<p>Hi! I'm planning on applying to W&M ED in the fall and was wondering if anyone would care to share my chances. </p>
<p>I'm an instate female (NOVA) with:
1280 SAT (CR+M) (might not submit), 710 writing
31 ACT (34 E, 28 M, 32 R, 30 S, 32 E/W) (will submit)
At this rate I don't plan on retaking either the SAT or the ACT unless someone recommends otherwise.
3.85/4.00 UW GPA, 4.05/4.23 W (school only weights APs), with my grades on an upward curve (mainly B+'s freshman year to all A's junior year)
I'll graduate with 7 APs, including calculus and physics
I've studied French for five years
I have over 100 hours of volunteer work helping to raise funds for orphaned children
ECs: Orchestra (principal role), church groups, planning to start a music club next year, various chamber ensembles
Awards: Principal's list, concerto competitions
Work: babysitting and petsitting
I plan to submit both a music supplement and the optional supplement, and I am interviewing later this summer.</p>
<p>I think that you have a very good chance Does your school rank? Do you know if you’re in the top 10% of your class?
I don’t know if I would recommend retaking either the SAT or the ACT. Your ACT scores are well into their middle 50. If you’ve only taken the SAT once, maybe retaking it will improve your superscore. Either way, your ACT score is fine, so don’t sweat standardized testing at this point.
Best of luck! </p>
<p>The one thing that jumped out at me was, “planning to start a music club next year.” If you really work on this – and I mean, recruit members, organize activities, get community sponsors or at least partnerships, do middle school outreach programs, etc. , to MAKE IT HAPPEN - that is HUGE, regardless of the focus of the club and regardless of whether it is really viable to survive and thrive after you graduate.</p>
<p>Top schools get literally thousands and thousands of applications from good students with good grades and test scores and standard school-sponsored ECs blah blah blah blah blah. They get very very few applications from students saying, “I started this group from scratch and poured my heart and soul into making it work.”</p>
Does your school rank? Do you know if you’re in the top 10% of your class?