<p>Waitlisted
3.5 UW GPA
8 APs, hardest possible schedule throughout all of high school (including senior year)
32 ACT (33 or 34 depending how you superscore the ACT - if you superscore)
OOS (MA), white
Strong recs., strong EC’s</p>
<p>I haven’t read through the whole thread or blogs yet, but does anyone know the size of the waitlist this year?</p>
<p>Does not hearing anything yet bode ill?</p>
<p>Decision:Accepted</p>
<p>SAT 1: Verbal: 770
Math: 710
Writing: 670</p>
<p>ACT: Verbal: 36
Math: 28
Sci: 32
Reading: 35
Composite: 33
Writing: 33</p>
<p>SAT II: M2660
LR730
UH700
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98</p>
<p>AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Chem (4) AP Euro (5)</p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load: College Prep Physics, AP Calc AB, AP US, AP English, Chamber Choir, Chorale, Band</p>
<p>Major Awards: National Merit Finalist</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Select Acapella Group, Region State ALL-State, All-Eastern Choirs, Varsity Debate Team (Represented the Team in the Finals) National Honor Society, Marching Band (Co-Section Leader), School Musical (Lead Junior Year)</p>
<p>Volunteer: Teen Assistant in Church Choir, National Honor Society stuff</p>
<p>Essays: Excellent, I made a youtube vid for the optional submission
Teacher Recs: Good
Counselor Rec: Good</p>
<p>Applied for Aid: Yes
Intended Major: Business
State: Michigan
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income: Middle Class
Hooks: none</p>
<p>Strengths: Essays, Excellence in Music, Passion for the school
Weaknesses: Only 4 academic classes senior year, Extracurricular Activities related to my major,</p>
<p>Comments: I’m very excited as William and Mary is far and away my first choice ever since I visited the campus…I just hope everything works out financially</p>
<p>I just got in and am in totallllll disbelief. So happy. Started crying immediately. Can’t form full sentences!!</p>
<p>Waitlisted both at the college AND for the St. Andrews program.</p>
<p>Accepted - OOS</p>
<p>3.55 GPA
4.6/6W
2060 SAT
top 10%</p>
<p>Debate club, International Science, Film Club, Relay for Life - all leadership roles</p>
<p>250 hours of CS</p>
<p>great recs, especially counselors</p>
<p>spent a lot of time on my essay - wrote about a risky topic</p>
<p>11 APs
6 IBs</p>
<p>Waitlisted.
In State
Female
SAT- 2140
ACT- 30
GPA- 4.283
8 APs
Wrote the Optional Essay
Good extracurriculars but didn’t have a lot of volunteer hours.</p>
<p>Reflection: I was disappointed but won’t be accepting the waitlist. I got into my #1.</p>
<p>Congrats to those who were accepted.</p>
<p>Waitlisted
OOS
Sat: 1980 (CR 660 M 680 W 640)
GPA: 3.8
Amazing leadership and ECs
Arts supplement submission</p>
<p>Very disappointing to a deferred from ED applicant to be given a “hold on we might want you” once again, but also very thankful for that small thread of hope that still exists.</p>
<p>I am aware that my college experience won’t be any worse without W&M, just different…but it still hurts.</p>
<p>W&M Admissions,
Thank you for the acceptance email. After a very hard week being wait-listed by UVa, I was worried my fate would be similar at W&M. But, at the same time, I had a good feeling about my W&M application because I kept reading about your holistic process and delicate approach to every app. Your process is one that I am truly thankful for and one I am glad your committee believes so strongly in. It was great to see your actions match your words. Because of your process, you didn’t miss the opportunity to accept a great student, that I believe other universities may have wrongly misinterpreted or overlooked.</p>
<p>Kudos Again,
I am excited to join the Tribe.</p>
<p>Waitlisted
Out of State
Female
SAT- 1900
GPA- 3.7 UW
4.3 W
ECs- class president, poms (dance team) captain, dance competition team</p>
<p>I did the optional essay and personally thought it was very good. I am actually a little shocked that I was even wait listed, but I am very grateful since W&M is my #1 school. I have to give some of the credit of my being wait listed to the fact that I sent in a common app. arts supplement and also the fact that I met with the head of the dance department. I plan on doing whatever I can to get off the wait list and join the W&M class of 2015!!!</p>
<p>Proud father of student -</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!
