chance me ed william and mary

yes I know these are pretty subjective bc its just stores and not essays + letters of recs, but anyway…

Personal:
white female, first generation college student, low/middle class, my aunt went to w&m

Scores:
(my school doesn’t rank but possibly top 15-10% not sure)
GPA w: 4.22 uw: 3.8
SAT: 1470, 750 reading/writing, 720 math (planning on retaking, max would probably be 1500)
SAT subject: bio- 710, us history- 740
APs: gov (5), psych (5), lang (5), apush (5), bio (5), ab calc (4)
also IB econ and i got a 5 out of 7 possible points (4 is passing)

all core classes have been either honors or ap, other than precalculus. my school weights gpa w/ regular/honors being 4.0 and ap/ib being 5.0 for A’s

Senior year courses:

ib environmental science
AP stat
AP lit
Dual enrolled Geospatial tools and techniques
asl 3
ceramics

Extracurriculars:

since august 2017, working 13 hrs a week in retail
Yoga exchange program: 2 hour shifts at front desk in exchange for free classes
volunteer at animal shelter 2hr a month to clean cages + feed cats since early 2017
summer 2016: volunteer at a summer camp for a month
summer 2018: internship at an environmental action group in my city
I also regularly petsit for a couple neighbors and have since 6th grade

Awards:
Student of the semester in AP biology
Student of the semester in Precalculus

Prospective major is public health, but also interested in neuroscience.

also i am doing an interview there later in the summer

Congratulations on your hard work and success! I think working is a great EC, great from the college admissions standpoint and great in terms of what it teaches, and for your personal growth and development. You are certainly a very competitive candidate.

Are you a VA resident? Admission is somewhat less challenging for in-state students–a matter of supply and demand–and perhaps, more importantly, the school has a very robust campaign to meet the financial needs of admitted in-state students. It is more difficult for OOS students to get sufficient aid.

I wish you success, at W&M, or elsewhere!

W&M does not have a Public Health major.

Are you a Virginia resident?

William & Mary does have a public health minor, as well as kineseology and health science major with a concentration in public health. Public health is a very interdisciplinary field anyway and many students do choose to design their own major in public health.

You are a first-generation student with amazing test scores and grades, so that really stands out. On top of that you probably have a greater understanding of W&M than the average person because of your aunt, and you have the opportunity to demonstrate your personality & who you are through the interview. Also this might interest you, but William & Mary has a very comprehensive center for geospatial analysis and really interesting community based public health organizations that I could tell you more about if you’d like.

Oops I forgot to mention this, but I am a virginia resident!!

That is great! That means it will be significantly easier to get in, and you have the benefits on in-state tuition.