<p>I finally got my semester 1 grades for this year after being deferred by William and Mary. How much will these help?</p>
<p>Dual Enrollment Cisco Networking 1- A
AP Enviromental Science- A
Honors Physics- A
Modern American History and Literature- A+
AP US Gov- A
AP Statistics- A
AP English Lit- B+</p>
<p>My cumulative GPA jumped from 4.14 to 4.25 and my rank went from 62 to 55/440</p>
<p>I also sent a letter to WM describing what I’ve been doing since I got deferred.</p>
<p>Here are my other stats…do you think I’ll get in RD?</p>
<p>White Male
One of the most prestigious public schools in VA (we have 100+ people with a 4.0 and above)
AP Scholar With Honor after junior year (the only one at my school) (Scores:US History:4, Euro History:5, Macroeconomics: 4, Microeconomics: 4)
SAT: 2170 (770 CR, 640 Math, 760 Writing, 10 Essay)
National Merit Commended Student
Great Recommendations (one from a State Senator/Democratic Candidate for Attorney General of VA who I interned for)
Very Solid Counselor Rec.
I thought my essay was pretty good…who knows…
Young Democrats Vice President and Co-founder
Economics Club Co-Founder
Table Tennis Club Cofounder and Treasurer
President of the Diocese of Southern Virginia Episcopal Youth Community (represents high school kids in a 40,000 person diocese. I preside over a 12 person board that plans 2 large retreats (about 500-800 kids each) and smaller events throughout the year.)
Four years of Varsity Tennis.</p>
<p>I know some of you are probably tired of me posting and asking for chances, but help me out this one last time. I’m really curious just how much y’all think this will help me.</p>
<p>hey I’m not trying to sound pompous but it sounds like your school has grade inflation, not prestige, if 100+ people have 4.0s.</p>
<p>That seems like it would be the case, but other county schools on the same grading system have no where near the high number of high GPA’s as our school. We really just have a ridiculous number of intelligent, driven kids.</p>
<p>I don’t think you should have been deferred in the first place. Is there something you are not telling us? Is there anything in your application that would possibly make them WANT to defer you? Are there a huge number of kids from your school also applying to W & M?</p>
<p>Not a huge number of kids from my school applying. Probably about 10, which isn’t many considering that I live an hour away from WM.</p>
<p>I find it odd that you were deferred in the first place.</p>
<p>Your mid-term grades certainly won’t hurt your chances, but I agree that having 100+ people with greater than 4.0 GPA smacks of grade inflation. In my graduating class of 220 people, only the valedictorian, and <em>maybe</em> the salutatorian had a >4.0 GPA. I was neither of those two people and was admitted at the time. Of course, back then (2000) W&M’s acceptance rate was around 45%. I didn’t attend then, but transferred in 2003.</p>
<p>i am in a class of 150 and at the most 15-30 have 4.0, which makes sense since that is the top 10% of the class. I am at 3.9 but a lot of the kids are 3.7-3.5. And even there, I sort of think that there is grade inflation. I think there is everywhere. It is nuts when so many kids are 4.0-4.5.</p>
<p>my school may have some grade inflation, but its still miles above the other schools with the same grading scales in the same county.</p>
<p>for example…if i went to another high school near my house, friends i have there tell me i’d be ranked in the top 20 easily. the kids there aren’t stupid, but my school’s kids are just particularly driven to do well. it kind of sucks for kids at my school. to make top 10%…its almost a requirement that your life becomes studying and nothing else.</p>
<p>Your class rank was pretty poor when you applied, that is probably why you got deferred. Although, maybe they lauged when they read your counselor recommendation and it said 100+ kids had 4.0+.</p>