Williams or Amherst Admission - Realistic Chances

electronblue
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:03:05 +0000

My daughter at Williams had a couple of B’s at a non-competitive high school and still was admitted. She did have higher test scores than your son though.

I’d recommend considering early decision at whichever school he likes best. Definitely look at Middlebury. Have him keep taking the SAT or ACT too. Some people will disagree with that but it is a matter of a swing of a couple of questions at the top level and he may get lucky. My second daughter got two questions wrong on the whole SAT the first time she took it, well above her PSAT or any practice test she had done. She’s a bright girl but a lot of that was luck and just being in her best frame of mind and body on that day.