future or a dream?

Colleges & Universities College of William and Mary
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<p>Hey I was wondering if this looks like what college of William + Mary tends to like for music/anthropology majors: </p>

<p>*GPA: 4.09 weighted (going to rise)
3.82 unweighted (same)
*Rank: 31/317
*SAT: (they’re not fair)…writing 610, crit reading 520, math 550.
*ACT: Taking it June 10th.
*9th grade i took almost all honors (I have 2 B’s on my transcript and 1 b+), 10th grade i took 2 honors but got A’s across the board, this year (11) i took 1 ap and 4 honors and have all A’s. Next year, I am taking 4 AP’s (2 AP and 2 ap weighted honors) and 1 actual honors class.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/interesting facts:
*People to people student ambassador program (summer of 2002)
*GLSEN board member (helps teach others about diversity–only high school board member)
*junior mendelssohn choir (2 years i a row, and soon to be next year!)
*voice lessons (past 2 years)
*piano lessons (11 1/2 years)
*cantoring for my rabbi for high holidays
*jazz choir (including a performance at PNC park, Pittsburgh’s baseball stadium–soon to be 2 years)
*chamber choir (most elite choir in high school-soon to be 4 years)
*County chorus
*District chorus
*I am part of the Social Action Committee at my temple (plans/puts together blood drives by red cross, meels on wheels, etc.)
*Played piano for high school orchestra in 9th grade
*Classical Singer competition
*National Honors Society
*Played piano/sung in numerous nursing homes for the past several years.

  • (I might be writing for the local “free” newspaper to get experienced w/writing).
    *Anime Club in 9th grade.
    *Played piano @ pilgrimages @ many churches for the holidays.
    *I will be doing an apprenticeship w/Pittsburgh Opera (for high school students) next year!</p>

<p>Thanks!!</p>

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<p>anybody?? please</p>

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<p>you’re best bet would be to submit the fine art supplement. What you stated major is on your application is not taken into consideration since it will more likely than not change. That said, your SAT’s are 1170/1600 I’d try to get them up 200 points or so.</p>

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<p>Your GPA is in line to get in, but considering that you live out of state (I see Pittsburgh a lot) and have a 1070 (Math and Reading) on the SAT, to be honest with you, you’re dreaming. Sorry to be harsh, but the SAT score is why.</p>

<p>The average W&M student scores about a 1350 in Math and Verbal; the admissions offices doesn’t know exactly what to do with writing yet. I saw somewhere than a W&M student averages about a 2040 including writing, so your biggest task this summer is to improve that SAT score about 300 points. I tends to be the easiest to improve in math because you only need to know up to about algebra 2 to know how to do it; your wrong answers come from trap answers. In verbal, get one of those SAT vocab books and drill on it.</p>

<p>The Admissions Office will also not judge your application based on what major you want, and you don’t apply to any specific school or department within W&M like larger universities do; the office will see you as how you fit in with the College as a whole, because you may very well not major in music or anthro. </p>

<p>I am an alum of W&M and I actually have been in the music program so I can help answer any questions on it.</p>

<p>Good luck with your college search and on the SAT.</p>

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<p>wmalum, what did you do within the music program? Were you in the Orchestra?</p>

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<p>yes I was for junior and senior year. I was in the band for all of college pretty much.</p>