Not sure if you’ll see this, but curious why you chose to apply through St. Andrews v. William & Mary? We are about to start organzing our app materials, and I note that the essay for the JDP on St. Andrews side is WAY shorter (400 words) than on the W&M side (up to 2000 words). Are there other advantages/disadvantages I’m missing?
The biggest difference is the school you apply to is the school you start at. (You can only apply to one or the other for the joint degree program). St Andrews also has a required interview, and I imagine is a much harder admit if you are a student coming from the US. Most of the UK colleges also require you to submit testing and may have minimum scores on things such as SAT and AP tests (UK colleges are less holistic in their approach to admissions).
Unless you are from Virginia, William and Mary is going to be much harder to get into than St. Andrews (assuming you’ve taken AP courses and have good AP test scores)
Is there anyone that used an admissions councilor with William and Mary credentials that can help us navigate the deferred to RD process and give advice.
WM Common Data Set is out for last admission cycle. Common Data Set | William & Mary
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Former counselor here. There’s not much for you to do. The best thing you can really do is have great mid-year grades since those will definitely come into play the next time the application is read!
In general (and especially with deferral) they want to find reasons to admit you, not to reject you. There’s limited space in ED, so sometimes RD is inevitable. Keep in mind that you don’t know what the RD pool will be like. How you stand in your school or region’s pool may look different from ED to RD given the influx of applications.
It’s always great for the student to have personal communication with their admission counselor to keep them apprised of any major updates and to reaffirm their interest in W&M (since these are kept on file) but there isn’t much they can say to change the outcome.
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