<p>Thanks all.</p>
<p>There are several people at my school that also surprisingly got rejected/wait listed while others surprising got in, so I’m not sure what W&M valued the most in applications this year.</p>
<p>It is what it is and all I can do is keep my hopes up for UVA. If they don’t feel I am right for their school either I will indeed try to transfer (unless I end up loving CNU/VCU like soccerguy stated).</p>
<p>Other than your SATs, which are a little below W&M’s average, your transcript is MUCH better than mine, and I got waitlisted.</p>
<p>I’m pulling for UVA too. Good luck!</p>
<p>Nick, truly I am stunned. I really thought you would be accepted to William and Mary! I imagine that you are very confused and disappointed. I’ve got my fingers crossed for you at UVA. </p>
<p>Sincere thanks for coming back on this thread and letting us know. Hang in there dude, everything will work out. I hear that UVA letters will be out before the end of this week. </p>
<p>Wishing you the very best of luck,
Pedsox</p>
<p>kta - I guess you fit what William & Mary was looking for more than I did. Thank you and good luck to you as well!</p>
<p>pedsox - I will admit I was fairly confident that I would not be straight rejected. I find out about UVA in 3.5 hours O_O</p>
<p>effing wait listed… I’m tired of this…</p>
<p>Nick Mc I’m very sorry to hear of your waitlist at UVA and rejection from William and Mary. It still confuses me. I wish you sincere luck on your college admissions process.</p>
<p>NickMc: Was your essay strong? I haven’t heard back from W&M yet (good or bad), but for some reason they seem like the sort of college that would really look hard at the essays – personal, artistic voice… did you do the optional essay?</p>
<p>This information has made me extremely nervous, being that my stats are fairly close to yours :S I would really like to know how all these colleges decide who is admitted. I thought you would have been accepted no problem, especially with your long dedication to Boy Scouts–that shows persistence.</p>
<p>Anyway, incredibly sorry to hear the bad news. A rejection letter really does feel like a blow to the gut (I just got rejected from Rice); but keep your head up high! You seem like a stellar student. Good luck with everything.</p>
<p>I never like my own essays, but the people that I had proof them seemed to think they were good. I don’t enjoy writing though, so they couldn’t have been amazing.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Going to a safety school is the blow to the gut, considering I want to study business administration. Seeing that keeping my hopes up didn’t seem to work for me thus far, I am going to assume I will be attending CNU next semester and will just have to try for the transfer. Now to find all the CNU mail that I carelessly tossed to the side.</p>
<p>William and Mary went all crazy and accepted 50+% (I almost died of laughter when I saw that % in an article on their website) of ED applicants this year, so I guess I can see some reason for low RD acceptance rate, but you should still have been a prime candidate either way.</p>
<p>I am frankly as shocked as everyone else here at your rejection and hope you are able to transfer in where you want next year.</p>
<p>I’m somewhat surprised that you didn’t get wait listed at list, but I’m not completely shocked. There has to be a balance between how much you challenge yourself, your GPA, class rank, and SAT scores. I think the SAT might have hurt you, but I heard that they look at community service a LOT. As you are an Eagle Scout that definitely should have helped. Who knows, the admissions process is crazy sometimes.</p>
<p>And as for the ED acceptance rate, what I’ve heard is that the rate is supposed to be significantly higher because a LOT of students that are passionate about the college choice (because it’s binding) and quite a bit that are more than qualified apply early.</p>