<p>white female from nova</p>
<p>3.8 weighted, 3.7 unweighted. </p>
<p>SAT 1900 (retaking) 580 CR, 580 Math , 740 Writing</p>
<p>Ecs- varsity dance team, competitive dance, DECA (placed at Internationals), NHS, SHS (VP for 2 years), Partner's Club</p>
<p>White female from Nova makes things extremely difficult. Unless your SATs go up remarkably, I would say your chances of acceptance are not very good.</p>
<p>What is your class rank?</p>
<p>I feel like if you can pull both your math and reading scores up and over 650, you'll have a pretty decent shot. This is assuming that you took the most challenging curriculum your high school had to offer and that your GPA puts you in the top 10%.</p>
<p>And when I said white female from Nova, I was thinking you meant OOS. Disregard my earlier post, I agree with Datkid.</p>
<p>I predict that you will be either rejected or waitlisted. Good Luck!</p>
<p>Based on the small gap between your weighted and unweighted GPA, I assume you haven't had too many AP courses. This will work against you. Try to fit in as may as possible your senior year. Also, pull your SAT scores up in the 700+ range each. 650-ish might be good enough, but 580 is not.</p>
<p>I agree with the previous poster regarding the too-small difference in your GPA's and AP courses. Regarding AP/IB courses, there's a sentence that comes up a lot in admissions - "has this student taken the most challenging coursework available?" If the answer isn't "yes", it's going to be very hard to get into any top-tier school. </p>
<p>This is from an article published awhile back in the W&M Alumni magazine, and is a useful guideline:</p>
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In admission baseball, there are five bases: biology, chemistry, physics, calculus and four to five years of a foreign language. This is just one measure of whether a student has completed a competitive courseload in high school. They also talk in strange numbers, often saying something like "4-plus-2," which apparently is not "6" I later learn this to be the combined number of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses taken in the student's senior (4) and junior (2) years, respectively. These things are quantifiable, and most discussion of this question is brief.
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<p>Some more stats - the median SAT scores are 690V 671M 671W and 77% of the enrolled class had a 3.75 or better GPA last year (uw.) </p>
<p>Being in-state definitely boosts your chances, but right now, it looks like a "reach".</p>
<p>I've read the article (which is fascinating and a bit intimidating). I agree it's important, when applying to a school as selective as W & M, to show that you've undertaken a tough course of study in high school. But just to offer our experience - my daughter will start at W & M next month, and was admitted without ever having taken physics, and without an AP language. She did have 5 APs (Calc AB, US History, English Lit and Comp, Chem, and Bio), two humanities courses in a college cooperative program, and the rest all Honors courses - but it can't be said that she took the very most rigorous program at our high school, which would have included physics and an AP language. She's an unhooked OOS female (from NY) with very strong SATs who applied ED.</p>
<p>I do think that W & M strongly considers ECs, recs and essays if the GPA, SATs, and curriculum indicate a student who can fit in there academically.</p>
<p>Woah there! </p>
<p>I go to an IB school where weights are only worth .5 of a point, rather than a whole point. </p>
<p>That is why there is a relatively small difference between my weighted and unweighted GPA</p>
<p>My junior year i had 3 IB classes and 1 AP, and Senior Year I am taking 4 IBs and 1 AP. I would think this would be sufficient?</p>