<p>I'm a high school Junior at a public arts magnet in Texas. My class rank is 47/229 and my weighted gpa is 3.93. I have not yet received test scores for my second SAT, but my M/CR score is currently 1280 and I expect it to rise substantially (a conservative estimate is 100 points, based on how much I've improved) I will have taken 9 AP classes by the start of my Senior year, including AP Physics and AP Calculus. I also have a consistent upward trend on my high school UW GPA with an increasingly difficult course selection; Freshman year was a 3.74 (pre-ap biology, Algebra I, geography, and English I), Sophomore year was a 3.83(AP World History, pre-ap geometry, chemistry, French I, and English II), and Junior year so far has been a 3.89 (AP US History and Language, pre-ap physics, Algebra II, and French II) I am taking Trigonometry and College Algebra this summer. My academic courses for next year are AP Physics, AP Calculus, AP Psychology, AP Government, AP Economics, and AP Literature, and French III.</p>
<p>EC's:
-200+ theatre hours, will be inducted into the International Thespian Society in October
- Founder, contributor, and Editor-in-Chief of my school's art magazine.
- President and founder of a Human Rights Club at my school (I have organized and executed several voting registration drives at my school through this club and am currently working on organizing more as well as a food drive in collaboration with the North Texas Food Bank)
-NHS member
-Founding and active member of my school's environmental club (every day during lunch we take out all of the recycling in the school)
-Organized many activities as the leader of my school's Creative Writing Club, including lunch readings of the Outsiders in anticipation of S.E. Hinton visiting our school
- Will be volunteering at a hospital this summer
- Participated in various cultural and artistic events as a volunteer for my school's Free Tibet Club
- (More of an accolade, but still worth mentioning) received my school's Student of the Month Award (1 boy and 1 girl are chosen from each grade per month) every year of high school, and received the Student of the Year Award my Freshman year</p>
<p>I visited WM this past Spring Break and am absolutely sure that I want to apply ED. I know that being an OOS applicant puts me at quite a significant disadvantage, but I'd appreciate any feedback. Thank you!</p>
<p>W&M: Reach
Need a higher GPA and class rank. even if you were instate I think it would be a high match at best. Take the SAT again and aim for as close to 1500 math+cr as possible to balance your low gpa. Best of luck!</p>
<p>I disagree with the above poster. My DS plans to apply to William and Mary ED and is in state. His GPA and scores are not quite as high as yours, his EC’s are very similar to yours. I’ve been doing a lot of research and been following the blog that the William and Mary admissions publishes (you can find the link on their website). This past admissions cycle, I believe they said almost 40 percent of the incoming class was selected during ED. Check their blog, because they also listed approx. how many ED applications they received and how many of that group they accepted (a little more than half). I think you sound like a great applicant and though they must take 60 percent of the whole class from in state, the fact you are from Texas is a positive for you - it sets you apart from the majority of OOS applicants that are from the Northeastern states. If W&M is your top choice - then go for it during ED!</p>
<p>Last year they received 1200 ED applications and accepted 500 of them. Total freshman class is 1500, so 1/3 were from ED. This info comes from a visit to W&M I was on this week.</p>
<p>From their web page: Last year they had
14,047 total applications.
33% overall acceptance rate.
1480 entering class size.
ED is 37% of incoming class (about 548 seats).</p>
<p>They don’t say on the web page how many applications were ED and how many were RD, but let’s assume for the moment that the 1200 number is pretty accurate. That means about 12,847 RD applications. RD is not binding, so while they only have to send out 548 ED admission offers to fill those 548 seats, a 32% yield (approximate, I read this elsewhere) means they would need to send out (1480 * .63 / .32) = about 2914 RD admission offers to fill the other 932 seats. That would mean a (548/1200) = 45.7% admission rate ED and (2914 / 12,847) = 22.7% RD admission rate.</p>
<p>Obviously, the ED applicant pool can be very different from the RD applicant pool. But the binding nature of ED does seem to suggest rather strongly that it provides an admissions advantage, especially for OOS applicants (for whom the yield in RD is usually much lower than IS, due to the much higher tuition). I’d bet that if they had their choice, they would love to fill their entire OOS quota with ED applicants (~100% yield), and defer all IS applications to the RD cycle.</p>
<p>Which is to say: OOS and first choice, you’d be crazy not to apply ED.</p>
<p>I will add that the admissions rep at our meeting stated the majority of ED applicants are in state students - those who know they can afford to attend and are not as dependent on aid. In state applicants have a good idea on costs and tend to be most of the ED pool. </p>