<p>I think that many schools do have numerical cutoffs for GPA (and less so SAT) where they won't really look at your application. I feel very strongly that W&M is not one fo them. Some of those 18% with the 3.5-3.74 will be athletes (W&M ranks very very highly in the new NCAA academic ratings, last year it was 1 of only 2 schools with D1 football who had a 100% graduation rate for the football team. The other school was Duke). Again, the numbers clearly show the lower your GPA, the harder it is to get in, BUT your GPA being slightly lower will not keep you out.</p>
<p>I think I had like a 3.55 after semester grades senior year.</p>
<p>worldshopper - as far as UVA goes, GPA is like, the #1 thing as long as you take a few AP/IB classes. They don't really distinguish between a half load of AP/IB and a full load, in my experiences. With a "low" GPA, I believe an applicant's chances are much higher at W&M than at UVA.</p>