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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would my 4.06 (after Junior year, but currently straight A's as a senior)/ 1320 SAT/ 8 APS/ no fourth year foreign language/ no outstanding EC's science or business included Fairfax County daughter who did the W&M open house, tour, and interview but then decided not to do ED because she really wants to go to JMU have been accepted if she had done the ED1? We'll never know but I'm guessing no?[/quote]

My just sub 4.1 after junior year unhooked white female was admitted ED.  Current junior and doing very well.  Also, she had 3 years of HN science (Bio, Chem, Physics), but no 4th year.  And went off the HN math track beginning in 10th w/ A2 (standard A2 and Pre-Calc, and standard not AP Calc).  Ton of demonstrated interest, and a lot of things in the plus column/ had unusual course selections and an unusual profile.  Took 12 humanities APs— everything offered at the HS but Psych (and only 1 world language). 36/36 on ACT reading and English (35 composite).  Got credit for 9 years of foreign language in HS— through AP Latin, Level 3 in a second language and 1 year in a third language (self taught one year of Latin, one year of her second language and did an in person summer program for a year in a language not offered in her HS, but that she went on to major in in college, when she is learning a second, related language in her own.  Real foreign language whiz). All the foreign language credit plus 4 years of orchestra meant a lot of unweighted credit.  Also, was very involved in a heavily STEM EC and had been involved since ES.   Etc. Her counselor at a top 1/3 FCPS HS said she would get in ED but probably not RD.  She was right on ED.

Very pointy humanities kid, who applied for IR & foreign language, but ACT scores and EC showed she could handle the STEM required for the degree. Still an unhooked, white NOVA female with GPA below 25%. It happens.

I think a positive of ED, especially at smaller colleges, is that they can spend more time with each application, which lets them look at an unusual transcript like DD’s and see the method to the madness.  [/quote]

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