<p>I'm a rising senior who goes to school in Boston but my dad lives in fairfax, va.
I go to a very competitive high school and my GPA is a 4.0 out of 5.
SATs= math 610, reading 690, writing 780.
I've taken all honors all 4 years and skipped a year in French. I will have 5 years of honors latin and 3 years of honors French. My school doesn't offer many APs but I will take AP statistics an AP psych this fall. I don't have room for physics in my schedule because I am taking political science and I am the managing editor of the school newspaper. </p>
<p>I have been in student congress for 4 years, I am co-chair of my schools seminar day (organized by student congress, a day in which we bring in speakers for a day of seminars instead of a normal school day), an advisor in my church's youth group - I've traveled to Ecuador, Zambia, new Mexico and Dominican republic on service projects with this group. I'm also a worship deacon at church, a peer mentor for my high school, and a tutor at my local elementary school. I want to study public policy, and this fall I am interning with congressman Barney frank. I have also had a part time job at a local tea shop for 4 years. </p>
<p>I am highly considering applying early to w&m because I want to study public policy/intl relations because of my service projects and they have good programs. </p>
<p>Do I have a chance of getting in?? Any tips are extremely helpful... Thanks!!</p>
<p>Glad to hear you’re interested in W&M. It sounds like you may be able to apply as an in-state student given that your father lives in VA. Living in VA is not the only qualification but he may want to contact our domicile officer to see if in fact you might qualify for in-state tuition and consideration. Of course, being a VA resident is helpful in applying as we are a public university and 65% of our class will be VA residents (the application process is slightly less competitive for VA residents).</p>
<p>As for the classes you mentioned, we’d recommend calculus over AP Stats if that’s a possibility and we’d recommend that you take a science your senior year. While we don’t require any classes for admission we do have some benchmarks for a more challenging curriculum which include calc, physics, and the fourth level of a foreign language. You absolutely have exceeded the foreign language benchmark and taking two is great but we’d highly encourage you to take at least one if not both of the other recommended classes if at all possible.</p>
<p>Hard to get a sense of your GPA without more information about either your grades or class rank. Those students who are most competitive for W&M have mostly As and Bs on their transcript (hopefully more As than Bs) and are usually in the top 10% of their class if that helps.</p>
<p>Your SAT scores are within our middle 50% range but on the lower end (especially if you end up being out-of-state). Since we superscore the SAT and only see your best outcome we’d recommend you try the test again in Oct. or take the ACT in September before applying ED to help make yourself as competitive as possible.</p>
<p>Hope this is helpful information. 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’m unable to fit Physics into my schedule because I take two languages and newspaper and I want to take political science because I may want to pursue it in college. I also do qualify for in-state tuition. If I were an in-state applicant applying early decision, would I have a decent chance??</p>
<p>Tealover, while your schedule choices are absolutely your own we’d highly encourage you to take calculus and physics if at all possible (we’d encourage physics over Latin 3 for example since it’s your second language). If you don’t, your transcript may be less competitive than other students who apply since most of our applicants will have at least one or the other if not both. While that won’t automatically make you a deny as our process doesn’t work like that we do consider the transcript and the course rigor important in our process.</p>
<p>Remember, W&M does not admit by major and college will give you more opportunities than your high school to explore your major so you may want to consider that when thinking about your schedule and whether to take AP science.</p>
<p>Again, as we mentioned in our previous post, we have very little contextual information about your school or your other classes or your grades and SAT so it’s hard to provide any additional information on your chances. Being in-state will certainly increase your chances because we are a public university. We generally admit in the mid 40th percentile during ED if that’s helpful.</p>