:
Dean Trujillo insists, “There is no particular “boost” given to residents. But residents have mathematics on their side.” In fact, there are “over nine nonresident applications for every resident application.” So, out of 7,880 applications in 2008, about 7,000 were from nonresidents. The ratio of resident to nonresident admittance is 60 to 40, so “nonresidents get only 1.5 seats for every resident seat in the entering class,” which is a huge boon for resident applicants.
Still, there are no special considerations given to Virginia residents who do not meet the school’s high LSAT and GPA standards. A sizable number of highly qualified applicants live in Virginia, and Trujillo lets it be known that “the medians between the pools are not statistically distinguishable.” This has led him to “joke that getting in…is ridiculously difficult (for nonresidents) rather than just being plain hard (for residents).”
Retakelawbound2014 wrote:Lets say I were to strike out at both UVA and UM, what are my chances to get Cornell, presuming I apply early september?
Probably 50/50 at Cornell, depending on the strength of the applicant pool and the strength of your application.lawbound2014 wrote:Lets say I were to strike out at both UVA and UM, what are my chances to get Cornell, presuming I apply early september?