SAT: Math: 750 Reading: 740 Writing: 800
SAT II’s: 750 - 770
AP: All 5’s
GPA: 4.58 W, 4.0 UW</p>
<p>White/Japanese male.
Started a big multi-school music service club, tons of EC hours fundraising for a surgical charity.
Californian, dude!!!
Surfer, songwriter, essay is about what my kid does for fun. (Surfs and writes songs!)
He’s at a study group right now, as usual!</p>
<p>THANK YOU W&M, especially for the stress-free, very helpful and kind admission process. We truly appreciate it. You have been the nicest, best, most reasonable admissions department we’ve dealt with and it reflects well on your entire school.</p>
<p>Rejected 
OOS female student (hispanic)
SAT: 1600 (I know, not so great)
GPA: 3.8
Tons of extracurricular activities, and community service “my passion”. </p>
<p>I had so much faith I would get accepted, just like many others who also got rejected </p>
<p>Congratulations on those accepted to W&M, :)</p>
<p>I got accepted. I’m from Turkey and my SAT is only 2010, so it’s pretty surprising.</p>
<p>I don’t think I can go unless they offer financial aid, though, which we’re having trouble with.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED! </p>
<p>white OOS female
2050 SAT
3.8 GPA
great essay/recs
unique extra curriculars</p>
<p>so excited!!</p>
<p>My D accepted, proud father moment:</p>
<p>New Jersey
ACT 34, 35 supersized (36 /36/34/32)
GPA 4.0, Class Rank 3 of 380
Good balance of extracurricular activities.</p>
<p>Optional essay was a very clever heartfelt piece on the disappointment she felt at age 11 not getting into Hogwarts, and how we all need to find a little bit of magic in life to inspire us.</p>
<p>My wife and I must compliment the Wm and Mary Admissions office. Here are our awards:
-Best college visit and tour-from greeting to video to friendliness. No pomposity, no chest-beating. No stodgy guy in a suit telling us why your child should be considered honored to be accepted to such a fine world class university. Very sincere and happy people. </p>
<p>-Best communications to student and parent-example-we have your stuff, now trust that we will do everything we can to give your son/daughter the opportunity to be fully evaluated.</p>
<p>-Best participation in College Confidential-you feel that they get the angst and stress of this process.</p>
<p>-Best welcoming good news e-mail.</p>
<p>Excellent job.</p>
<p>Accepted !<br>
SAT 2250 M 800, R 710, W 740
SAT2 Math 2 760, Bio M 740
UW GPA 3.9+
top 3%
EC’s usual sports + GS + other
NJ
Female
White
no financial aid requested</p>
<p>special thanks to W&M Admin for great communications.</p>
<p>Congrats to all of those admitted and thank you everyone for the kudos and kind thoughts on our process and presence on CC. </p>
<p>To those not admitted, we understand your disappointment and we are sorry the news cannot be better. All of the Decisions Decisions Blogs are posted ([W&M</a> Blogs Admit It!](<a href=“http://blogs.wm.edu/author/admiss/]W&M”>Admit It!, Author at The William & Mary Blogs)) if you want more information about the decisions made.</p>
<p>For those asking questions about the waitlist, please review the waitlist FAQ site linked in your email. Generally about 1000-1500 students elect to remain on the waitlist for consideration.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I:CR:590 M:690 W:590
ACT:29
GPA W: 4.6 something
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): currently 16 (was 18) out of 410 (top 5%)
Senior Year Course Load: Dual Enrollment English, AP Bio, AP Chem, Honors US History, obviously more since she is 4 x 4 schedule but I actually don’t know all her classes. </p>
<p>Reflection: I wish DD had taken studying for SATs as something worthwhile. She never slacks on something assigned directly but def didn’t feel she needed to review at all for SATs</p>
<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: VERY low SAT scores for highly competive applicant pool, DD has ADD so has a hard time on long tests. Never used meds.</p>
<p>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:Accepted to all applied, except W&M and UVA…both waitlisted. Since career goal is Veterinarian, VA Tech is probably best choice for DD anyway. But, for some reason, she doesn’t want to go there. 
