Chance at William and Mary?

<p>Female from PA</p>

<p>SAT : 650 cr ,650 m, 600 w
(retaking in October )</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 +
class rank : 1/465</p>

<p>EC :
Varsity tennis 10,11, (12)
Jv basketball 9, 10
Varsity lacrosse 11 (12)
National honors society
Spanish club 11 (12)
I tutor and mentor young students
I've worked since the end of 10th grade </p>

<p>AP courses :
11th grade - english (A) , calc ab (A) , chemistry (A)
12th grade - calc bc, psychology , history </p>

<p>I have always been interested in William and Mary and was wondering if I would have any chance of getting in ?</p>

<p>As we say on all chance me threads, every student has a chance of getting into W&M. Our process is holistic meaning we have no minimum criteria for admission, no one thing automatically makes you an admit or deny, and every students get two thorough readings at least. That being said W&M is also highly selective admitting only one-third of those who apply and only 27-29% of the OOS students so students should also be realistic.</p>

<p>Your class rank is outstanding, almost goes without saying. What are the rest of your senior courses? Are you taking science? Have you completed the fourth level of a foreign language. Given we like to see students increase their course rigor each year, we’d recommend another AP class your senior year so that you’re taking more in 12th than you did in 11th and we’d definitely encourage you to take a science next year (physics maybe) and to complete our foreign language recommendation if you haven’t already.</p>

<p>Your SAT scores are low for OOS. The middle 50% of our OOS students score between a 1380-1450 so we’d definitely recommend taking those again since we superscore your SAT.</p>

<p>You didn’t list any four year ECs (although we’re guessing you played JV tennis in 9th). Are there any ECs you’ve done for 4 years? Do you hold any leadership roles? Those things can really help boost your app so strive for a captainship or other leadership role this year and be sure to highlight any four-year commitments.</p>

<p>For more on our process and any applicant’s chances, check out our Admit It! Blog ([W&M</a> Blogs Chance Me](<a href=“http://blogs.wm.edu/2010/12/14/chance-me/]W&M”>http://blogs.wm.edu/2010/12/14/chance-me/))</p>

<p>I have a question regarding what you said about taking 4 years pf FL. My S took 3 years of Latin, but last year as Junior he went to a school in VT for a semester. The school did have Latin but it was only by tutorial and my S wasn’t interested in that, also they were only allowed to take 5 classes with 2 of those being required English and ES. He decided to take the Humanities class and he will tell you it was the best decision he ever made. Incredibly rigorous and they got to read and discuss the most incredible books. So anyway, to make a long story short, he doesn’t think he would do well taking latin 4 this year without having it last year and has decided to not take it. He does have 5 other AP classes and 4 years of all other subjects. Will this hurt him in admissions?</p>

<p>W&M Admissions is really great at taking extenuating circumstances into account (I am sure your son’s situation qualifies). I had a number of freshman hallmates fulfill the language requirement after being accepted into The Tribe. I think Admissions will probably just recommend that your son note his reasons for not taking the 4th year of a foreign language in the additional comments section of the Common Application. </p>

<p>As long as your son is taking a good number of AP classes senior year, Admissions will be able to see that he is still challenging himself with a rigorous course schedule.</p>

<p>5boys, without knowing your son’s courses (prior and senior year) it’s hard to say whether or not the absence of Latin 4 will “hurt” him. If he’s taking 5 AP classes senior year (especially if they include a mix of AP humanities and AP math/science) and took more APs in previous years chances are we will view his schedule as rigorous.</p>

<p>Remember, we don’t require any classes for admission, we simply recommend some. Not having any one course will in no way be the only reason we make the decision we do and it will not automatically make any student an admit or deny. However, given that your son did interrupt his traditional schooling, you should definitely use the educational history part of the Common App to explain that so we understand his path and can take that into context when evaluating everything from his transcript to his ECs.</p>