<p>Manusia, evening is intentionally not a specific time. I would guess it means sometime between 5pm and 9pm east coast time. </p>
<p>Good luck everybody!</p>
<p>Has anyone received the email yet? Good luck to everyone who applied!</p>
<p>In years past, it looks like it has been 8pm east coast time. Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Got accepted</p>
<p>Got deferred :(</p>
<p>My Son just notified me that he got in. He said that he received an email from the school to log into the account. I haven’t seen him this happy in years. Good luck to all!
Go Class of 2018!</p>
<p>got deferred as well, just like what i expected. this sounds like a potential rejection. congrats guys! :D</p>
<p>My son was accepted into the class of 2018. Words cannot express but I will try.</p>
<p>He was at work when he found out, he said all his coworkers gave him a hug and they were telling any random customers that he got into Williams college. As you might expect, the big joke was that some customers said "ok?"and others did a double take that someone working behind the counter possibly was going to one of the best colleges in America. Apparently their hesitation was priceless. He is still there until 11 and we are waiting up for him to come home with all the purple stuff he doesn’t know we bought by mail order which my wife has been hiding. (Good thing we don’t have to return it!)</p>
<p>Best wishes to all. Today December 12 is Christmas in our house !! :)</p>
<p>I’ve been deferred, but it’s not like I expected to get in. I guess I want to know if Williams’ defers mean you still have a chance, or they’re just polite ways of avoiding rejection? What should I do if I want to improve my chances in the RD pool? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I really want to attend Williams but I need to know if its out of reach or not :(</p>
<p>juriya, it’s not a rejection or you would have been rejected. It means they want to read your application in the context of the entire applicant pool. Last year Williams accepted 239 students out of 569 ED applications, so ED is pretty generous at Williams. No one can tell you your chances and kids are admitted every year who were deferred ED. At this point you should do two things. One is to make sure that you have at least one safety, and that you are applying to other schools to which you have a good chance of being admitted. The second is to strengthen your Williams application as much as you can. Hopefully you are doing well in rigorous classes and your mid-year report will reflect that. Any other awards, leadership positions, accomplishments in athletics or the arts can be reported in an update. If you have musical or artistic talent and didn’t submit a supplement, you can prepare and submit one now. Demonstrated interest can also enhance your application if skillfully presented - no desperation and no begging!
My D was accepted early with a scholarship that is only given to a handful of students every year. She took the initiative of sending a (brief) email about a week before decisions were due with all the most important updates to her life/profile and attached her most recent grades, with the comments, rather than just the transcript which is required. The comments happened to be extra stellar for that quarter in 5 AP classes and a full schedule so it can only have helped. Some kids sent another recommendation. You need to be careful, though, that everything you send - recommendations or updates – is adding to the application (not redundant) and that it is all impressive.
And again, make sure you put time, effort and attention on schools to which you are likely to be admitted. Good luck!!!</p>
<p>I was accepted 
Should we make a thread to post our stats?</p>
<p>Please post stats and say if you were a recruited athlete</p>
<p>@honeybee63
Thank you so much for the feedback! I’ve taken a rigorous workload with 4 APs and as of now, I have a 4.0. My ACT score was a 32, 33 super scored. I’m thinking of retaking the test in February. I’ll also try submitting an additional recommendation letter! Do you know if the Admissions Office will accept these? How/where would I send them? Thanks again for the help, hopefully I can get it in later on!</p>
<p>and tell us whether u r an international student or not as well. That matters!</p>
<p>@Manusia
I am not an international student, I’m from California!</p>
<p>@juriya, definitely send all that you can! every little bit will help in admissions. I would say mail it directly to the admissions office.</p>
<p>WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., December 13, 2013—Williams College has offered admission to 237 students under its Early Decision plan. The 124 women and 113 men will comprise 43 percent of the incoming Class of 2018, whose ultimate target size is 550.</p>
<p>Richard Nesbitt, director of admission, said 554 students applied under Early Decision and the quality of the pool was superb. “With so many highly qualified applicants to choose from, the selection process was as keenly competitive as it’s ever been,” he said.</p>
<p>The admitted students represent 194 secondary schools around the world. Thirty-three states and Puerto Rico are represented, with the largest numbers coming from New York (39), Massachusetts (37), California (23), Connecticut (20), New Jersey (15), Ohio (8), Illinois (6), Minnesota (6), Maryland (5), Maine (5) and Florida (5). The countries represented are Canada, China, Costa Rica, France, India, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>American students of color comprise nearly one third of the Early Decision group, including 23 Asian-Americans, 19 African-Americans, 25 Latinos, and two Native Americans. Thirteen students are from families in which neither parent has a four-year college degree. “Once again, our intensive diversity recruitment efforts, including two fall fly-in programs for low-income students, proved highly successful and brought us some outstanding students,” Nesbitt said.</p>
<p>Academically, the Class of 2018 Early Decision contingent rivals any in the college’s past. Standardized test score averages are higher than any previous Early Decision cohort: 716 Critical Reading, 713 Math and 724 Writing and 32 ACT. A large share of this scholarly group (69) indicated an interest in eventually pursuing a Ph.D.</p>
<p>Well-represented are highly rated artists, athletes, musicians, and actors. “I’m constantly amazed at the eclectic mix of talents,” Nesbitt said. “An incoming first-year might find he or she is rooming with a nationally acclaimed jazz saxophonist, an award-winning Hellenic dancer, or an accomplished improvisational comedian who also plays a varsity sport.”</p>
<p>Early Decision applicants commit to attend Williams if admitted. Early Decision letters were released at 6 p.m. EST on Thursday, December 12. The Regular Decision application deadline is January 1, with notification in late March. Students admitted via the Regular Decision plan have until May 1 to decide whether or not they will attend.</p>
<p>[Williams</a>’ Early Decision Admits 237 for 2018 Class / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.](<a href=“Williams' Early Decision Admits 237 for 2018 Class / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.”>Williams' Early Decision Admits 237 for 2018 Class / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.)</p>
<p>Here’s a link to Blueash’s posted article ^^^</p>
<p>Here is the template that many other CC boards use to post their results and accompanying stats and info:</p>
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<p>@UCSDUCD, I posted mine in the official results thread</p>