Chance me for W&M/merit aid please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z College of William and Mary
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<p>Me: Tri-citizen (U.S., Ireland, Brazil) living in the U.S. (D.C.) since 9th grade; have lived on three continents</p>

<p>School:
GPA: 3.74 (w); moved school after sophomore year from one that doesn't weight to one that does, so this doesn't include freshman and sophomore year (they ended up at about 3.2 uw)
Rank: School doesn't rank, at highly competitive private school so probably top 25%
SAT: 2200 (800 CR; 680 M; 720 W)
SAT II: 730 World History; 790 Lit
APs: World History- 5; English Lit- 5; English Lang- 5; US Gov- 5; APES- 4</p>

<p>Senior year courses:
AP European History and AP US History (joint class)
Honors Physics
English (no honors/APs offered)
Intro to Calculus
AP Latin
AP Statistics </p>

<p>Extra-curricular:
Model UN - lots of leadership roles and awards including Outstanding Delegate at NAIMUN (biggest Model UN conference in the western hemisphere; 3000+ delegates).
Volunteer work - Title-1 public school; 150+ hours.
Swim team - 3 Varsity letters; lifeguard certified
JSA - President and Founder; very involved and won Best Speaker at JSA Summer School
Yearbook - Staff Junior year, Editor senior year</p>

<p>Summers:
Took classes at Georgetown University in Intro to Medicine and International Relations; since decided that IR is my path
Took Constitution Law at Stanford (through JSA)
Worked at a high-profile law firm in Ireland (all the lawyers I worked with offered to write letters of recommendation, including the executive partner)
Did research in Trinity College Dublin (in Ireland) at the Institute for International Integration Studies</p>

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<p>You definitely have some really great attributres. Your SAT scores are strong, your course schedule looks solid and your involvements seem strong and filled with leadership. Plus your background and experience abroad add flavor to any college community so be sure to share that in your app.</p>

<p>Hard to say a lot about your grades based on just a GPA from one year and not knowing your school’s grading or GPA scale.</p>

<p>What we can tell you is that we have very limited merit-based scholarship as we focus primarily on need-based aid. We offer three merit-based scholarships, only two of which inlcude tuition monies (the third is for the James Monroe Scholars program and the money associated with that award is granted for independent research but not tuition). The other two scholarships, our Murray Scholarship and our William & Mary SURE Scholarship go to 4 and 50 incoming students respectively so only 4% of our incoming students enter with merit money so unfortunately no applicant should bank on receiving a merit award from W&M. The good news is that you are considered for any merit award we have by virtue of applying so there’s no separate application or anything.</p>

<p>Hope this is helpful.</p>