<p>Thanks for the input. I would love for him to go to W&M (my alma mater), but he is interested in biomedical engineering, so that's out. I think UVA is the only school in the state that offers biomed. </p>
<p>I think it's weird how much more difficult it is to get into good schools now than when I was in college 25 years ago. I was accepted at UVA and W&M with a 1260 SAT, 3.8 gpa, and very few extracurriculars. My school did not have AP or honors classes, math consisted of Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and "Senior Math" (which I didn't take). Our only foreign language choices were French and Spanish. I had the highest SAT scores in the entire class of 435, and was the only person to apply and go to William and Mary, even though it was only 45 miles from my high school.</p>