Need help to improve for William & Mary, Washington & Lee and UVA.

To give reference, I live in Virginia and go to a competitive school for all of the schools you mentioned (though we don’t have too many W&L applicants). In order to be even competitive here, you need a 1400+ SAT/4.3+ GPA/8+ APs, and that’s just in Virginia. It’s much more competitive out of state, so right now I would say all of these schools are high reaches.

Though your test scores can get higher (I’m hesitant that they’re raise the 200/300 points needed to be more competitive though) and you can attempt to do better, the fact that you’ve only taken 2 APs is going to be a really big blow to your application. Here in Virginia, we had a girl who was in the top 3% with a 4.0 UW GPA, but she had only taken 6 APs, so she got deferred from UVA EA. Most competitive UVA applicants from my school have at least taken 4/5 APs by the end of their junior year, and our school is similar in that no one really takes them prior to junior year.

I’m not trying to let you down, but just give a small reality check. By no means is a 1400+/4.3+/8+ APs the guarantee to admission or what is needed to be considered, but as an out of state applicant you really need to be at the top of your game. Good luck!