Anonymous
Post 05/22/2023 10:19     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:My DC got admitted EA to engineering with 2C and 6B. Took 14 APs and had a 36 ACT. Good EC but not excellent.


FCPS or? What's the GPA - weighted and unweighted? What's the area of study? Any hooks/URM?
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 21:07     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:They have engineering and a combined program with Columbia. https://www.wm.edu/as/undergraduate/more-pathways/engineering/index.php


Yeah but you aren't admitted to that directly nor do you indicate that on your app. PP was definitely confusing W&M with a different school.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 19:37     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
They have engineering and a combined program with Columbia. https://www.wm.edu/as/undergraduate/more-pathways/engineering/index.php
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 18:43     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only publics from *Northern* Virginia matters, if that's your student.


This. You shouldn't have any if you're from a NOVA public, per staff at our HS. It's rare you'll get in with Bs.


This is completely false. My mom lives works in Financial Services at W&M and this is my sons target school. She friends with everyone in admissions and what they much prefer is rigor. A B in AP calc is not the same as a B in academic history.

Your counselors are incorrect.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 16:54     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DC got admitted EA to engineering with 2C and 6B. Took 14 APs and had a 36 ACT. Good EC but not excellent.


They don't have engineering?


Nor EA.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 16:51     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:My DC got admitted EA to engineering with 2C and 6B. Took 14 APs and had a 36 ACT. Good EC but not excellent.


They don't have engineering?
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 16:30     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only publics from *Northern* Virginia matters, if that's your student.


This. You shouldn't have any if you're from a NOVA public, per staff at our HS. It's rare you'll get in with Bs.
Try not to feed into the vortex of insanity from DCMU.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 16:20     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
My DC got admitted EA to engineering with 2C and 6B. Took 14 APs and had a 36 ACT. Good EC but not excellent.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2023 12:08     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:I did get a vibe that most science majors focus on the life sciences and may be trying for med school. But my son really liked it and the physics prof he talked to was super nice and encouraging. I think my son liked the generally intellectual vibe. Plus the frisbee! I
think it felt good to really like a place that doesn’t have a ridiculous single digit acceptance rate.


W&M has also has a fair number of majors on a percentage basis in majors like Chemistry, Physics, and Geology. For majors like Physics, even some large publics have relatively few undergraduate majors. They may easily have more faculty than majors.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 13:08     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
I did get a vibe that most science majors focus on the life sciences and may be trying for med school. But my son really liked it and the physics prof he talked to was super nice and encouraging. I think my son liked the generally intellectual vibe. Plus the frisbee! I
think it felt good to really like a place that doesn’t have a ridiculous single digit acceptance rate.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 10:14     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Is W&M a match or a reach for an OOS white boy with a 1560 SAT from a STEM magneT, all As so far. Unhooked. Won’t do ED.


A match. They also have more F than M students so your white boy is in with a chance.


To be a match, I think he needs to show he’s a good match. Based on what you’ve said, W&M isn’t an obvious choice and they do care about demonstrated interest. His stats are very strong.


Thanks for responding. But why isn’t W&M an obvious choice? Bc we’re out of state? My kid liked it a lot when we visited…


Very high stats science magnet kid from oos. A more typical profile would be a student interested in IR or Government with an SAT in the 1400s. I’d assume he has other top choices. But they’d love a high stats boy interested in science. Interview slots are open now - reserve one and show that interest.


William and Mary is very strong in base sciences (Chemistry, Biology, Physics) and cross-disciplinary areas like Neuroscience. The commitment to STEM teaching is strong and most STEM undergraduates do faculty-mentored research. It is close to the top for public universities in percentage of undergraduates going on to get STEM PhDs. The Medical school admit rate is something like 25 points above the national average.


We toured the integrated science center, which has been built over a nearly 20 year period. The made a concerted effort to brings STEM areas together to foster interdisciplinary study, collaboration, and research. It was very nice.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 09:59     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is W&M a match or a reach for an OOS white boy with a 1560 SAT from a STEM magneT, all As so far. Unhooked. Won’t do ED.


A match. They also have more F than M students so your white boy is in with a chance.


To be a match, I think he needs to show he’s a good match. Based on what you’ve said, W&M isn’t an obvious choice and they do care about demonstrated interest. His stats are very strong.


Thanks for responding. But why isn’t W&M an obvious choice? Bc we’re out of state? My kid liked it a lot when we visited…


Very high stats science magnet kid from oos. A more typical profile would be a student interested in IR or Government with an SAT in the 1400s. I’d assume he has other top choices. But they’d love a high stats boy interested in science. Interview slots are open now - reserve one and show that interest.


William and Mary is very strong in base sciences (Chemistry, Biology, Physics) and cross-disciplinary areas like Neuroscience. The commitment to STEM teaching is strong and most STEM undergraduates do faculty-mentored research. It is close to the top for public universities in percentage of undergraduates going on to get STEM PhDs. The Medical school admit rate is something like 25 points above the national average.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 07:53     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is W&M a match or a reach for an OOS white boy with a 1560 SAT from a STEM magneT, all As so far. Unhooked. Won’t do ED.


A match. They also have more F than M students so your white boy is in with a chance.


To be a match, I think he needs to show he’s a good match. Based on what you’ve said, W&M isn’t an obvious choice and they do care about demonstrated interest. His stats are very strong.


Thanks for responding. But why isn’t W&M an obvious choice? Bc we’re out of state? My kid liked it a lot when we visited…


Very high stats science magnet kid from oos. A more typical profile would be a student interested in IR or Government with an SAT in the 1400s. I’d assume he has other top choices. But they’d love a high stats boy interested in science. Interview slots are open now - reserve one and show that interest.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 05:43     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is W&M a match or a reach for an OOS white boy with a 1560 SAT from a STEM magneT, all As so far. Unhooked. Won’t do ED.


A match. They also have more F than M students so your white boy is in with a chance.


To be a match, I think he needs to show he’s a good match. Based on what you’ve said, W&M isn’t an obvious choice and they do care about demonstrated interest. His stats are very strong.


Thanks for responding. But why isn’t W&M an obvious choice? Bc we’re out of state? My kid liked it a lot when we visited…
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2023 20:30     Subject: William and Mary - how many Bs did your student have and still get admitted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is W&M a match or a reach for an OOS white boy with a 1560 SAT from a STEM magneT, all As so far. Unhooked. Won’t do ED.


A match. They also have more F than M students so your white boy is in with a chance.


To be a match, I think he needs to show he’s a good match. Based on what you’ve said, W&M isn’t an obvious choice and they do care about demonstrated interest. His stats are very strong.