Total number of applications: 18,531
Total number of VA apps: 7,355
Total number of OOS apps: 11,176
Overall offer rate: 35.7% (6,628 total offers)
Overall VA offer rate: 45.8% (3,372 offers)
Overall OOS offer rate: 29% (3,256 offers)
Enrollment goal: 3,170 first-year students with roughly 2,092 being from VA
The offers numbers for VA and OOS are similar because yield for OOS is generally lower and we need to offer to more students to get the number that we need to enroll.
Overall applications were up slightly, but international applications were up 21%.
Is it 6 PM yet?
31 comments:
i can't believe there are more out-of-state applicants than the in-state ones. why so?
Because UVA rocks =)
so so sos os so so nervous .. instate applicant it's like flipping a coin.......
How many of those people received 'likely' letters? And how many of those who received 'likely' letters got into the Echols Scholars program? Just wondering!
Thanks for the stats. For some of us, we are really intrigued by all it. :) 1 hour and 44 minutes! Hope the best to all. UVA is the BEST!
Totally off topic but is the blog set to Central time? I'm posting this at 4:18pm EST but I'll be it shows as 3:18 PM on the blog.
Let me not forget to add my thanks to you, J
I believe Blogger didn't adjust when we "sprung forward" an hour a few weeks ago.
hope UVA observes Daylight Savings Time or we've got an extra hour (ha, ha)
I just did a tweak to see if DST could be accounted for.
Testing...testing.
Dean J, do you try to take at least 1 person from every state if that is an option?
1 hour 28 minutes. I'm sooooooooo nervous.
Looking at the http://www.virginia.edu/stats&facts site and wondering why you wait-listed 4,000 people last year when it has consistently been under 200 that got in from a wait list. I understand that you don't know how many people will accept the waitlist and how many will accept and come to UVA, but the number still seems very high.
Thank you for keeping everyone informed.
Hey Dean J... I've been wondering about something for a while and was hoping you could help.
When a college signs athletes from out of state, does this number contribute to the out of state percentage, or is there a certain number of athletes a college is allowed to sign that is already figured in?
Thanks again for the blog, it's been such an amazing help!
"Nothing gives one person so great advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." --Thomas Jefferson
Good luck everyone
Anon, we don't play games to get all the states represented. If it happens, great. If not, that's fine. We were missing Delaware for a while!
Anon, please see the waitlist post when it shows up in about an hour.
John, we consider athletes residents of their home state and don't have them in a special category. I remember hearing that the State of North Carolina allows their schools to count scholarship athletes as in-state students, but I'm not certain that it is true and don't know if it is in practice.
In your stats above, which offer pool includes out of state legacies?
Thanks for this blog, by the way! I've enjoyed reading it (even after my kid decided to get somewhere other than UVA!)
Regardless of where mom and dad went to school, out of state students are out of state students. I imagine the Alumni Association runs statistics on alumni children.
Dean J, they do, but they also say that out of state legacy kids are considered instate for admissions purposes. That's why I asked.
Anyways, thank you for taking the time to do this blog and respond so actively to comments. I think your blog is one of the most interesting views of the colleges admissions process available. It is an incredibly valuable resource for students and parents.
Ah, I understand, Anon. The legacies have had a similar offer rate to Virginians in the past, which is why it's convenient to say they are considered "in state". The University, though, sees those students as out of state.
Man, if I could only play basketball as well as Lebron James (no college at all), I would have no problem of getting in UVA. What disturbs me even more is, even if I should get accepted and graduate 2012. Lebron will still be making more money than my Bachelors/Masters degree. Sorry, just really nervous.
Hi Dean J,
What are the admissions stats for the Nursing School? Thanks!
She already said she's giving us all the numbers she has.
If you look at the waitlist stats from last year, they offered 4,000, but far less actually accepted a spot (somewhere in the 1000 range, don't remember exactly and I can't find the post). If they only offered it to 2,000, they could very well not have anyone on the waitlist! That just guarantees they will have a list to choose from, as who knows, they could have to take 500 from it if needed. It's a hard game to play for admissions, and they need as many open options as they can get.
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Cheers to 17 min 36 secs!
Cheers to 3170 of my newest best friends!
Dean J:
Thanks for the stats--but do you have stats from Virginia by region? The "rumor" that only 30 percent of Northern Virginians who apply to UVA are accepted by UVA is pretty much seen as a "fact" here in Northern Virginia, and I'm guessing from your recent stats that that's why so many of the Old Dominion's "Best and Brightest" don't apply. I'm surprised you had never heard the 30 percent rumor. There is a great deal of enmity toward UVA up here on the banks of the Potomac. I was told by a UVA alum from Northern Virginia that you can pretty much tell that UVA subdivides the state by looking at the dorm population. She said that on any given hall, you can just do the math and it comes out this way: 1/3 Northern Virginia, 1/3 everyone else from the Old Dominion, 1/3 out of state.
Thanks for responding,
NOVA Mom
awww cavdog's so cute!!!!
Hey nova mom:
I'm from Fairfax County and I've never heard the 30% thing. My own guidance counselor knows the admissions people at UVA and even she doesn't know how things are going to work sometimes. I doubt some alumni knows more than her.
I hate to complain, I did get likely letters from many Ivy Schools, but I don't know what happened to UVA. I was disappointed not to get a likely letter and now not offered acceptance to the Echols Program. And now I don't think I got into UVA at all. I don't like the cold, and would have considered UVA if they would have seemed to take a better interest in me. I’m a Virginian resident and am just a little disappointed with the decision. It’s hard to believe UVA is more competitive than Ivy League Schools.
DEAN J. ....... Can you tell us how many In-State Wait List letters went out so we know the potential maximum size of the In-State Wait List pool if everyone sends in the postcard?
And some people I know had numbers associated with their notification; mine just said Wait List??? And then went on to say that the remaining Wait List pool was NOT ranked??? Do the numbers mean anything?
Jake:
My friend got into Columbia but waitlisted at UVA..don't know how that happens....
Dean J...What is up with this waitlist numbered ranking?
NOVA Mom, what you've heard are rumors. While we love our alumni, they do not work in our office and can't speak with much authority about our practices. The next time someone tries to tell you how admission works at UVa, I hope you'll tell the person to call us and get the facts.
The composition of the waitlist changes every year, so quoting stats isn't going to help in trying to predict how big it will be and who will be on it.
The waitlist is not numbered or ranked.
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