<p>Rejected…there goes my dream. Good luck to ya guys! I’m off to cry in a corner…</p>
<p>waitlisted…i’m excited just about that!</p>
<p>bmorelikeray, there’s no way to estimate how long it will take servers to process 12,000+ applications but know we’re moving as fast as we can. If nothing else, your email will be there in the morning.</p>
<p>TribeBisonGreen and WilliamandMary, we’re sorry the news wasn’t what you hoped. The silver lining is that there are other great colleges and other dreams to pursue and we know that you’ll land at a great college and do great things there. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, ironically enough I just got an email. Waitlisted. Thats a start!</p>
<p>While there are a wealth of great universities out there, it seems I wasn’t accepted to any of the 6 I was really hoping for, and as I said, this was my #1. All I have left to hear from is Dartmouth, which–if this is any indication–will be a resounding no. Honestly I feel lost and I have no idea where to go now, because I never thought I’d be left with a single choice.</p>
<p>waitlisted! actually pretty happy, william and mary is really competitive and an amazing school! hoping for the best!</p>
<p>TribeBisonGreen…Go Huskies!</p>
<p>rejected, but being out of state wasn’t sure what to expect. It would have been nice to be waitlisted, but oh well. Wasn’t meant to be, but if I go to school tomorrow and hear people who got in but are less qualified (like has been happening) I don’t know what I am going to do. Sports should not be the deciding factor at all.</p>
<p>TribeBison, if that’s the case, you can always explore transferring once all the options are in front of you.</p>
<p>mjbnj12, we love attitudes like your’s! Way to keep it positive!</p>
<p>tallperson, SATs are one part of our process, no more than no less. Having a great SAT score is wonderful but it’s not the sole factor on which we make a decision. We hope we’ve conveyed that numbers are just a part of your process. No dobut with such a great SAT score you’ll have many great offers.</p>
<p>William and Mary is my last school to hear from so I’m excited to finally get my decision! Wishing everyone luck who is still waiting with me!</p>
<p>W&M Admission- What would be the first step of someone who already knows they want to transfer, having just been rejected?</p>
<p>Waitlisted… honestly I’m glad to hear this, as someone OOS I was careful not to get my hopes up too high. Much better news than I was expecting considering how competitive W&M is. Thanks to Admissions for considering my application and keeping us all updated these past few months (as well as throughout today)!</p>
<p>Accepted. I’ve been waiting anxiously since I saw the Admit It! post a couple hours ago :D</p>
<p>Accepted! being OOS i’m pretty excited</p>
<p>Wait-listed. Oh, this really stung. Guess it’s time to move on now…best of luck to the rest of you.</p>
<p>Accepted! Yay! Now I can blissfully slumber.</p>
<p>jasminny, sprucemoose, and pjramos61…congrats! Way to go. Welcome to the Tribe. Great way to end the night. </p>
<p>desertcolossus and ANWson, while we know it doesn’t seem that way, a waitlist offer is a positive decision recognizing the competitive merits of your application and is more a representation of how few spaces we have available. You can certainly remain on the waitlist and see if we can make more admission offers in May/June or you can move on. Both ae valid options. Best of luck whatever you decide.</p>
<p>Accepted! Congratulations to my fellow admits. Thank you WM for your consideration, I’m glad you liked me as much as I like you! :)</p>
<p>@TribeBisonGreen</p>
<p>As a current sophomore of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell who was rejected from WM Early Decision for Fall 2010 I have some advice for you.</p>
<p>First, come to terms with the fact that while you won’t be at WM in the fall, life does go on. Frankly I was so attached that I don’t really even remember much of my senior year from December to April just because I felt like my life was over and everything I’d done had been a waste.</p>
<p>You’ll need a clear head, free of post-rejection depression, to make the next decision for your future, because it is fairly major. I chose to go to Fordham in NYC as it seemed radically different from WM so that I wouldn’t be reminded of it. That was the biggest mistake I ever made. I hated every day of my first semester of college. I would take the Fung Wah bus back to Boston every weekend because I just wanted to get away from NYC. Anyways, if I had been thinking clearly I would have accepted Mary Washington’s offer of admittance… Yes it would have been a reminder of W&M, but because of that it also would have been a far better fit and would’ve prevented the mess I made by transferring from Fordham to UMass Lowell, which while not entirely a mistake still has not been “right”</p>
<p>Anyways calmly decide what school you will go to, with the full intent of making the best situation of it as possible. You don’t know how it will go; you could end up making the best friends you’ve ever had, meeting fantastic faculty and really finding your place in this “Other” school. Life has a mysterious way of working out.</p>
<p>If however, after you’ve really put your heart and soul into “Other” school and you still want to join the Tribe, as I am, then here’s some things to keep in mind:
- a 3.5 GPA is the suggested GPA to maintain for transfer, but often applicants have over a 3.5 making the pool really competitive. I was rejected last semester just due to this, though I have a 3.95 at UML.
- The longer you spend in college, the less your High School record counts. So applying after one semester is not a really smart idea; also W&M tends not to have housing for freshman transfers. Nor is applying after 2, unless your HS record was actually decent. (Meaning, you’ll be applying DURING your third semester or even fourth, ie sophomore year, so it is extremely important that you do have a connection with your school!!!)
- Get to know your professors. There is an optional prof recommendation component, and your profs will also comment on the Mid-Term Report when you get your grades for that current term collected.
- Get involved! W&M stressed this in an Admit It post for freshman applicants, and I’m fairly certain the same goes for college. Don’t over extend yourself to impress admissions, but just make certain your a part of your school. Also, this is THE BEST way to make friends in college, not at random frat parties (worst way ever, btw) so its just in your best interests in general.</p>
<p>However, if you take the hard road, much like I did, and you end up rejected from W&M again, don’t give up if its what you really want (you’re not penalized for applying to transfer again after being rejected), but also don’t get too attached. If its not meant to be it won’t happen, and something better will come along. Also don’t give up on your dreams just because W&M may not be a part of them.</p>
<p>But in the end I cannot stress enough: DO NOT sell your next school short because your holding onto W&M. You’ll regret it. </p>
<p>I did.</p>
<p>TribeBisonGreen, some fantastic advice from YoungHistorian. Listen to it and absorb it. Not sure we could have said it better ourselves.</p>
<p>If, come this summer, when you’ve had time to weigh your options and take a step back from today and decide if W&M is truly what you want for your future, contact our office and we can help guide you through the transfer process but more likely than not, you’ll end up loving where you enroll next fall which is perfect.</p>