Activities:
• French Club
• Activities Director for French Honor Society
• Best Buddies
• Math Honor Society
• Science Honor Society
• English Honor Society
• Staff writer for school newspaper
• Environmental Action Committee
Community Service:
• Volunteered for the Special Olympics
• Volunteered as a teaching assistant at an elementary school
• Volunteered at church
• Volunteered for Petco
60+ hours of community service & over 30 tutoring hours
• Freshman year GPA: 4.1
• Sophomore year GPA: 4.2
• Junior year GPA: 4.4
• Attended Girls State 2015.
• Received All A’s my sophomore and junior year
Took 3 honors classes my freshman year, 3 honors my sophomore year, 2 AP’s junior year + 2 honors, and taking 3 AP’s and 2 honors senior year
received 5’s on both AP exams.
1970 SAT score: 640 on reading, 650 on math, 680 on writing
planning on retaking, taking ACT, and subject tests. also, hopefully getting a job soon…lol **
If you don’t have something substantive to say about the activities/service they may not help you.
In that vain, have you done an interview? I know rising seniors can do them or at least that has been the policy in the past.
Course load/Test scores are certainly fine. W&M looks at a lot more than your scores. but does expect the strong course load. Does your school not offer many AP’s? I only ask because mine had lots of AP’s but only like two-three honors courses, while you seem to have the opposite.
I’d personally suggest taking the ACT, as I personally found it much easier. I can’t recall my scores off the top of my head, but I know the science and writing sections are extremely easy (34 on both). Reading wasn’t bad either to my memory, but the math section was a lot different from the SAT, I want to say it was a lot of trig or something I hadn’t planned for.
To sum up that horribly long post, you have a good chance, but remember that admissions nowadays aren’t as simple to predict as they used to be. I also didn’t notice you saying if you’re instate or not, but that matters a lot!
If you have any questions for a current student (double major Finance & Econ) just PM me, I’d be happy to share my stats or whatever with you if that will help you, but I think that’s only going to make you more anxious. Essay/application help I’d be happy to offer and I think that would be a lot more beneficial to your cause!
Good luck though!
Thank you so much. That was very helpful. My school offers around 20 AP’s but you can’t take any freshman year, you can only take one sophomore year, and junior year ppl will take a max of 4 AP’s. Im currently working on my essay right now, but I’m struggling. I really like my essay, but it just sounds to formal. People keep saying it needs to sound more like me, but that is me!! I’m trying to rewrite it, but I’m just struggling honestly.
You should talk to whatever fool is in charge of that system and tell them to change it immediately. I can’t even describe how bad that is for students.
Anyway, yes, essays need to be genuine to a fault. If it’s you then it’s you, don’t change stuff because people don’t think it is (they don’t know, duh).
If you need any help just lemme know!
Don’t get too worried about not having lots of AP classes. W&M knows what your high school permits and that you cannot take 4 per year like some other schools. Our school doesn’t permit any until junior year and it didn’t prevent D from getting admitted. Just be taking the toughest course load you can.
Thank you so much! I’ll keep you posted.