<p>The regular decision deadline (January 1) is fast approaching. This is a postmark deadline. Online submissions through Common App should be submitted by 11:59 pm on January 1. Because January 1 is a Sunday and January 2 is a postal holiday we will accept items postmarked January 3 (to be honest we’re not meanies and we’ll gladly accept submissions postmarked through the first week of January). </p>
<p>The most essential thing is to submit your application by the deadline. That is the only indicator that you are applying (submission of SAT scores or transcripts are not considered an intent to apply). Assuming we get an application from you we will work with you to ensure your application is completed and reviewed.</p>
<p>Are you able to give any info regarding Accepted Students day this Spring? My daughter found out it is April 14th…is this correct? Not sure where she found the information. Also, while you may not have an agenda quite yet, do you have a time frame? We are in-state, but still a few hours away and may consider staying over depending on the start/end time of the event. You know how quickly those room rates go up
Thanks for any info and Happy New Year!</p>
<p>…I am also assuming this is a “parent friendly” event? Meaning, should we be tagging along?</p>
<p>Yes, Day for Admitted Students is April 14. If your D was admitted ED she likely discovered that on our admitted student site. The program usually begins around 9:30 (registration begins at 8:00) and lasts until 3:30 give or take. All admitted students will get a lot more details about the program come early April.</p>
<p>We forgot to reply to the second part of your question earlier today. Yes, Day for Admitted Students (in fact any admitted or prospective student program we run) is open to both parents and students. There are parts of some programs that are geared towards students or parents but we absolutely invite parents/families to accompany their students.</p>
<p>Believe it or not we are still processing all of the freshman applications submitted in the final days leading up to the deadline and boy is our printer tired (but it’s a good tired). Therefore, there are still several thousand applicants who have not received even our initial application status email. We will be sure to keep everyone posted on our progress over the course of the next few weeks.</p>
<p>All freshman Common Applications are now loaded into our system. What this means is every freshman applicant should have received an initial email from W&M stating that we have your Common Application. If you have not received such an email, please contact our office as soon as possible.</p>
<p>We are still working on completing freshman applications and there are still a few thousand that have not been completed. So do not worry if you have not received an email saying your application is complete. We are in the process of completing all remaining incomplete files. Those we cannot complete we will email and let you know what’s missing and how to submit it to complete your file.</p>
<p>D wants to drop 2nd semester elective which is her 2nd English class. She is already taking AP lit along with 3 other AP classes plus Calculus H. How would this impact her application and how do we let W&M know?</p>
<p>YChinny, we do accept January SAT scores and they can be used for Monroe consideration. They may arrive too late to be used in Murray consideration as most of those semi-finalists have already been decided upon.</p>
<p>cats4u, we never recommend dropping an academic course unless it’s being replaced with another academic course. It sounds like the class in question is not an AP course and it sounds like that discipline is still being covered senior year with another course so that’s good but generally we recommend that students pursue as challenging a schedule as possible their senior year. Dropping the course will not be the only factor on which we make a decision but it can impact the overall rigor of your student’s schedule which does impact our decision. If a schedule change is made, email it to your regional dean.</p>
<p>2) Murray Semifinalists – Many have been asking about Murray selection. Most of our semifinalists (those who are asked to submit a second essay for Murray consideration) were notified this past weekend. A few more may be named in the coming weeks. Remember that only 4 students are named Murray Scholars each year from a pool of 13,000 applicants (only 60-80 are named semifinalists) so it’s incredibly selective. Not being named a Murray semifinalist in no way means you are not an admit or that you’re not being considered for other awards (like Monroe for example).</p>
<p>W&M Admission
My D was admitted ED, still excited about starting next Fall.
Is there anything beyond mid-year grades that would help with consideration for Monroe Scholar offer?</p>
<p>cats4u, auditing is probably preferable to dropping a class but not by much. Auditing an academic class isn’t something we generally like to see.</p>
<p>ThreeDown, all ED admits are required to send their mid-year grades. Generally, mid-year grades are not instrumental to Monroe consideration. Monroe scholars are generally the top academics in our pool which means they’ve historically had mostly As and that type of student generally has a consistent academic record so mid-year grades are the same as what we’ve already seen. ED admits are all reviewed for Monroe based on all of the materials in their ED file.</p>
<p>No we’re not Doomsday believers…we’re ready to enter Committee for freshman applicants. Committee begins on Monday and will last most of the month of March. The Class of 2016 will come together over the course of the next couple of weeks. Keep up on all the goings on in Committee with our Overheard in Committee blogs ([W&M</a> Blogs Admit It!](<a href=“http://blogs.wm.edu/author/admiss]W&M”>http://blogs.wm.edu/author/admiss)).</p>
<p>If committee is just beginning, how were likely letter recipients chosen? Just a bit confused… guess I’m not in the know enough about admissions committees…</p>
<p>Fair question and every school is different in how it approaches this process. For W&M, every single application is reviewed at least twice. After that second read, the regional dean can pass some students along to our Senior Associate Dean to be admitted before committee. Each regional dean does this for a small percentage of applicants from his/her region. The remaining competitive cases are discussed in Admission Committee.</p>
<p>I believe that both in and out of state Murray winners get full Virginia-resident tuition, fees, room and board. Tuition is significantly higher for OOS students, so this amounts to a full-ride for Virginian Murray Scholars while OOS Murray Scholars will pay approx. $23,000 according to my calculations. </p>
<p>There are other nice benefits to being a Murray, obviously – priority registration, research money, close work with faculties. But the financial disparities b/t instate and OOS Murray benefits are big.</p>
<p>samster, if you receive the Murray Scholarship and are an OOS student you will pay the difference between out-of-state tuition and the monies you receive. This year for example, oos tuition is approx. $44,000. Murray Scholars receive an amount equal to in-state tuition/room/board/fees or about $22,000 so OOS Murrays pay approx. $22,000.</p>
