<p>What stats are typically required to be a competitive OOS applicant?</p>
<p>Are you talking for a male or a female? Males have it a bit easier. For OOS females I have read an acceptance rate as low as 10 percent. So figure Ivy-level credentials: GPA, SAT scores, and ECs.</p>
<p>Okay…what about for males?</p>
<p>Really, there’s not that much of a boost for male OOS applicants. Ivy-level credentials, as LurkNess Monster has said, are your best bet. Even then, as with any highly selective college, there’s no guarantee. I think the overall OOS admit rate hovers around 20%, so it’s tough for both genders.</p>
<p>I’d say that Ivy-level credentials would fit in well with the student body at W & M, and that applicants with those credentials should feel fairly comfortable when applying. My oldest d’s roommate chose W & M over Yale for financial reasons, and her boyfriend chose it over Princeton, which was just too close to home for him. There are definitely Ivy-caliber students in Williamsburg. </p>
<p>The admissions dept. used to release separate figures for SAT scores for in and out of state applicants, but they don’t seem to do that any more, even in their common data set. As I recall, there was a pie chart in the viewbook showing OOS applicants averaged 1400-plus back in 2001, and a considerable number were 1500-plus.</p>
<p>But OOS applicants without Ivy credentials are still accepted - even girls. My youngest d’s SAT scores were above the W & M 75th percentile, but her GPA is in A-minus territory. Strong high school, upward trend, and rigorous curriculum, but she’s more a 3.7/3.8 than a 4.0 student. Her ECs are nice, with obvious concentration in one activity, but absolutely not Ivy-caliber.</p>
<p>Of course, there is a different standard applied to ED applicants. My d realizes that what W & M must have liked most about her was her ED status. Not everyone can, or should apply ED, for financial and other reasons. If an OOS student can, and knows that W & M is their definite first choice, the odds become kinder.</p>
<p>OOS is very competitive. Female admit rates are lower, but there is no significant difference in the quality of students (male v. female) admitted.</p>
<p>I’m an oos female that got waitlisted this year with pretty low SATs (1840), 10 AP classes, SAT2 US History - 740, and lots of work experience. I think my interest showed though, maybe that’s how I got on the waitlist. I think the fact that I’m from the west coast may have helped my chances.</p>
<p>im oos female as well and kind of just applied on a whim. my stats are good-ish but not like out of this world as im learning for william and mary (SAT 2150/ GPA 4.02). i was waitlisted as well</p>
<p>i was an oos male- waitlisted
3.2 GPA (Great upward trend)
1410 sat (630,780)
30 ACT
4.2 senior year</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>My D (NY resident) was waitlisted at W&M. 1440/2070 SAT I. 3 SAT II scores were 770, 740, 730. 3.9 GPA. Good ECs and leadership. Visited and interviewed. </p>
<p>It is tough for OOS females, particularly from a big northeastern state.</p>