Applying to W&L and the Johnson Scholarship

BBDark
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:35:58 +0000

Sens111,

Sweeping statements are never good.

My daughter recently received a Johnson. She also was offered spots at Princeton and Columbia. She opted for W&L because neither Princeton nor Columbia could begin to approach the financial support offered by the Johnson at W&L. It was more important for her to be debt free than leave with 6 figure debt load.

Her stats include NMF, 35 ACT (taken as a sophomore), 2340 SAT, 9 or 10 AP (all 5s one 4), 800 and 790 on the two subject SATs she took, two languages and top 5 out of a class of approximately 650.

There are good quality students at W&L. The northeastern schools do not have a monopoly.