OOS Chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z College of William and Mary
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<p>Hi there!
I'm a rising senior, and I was wondering if there was any hope of me getting into William and Mary, one of my dream schools :).</p>

<p>Location: north of Dallas, Texas
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian (not hispanic. not even a little.)
High School: Public
UW GPA: 3.95
Weighted GPA: 4.8929
SATs: 800 CR, 620 M, 800 W
SAT IIs: 760 US History, 650 Literature
Class Rank: 14/433 (this will rise dramatically after my first semester senior year. I should be more like 8, which would make me salutatorian)
Major: English</p>

<p>APs: World History (4), US History (4), Biology (3), English Language (5). I will take Calc AB, Statistics, Macroeconomics, US Government, English Lit, and Latin next year.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
newspaper staff 10 11 12. Coeditor 11, editor 12.
UIL Literary Criticism 9 10 11 12
UIL Ready Writing 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
UIL Current Issues 10 11 12
UIL Journalism 9 10 11 12
UIL officer 11 12
Amnesty International 11 12
Amnesty officer 12
Junior Classical League/Latin Club 10 11 12
JCL Officer 10 11 12
National Honor Society--inducted as a junior, 12
Trinity United Methodist Church chancel choir 9 10 11 12</p>

<p>I've worked part time (3-4 hrs a week) since the summer after my sophomore year. I worked at a party place from May 2008-January 2009, and I've worked in my church nursery since January 2009.</p>

<p>Awards/Camps/Stuff:
won Peter Jennings Fellowship For Journalists and the Constitution (a nationwide journalism thing, only 30 people selected), 10
Dow Jones Fund newspaper camp at TCU (application only, from DFW area), 10
won Best Reporter at Dow Jones Camp, 10
finalist in Dallas Morning News Journalism Day contest--small school editorial, 10
State competitor for Lit Crit, 9, 11 (seventh place in the state 11th grade)
State competitor for Ready Writing, 11</p>

<p>Community Service:
volunteered at a local preschool (20 hours a week, 6 weeks a year) every summer since middle school
volunteered at Vacation Bible School at my church every summer (10 hours a week, once a year)
lots of random volunteer spurts--help with PTSA craft fair, concession stand, etc.</p>

<p>Recs: should be excellent (Pre-AP/AP Biology teacher, Pre-AP English teacher/UIL coach)</p>

<p>Essays: I, generally speaking, am a fairly strong writer. </p>

<p>I'm going for an interview/tour/info session July 31.
Thank you so much!!</p>

<p>Edit: I forgot to mention that I am continuing in the National Merit competition. I got a 225 on the PSAT, and I will find out if I am a semi-finalist (everyone seems to think I will be) in September.</p>

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<p>Any possible way you could raise your Math SAT to 700ish, or really any at all? That would really help move you from “pretty decent chance” to “confident they’ll give you a close look.”</p>

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<p>I honestly don’t think I can. Although I do okay in my math classes (all As in Pre-AP classes), I get really, really stressed when taking math tests. The 620 came from a retest. I brought it up from a 600 with a LOT of studying. My first SAT scores were 790 CR, 750 W, 600 M.</p>

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<p>You had to have done better on the math PSAT with that 225, but a 1420 is still in pretty good shape for OOS. I’d feel a little safer, honestly, if the numbers were closer together, like 710, 710, but there’s obviously nothing you can do about it.</p>

<p>I say pretty decent chance, the only weak part is Math SAT. OOS Female is always a gamble, though I think being from Texas is better than an Atlantic state.</p>

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<p>I think you have a solid shot.</p>