You can use this post as a space to
make comments or ask questions about the wait list.
If you are interested in staying on
the waiting list, please make sure you click the button labeled “remain on the
wait list.” If you don’t do this, we
will not review your file again in the future. Once you’ve clicked it, that does the
trick. This page stays the same after you click the button
in case you change your mind at a later date. So, if you change your mind
and want to leave the waiting list, please come back and decline the spot.
After the admissions deposit
deadline of May 15, we’ll begin to look to see how many students we can take
off the waiting list. These numbers vary
from year to year and unfortunately, it can be a long process. We won’t make
any decisions on May 16th.
There is a bit of a wait. Why? Because we have to wait for your final exams to end, and for you to send us updated grades. We hope to make our decisions by the end of
June however. Offers are usually made in waves.
How do we make these decisions? We absolutely need to see your transcripts
listing your spring 2016 grades. In
short, send us your final transcript. Trust me. If you want us to look at
your file again, send it along. You’ll
want to do this, but only after your exams are completed and ALL of your grades
are posted. You’d be surprised how many
people send us blank transcripts. To send this transcript, please use the same
address that appears on the right panel of this blog. Ideally, you would
want to get these to us by the first week of June, but there is still time
after that period. We know there can be extenuating circumstances. If you were
not taking classes this spring, feel free to send a note/email/letter of
continued interest to undergradadmission@virginia.edu.
If your grades are strong, this may
help you earn the offer, but we can’t offer to everyone from the wait list, so
we’ll be looking at the strongest candidates.
If you earned poor grades this past spring, it would be difficult for us
to admit you.
The waiting list is divided by school –
Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Architecture, Nursing, Batten, Commerce,
Kinesiology. So, you are only on a waiting
list for that particular program. It is
not ranked, and it is only made up of students who elected to remain on the
waiting list. That’s why we can’t give a
firm number of right now. It seems to be,
historically, that 20% of the applicants are offered a spot on the wait list, but
not everyone stays.
If you are offered admission from
the waiting list and need financial aid information in order to make your
decision, we will do our best to help you with this. If you post here, please be considerate of
each other’s feelings, emotions, reactions and the like. We will delete any
inappropriate commentary. Good luck all!
