maybe a dumb question, but for the "Please list any and all future activities in clinical work, shadowing, research, or community service that you plan to pursue in the upcoming year" secondary, are you guys just listing for ur future activities or writing a narrative? I was just going to use my gap year experiences, which include both past and current experience since I graduated, but idk if they only want future activities.

I just listed future and current experiences but I'm not sure what they want

Praying for all of you (and myself) to receive an II tomorrow. Let God deliver us to Charlottesville

how stats driven are they? see they have stats on par with stanford, harvard, cornell etc.

uva is amazing but of course stanford is much more highly ranked and desirable, must mean they might be admitting applicants with less 'amazing ecs'?

Very stat heavy school but you’re right that they lose a lot of applicants to other top tier schools. I’ve heard from a friend who was an M4 helping with admissions a few cycles ago, that they tend to be a bit more forgiving of stats for Virginia residents with good fit (decent chance of an interview in December-February later in their cycle), which makes sense.

good fit? what does that mean

They’re a public medical school in Virginia so part of their mission is training physicians to stay in Virginia. Naturally in-state students will be recruited to fill that need. UVA tends to admit high stat in state applicants above their median (520) in their early interview rounds. But of the 900ish in state apps they receive, those uber high MCAT scores may still be pretty hard to come by versus an out of state pool that is larger and contains a plethora of high stat candidates to pick from.

To receive funding from the state, they need a certain % of VA residents, so that’s when they turn to your 510-515 MCAT in state candidates in their later interview rounds. This is where their II—>A conversion falls off significantly and the chance of waitlist is much higher. This is what my friend who used to be an M4 involved in admissions had said from a few cycles ago so things definitely could’ve changed, but take it with a grain of salt.

TLDR; Good fit is subjective but being a Virginia resident helps to fit a specific need. Good fit for OOS applicant = high stats, whereas a VA applicant maybe able to get a little more leeway depending on what the IS pool looks like

i wonder if there's going to be an interview wave today #praying

Why are they so obsessed with stats? contra UCSF, UCLA and such

somebody just added II on cycle results