freaking out about grades good enough for williams

jrpar
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:32:20 +0000

Speed, it’s really hard for any of us to say - senior grades are looked at, but overall you’ve got a great record and great stats to date, BC calc is a tough class and B+'s in other rigorous courses are hardly bad either. Williams will also be looking at what you are presenting on the rest of your application.

A Williams admissions officer told me last summer that Williams does call schools in March to get third quarter grades of some students as they are making their decision - so put your effort into making sure you do as well as possible in the next quarter. If you do really well - proactively send off the 3Q grades. (And it couldn’t hurt to contact the coach and make sure the coach knows that Williams is your first choice (if that is the case)).

Good luck!