At this point, she has accepted staying on list at both W&M and UVA. No idea where she will end up. Now all decisions are in and she is undecided. Let the fun begin!!! May 1st will come too quickly.</p>
<p>We encourage you to read our recent Admit It! Blog on waitlist decisions ([W&M</a> Blogs Decisions Decisions: Waitlist Edition](<a href=“http://blogs.wm.edu/2011/03/29/decisions-decisions-waitlist-edition/]W&M”>http://blogs.wm.edu/2011/03/29/decisions-decisions-waitlist-edition/)). Hopefully it will provide some context. Any non-admission decision is not a reflection of any weakness on the part of the applicant but is rather a reflection of the incredible strength of our applicant pool.</p>
<p>While we realize it’s tough to see it this way, a waitlist decision is a positive decision. It reflects the very strong credentials your student put forward.</p>
<p>@Frankur: word!..and, congratulations to your daughter, and all others accepted 
</p>
<p>(Joy at our household this morning, also! hooray!)</p>
<p>It’s true: William and Mary is a genuinely wonderful school, academically, while functioning on a human, not super-human, scale…for which I’m grateful. It doesn’t suffer from the bombastically annoying gas-bag elitism that, we felt, animates the communication coming from other selective schools. That fake-honorable atmosphere of deflected self-congratulation is, in my opinion, exquisitely grotesque…and not very friendly, either On some of those school tours, you’re meant to understand: your kid is uniquely privileged by just bearing witness to our imposing Disney-goth campus and overly precious traditional rituals…barf. </p>
<p>…way to intimidate 18-year-olds with power architecture and tribal-bonds that have, actually, nothing to do with education…</p>
<p>I think the difference is what we’ve all noted, here: individual students, and their families, matter at W&M. The school doesn’t exist to inflate the egos of the accepted…but, rather, to educate them. I was admitted 30 years ago, as a poor girl from a single-parent household living under the national poverty line, and W&M offered me the opportunity to work for, and pay my own way, to a world class education. I’ll never forget that example of <em>true</em> privilege. </p>
<p>(my mother, even today, does not refer to the school as “William and Mary”…but as “dear old William and Mary”.)</p>
<p>I sincerely want to thank the admissions team for conveying this sense of care and respect, to all applicants, regardless of their academic profile. You’re wonderful!</p>
<p>…and to the applicants who were not accepted this morning: please don’t take this decision as a personal gauge of your worth, as a person or student. I fully expected my girl to get the heave-ho (she’s not a perfect student in any way)…and had rehearsed my comfort-speech in the middle of the night, just in case. The applicant pool is simply far too enriched (…sometimes artificially) with impressive kids and is groaning under the weight of too many qualified people. Many of these kids have been groomed, for literally years, by armies of tutors and super expensive educational consultants to look good on paper, but who may not be possessed of the intellectual honesty, or raw bravery, to speak with their own voice…but hey! they sure can take tests </p>
<p>Those of you feeling sad or disappointed today can take comfort in knowing that the opportunity to express your ideas and curiosity, become a uniquely original person, and do great things, is not tied to a specific school…but is linked, instead, to your desire to get started on your fabulous, fun, and interesting life. Happily, no one knows where that adventure will go…and it’s all just beginning for you. Best of luck to everyone!</p>