<p>I played varsity basketball and jv track and soccer. can i put soccer and track for the list of varsity sports?</p>
<p>This thread seems like a good place to ask this question. </p>
<p>D's first choice school is William and Mary which offers ED. Wife thinks she should do it to improve her chances.</p>
<p>D goes to high school ranked in Newsweeks Top 20 Public Elite High School. Has 1500 SAT (2190 with writing). Will have taken 12 AP's and 4 college classes before graduating. GPA is only 3.3 due to competetive school. Just named NMSF. Varsity Tennis (4 years), JV Field Hockey, Model Congress, Model UN, Medical mentorship</p>
<p>I think she will get in regardless of ED. Wife thinks grades will keep her out. I want RD primarily to see if there is scholarship money available because of NM status.</p>
<p>Love to hear opinions.</p>
<p>proudpop, if your daughter was a son I would say he wouldn't need ED. William and Mary has many more female applicants than male and your daughter could well be rejected for her GPA. Does her school have Naviance so she can compare herself to former applicants from her school?</p>
<p>Is there really AA for guys? I mean, the fact that 55% of the people at my school are female perhaps means that females tend to be more qualified than guys on average?</p>
<p>Proudpop--Is D applying as an in-state or out-of-state student? If out-of-state, where are you from? It'll make a difference.</p>
<p>We are in state. How does that impact?</p>
<p>It is easier to get into W&M as an in-state rather than out-of-state student. I don't remember the numbers, but we toured there last year with S & they gave the average SATs for in-state vs. out-of-state students and there was a difference. I didn't see it on their website, but it could be that I just didn't look closely enough. Also, there are some areas of the country from which W&M gets alot of applications, so if your D was from certain states, her GPA might be a problem (although I think she'd still probably get in), but being that you're in-state, I don't think she'll have any problems at all. It's a wonderful school. I'm sure she'll love it there.</p>
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<p>Yes, especially at many of the LACs. The admissions director at Kenyon wrote an Op Ed piece in the NY Times apologizing to all of the wonderful young women she had to turn down in order to receive gender balance.</p>
<p>To All the Girls I've Rejected</p>
<p>Know a student who got ED to Colby. Parents refused to pay.....rescinded. She had no other apps prepared and ended up at state U....honors program but still not the same.</p>
<p>Proud -</p>
<p>Sounds like she goes to Maggie Walker or TJ. If so, her guidance counselor should be able to give you very reliable odds on her chances. The GPA is a slight curveball but with the rest of her record, I'd say she looks very good.</p>
<p>Thanks to all for advice.</p>
<p>Well, I'm in sort of a sticky situation at the moment.</p>
<p>I want to apply ED to Pennsylvania or Dartmouth CAS. I want to major in economics.</p>
<p>My parents are very conservative, and don't want me to major in anything other than medicine or engineering. In fact, they stated that they would not pay for me to get a worthless education. Thus, they would not pay for me to study Economics. My parents are fairly well off, and would have paid a large portion of my tuition. I don't want to be a doctor. I don't want to be an engineer. I told them I can still get into medical, but they fear that "I'll lose focus of what's important."</p>
<p>My family's EFC is approximately 35k-40k a year. I don't currently have a job. If they refused to pay, is there anything I could do? Would I have to get emancipated? What are the rules on that? I'm currently 17, I'll be 18 next September.</p>
<p>If I apply ED, and can't pay because my parent's don't support my decision, am I responsible, and will my other applications be rescinded? I can't make them pay, and I hope they are just bluffing, but they've been known to make decisions like this arbitrarily.</p>
<p>I desperately need assistance in this matter. </p>
<p>I don't want to become emancipated, because I'm generally very close to my family. It's possible that one of my uncles would be willing to help me out. He's sort of the patriarch of the family, and has been known to help his nephews and niece without judging. He's the one who's always encouraged me to go the best school possible. But I doubt he'd take me as a financial liability, just out of respect to my mother.</p>
<p>Darn you fundamentalist nutzo family values :(.</p>
<p>Emancipation will not work ... well not unless you figure out some way to get your parents accused of being abusive, and I think you have sufficiently doting parents (undoting as they seem right now) and you won't want to do that. :) [You have two! You're so luckeeeeeeee!] </p>
<p>You will probably not want to take out 160k in loans. Jobs help a lot, and take a huge chunk ... but not with your EFC I think. </p>
<p>Can't you get on the track to being an i-banker?</p>
<p>Also, if you have a passion for economics .... you need to like, show them a rec or something. </p>
<p>Note also that pffft ... your bachelor's degree tends to be flexible. Economics majors apply to med school. It is possible to be join an engineering graduate school if you had the requisite coursework (like say, physical chemistry). </p>
<p>You can also double major + minor (ding ding ding)!!</p>
<p>Since you are going into economics, don't you have an argument for return on investment and MB/MC? ;)</p>
<p>You don't have to declare a major to apply to college. I mean, eventually you'll have to, but it isn't pertinant at the moment. Can't you just apply, get yourself accepted somewhere, and start with you general ed classes? The showdown with the parents can be put off for a good while yet.</p>
<p>By then you might have changed your mind, they might have changed theirs, or you can think of a good way to approach the issue after they've had a chance to get used to you being in college, gotten a little distance from micro-managing your life... you know, all that stuff.</p>