<p>Your transcript is a strong suit for you…good job on keeping focused last year.
Working in a hardware store…I feel a good essay coming on.</p>
<p>If you would like to know more about Furman, let me know. It is less selective than Wake but quite challenging in the classrooms. They really want kids from outside of the SE with your stats that are males. You might stand out there if you did the merit application essays. Very southern vibe but new President…from Chicago, Yale Football player and first in his class at Duke Law…a first amendment guy who we are excited about. Sometimes a match college allows you to shine and makes for excellent grad school options. My classmates went to Harvard Med, Yale Div, Univ of Chicago (chem), Stanford, Northwestern (music), Vanderbilt (law), UVA (law) and to the more typical southern state grad schools native to students. Furman gets fewer Middle Atlantic state applicants and more from Florida than you will find at Wake.<br>
Our son liked the sports scene at Wake however.<br>
good luck…still hope you will change your screen name and reappear here…so we can greet you in your new more neutral persona.
The University of Richmond has a good bit of merit dollars and a strong program as well. Merit money at Wake Forest is extremely elusive and hard to locate.<br>
In VA in public schools, Wm and Mary is know for being highly selective like UVA but they get many fewer male applicants so sometimes guys get a break there (at the expense of equally or better qualified female applicants). We greatly revere Wm and Mary. Google and you can read about the disparity there for female applicants or merely type in Common Data Set in any college search window and you will see that males often get an advantage at Liberal Arts colleges where fewer male applicants congregate and all schools are eager to keep as close to a 50/50 balance as possible.
of the Rice/Duke/Vandy/Emory/Wash U medium sized research institutions with national reputations, Emory is by far the easiest admission…but Emory doesn’t admit students who do not demonstrate interest and whose applications do not display an understanding of their missions. Emory has a great impact in Atlanta …I used to work on their campus. Vandy’s RD was 16% last year…and less in regular decision cycle. Odds of admission to Dartmouth are quite remote for people with top test scores. (Eldest son knew this but didn’t quite believe it till the rejection letter arrived.)</p>