<p>We appreciate everyone’s anxiety and thoughtful responses. We hope that those of you are admitted will visit campus in the coming week’s (smart choice – like your admit pack says) and contact us should you have any questions about W&M and whether or not it’s a good fit for you.</p>
<p>For those of you not admitted or those of you who have chosen to go elsewhere, we wish you all the best as you conclude your college search process.</p>
<p>LolyGAGHa: here are my D’s stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 4.93 weighted
Class rank: 3/432
SAT: 1970, (M&CR 1330)
ACT 32</p>
<p>Lots of extra-curricular activities and officer positions.</p>
<p>She’s a little worried about her SAT scores but we’ll just have to wait and see!</p>
<p><< Class rank: 3/432 >></p>
<p>If your daughter gets in that’s probably the reason. A class rank that high with lower SATs will be seen as overachieving; perfect SATs with a lower rank will be seen as underachieving. Who would you admit? The 4.93 GPA is nice but is partly a sign of a school that weights everything – it’s not possible to have a GPA anywhere near that high at my son’s school.</p>
<p>The few kids on the UVA board who have been admitted with low SATs are all very high in their classes. My son didn’t get into either UVa or W&M. He had 1360/2010 on his SATs, and I thought his extracurriculars weren’t bad: captain of both a sports and an academic team, some volunteer work. But his class rank was 40/300, which falls short of Top 10% – there are various reasons for that, mostly that he tried to do too much last year and got burned on his grades.</p>
<p>W&M hasn’t posted numbers for this year’s class, other than that they had more than 12,000 applications. College Board mentions around 1400 freshmen in a given year; if W&M accepts 2800 to fill 1400 spots, that’s an acceptance rate of around 23%. So there will be some “declined” applicants with 4+ GPAs and 2300+ SATs.</p>
<p>thin envelope… boo</p>
<p>what state are you located in acp?</p>
<p>My sibling has been accepted (VA resident) but has a conflict on the Day for Admitted Students. The agenda doesn’t look to be a whole lot different than the usual open house/campus visit. Anybody know if this is worthwhile?</p>
<p>I’m surprised he and family members have to pay $10 each for lunch.</p>
<p>jdalu75: The high GPA is due her getting all A’s in all of the AP courses that she has taken. She goes to a large public HS that has an extensive AP curriculum. I’m sure W&M looks at the unweighted GPA also which would help kids that don’t have access to lots of AP classes.</p>
<p>i’m from connecticut</p>
<p>MechWahoo…in my opinion, as a parent, it’s worth it. Lunch isn’t cafeteria style… Outdoor picnic in the sunken gardens. Undecided daughter had many great offers. Last one, WM and she’s been very happy!</p>
<p>does anyone know how long it will take for my letter to reach me here in california? probably won’t get it today but tomorrow?</p>
<p>rejected 10char</p>
<p>mamagx3: I’m not disputing that your daughter’s taken a lot of AP classes and that she’s done well in them. But comparing GPAs from one school system to another is apples and oranges, which was my point. Some schools weight honors, advanced, accelerated, and AP classes; some weight 0.5, some weight 1.0; some have +/- grading where 97 and above is an A+ worth 4.3 points, 90-92 is an A- worth 3.7 points. At my son’s school a 92 is a B and a 100 is an A.</p>
<p>A student attending a school with no +/- grading, 93 and above an A, 86-92 a B, and weighting only for AP and Dual Enrollment classes can’t get near a 5.0 unless that’s all the student takes. Nobody ever posts about taking 25 AP classes, so I assume no one ever takes that many.</p>
<p>I know of one student who had 17 APs in her four years. She got into W & M last spring, but elected to attend UVA.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that Loly </p>
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<li>what are your other choices? where are you still waititng to hear from?</li>
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<p>2011VAMom- the college admission process has been very disappointing for me. i’ve gotten rejected by all the places i actually want to go and have nowhere left to hear from.</p>
<p>Loly - that’s horrible! 
I’m really sorry to hear that… The college admission process should be fun and exciting… not full of rejections… And I thought my life sucked because I got rejected by the top two LACs… </p>
<p>I’m probably getting rejected from William and Mary also, though.</p>
<p>Loly- I’m so sorry! I was really rooting for you with UNC… do you know where you’re going now? </p>
<p>I got rejected from W&M today (NC). Ugh. I’m disappointed by the whole process too.</p>
<p>Loly - that sucks. What are your options now? What do you think you may do?</p>
<p>My sis lives in Maryland and have not received it yet? Do all rejects get it late?</p>
<p>Congrats to all that got in!!!</p>