Decisions, Decisions — 2014 Spring Transfer Edition
We Admit It! We’re pretty proud of ourselves. For the first time, we are able to release decisions to spring transfer applicants while simultaneously releasing notifications to Early Decision applicants. We are thrilled to be able to notify spring transfer applicants earlier thereby providing those admitted with more time to navigate the enrollment process. Below are the logistics of the decision launch itself and an explanation of the decisions made.
Logistics
- Decision emails were sent this evening (December 5) to the email address provided in your Common Application. It will take a bit of time for the emails to leave our server and reach your inbox but as of the posting of this blog, all emails have been launched.
- Decision emails are sent to all applicants (assuming your application is complete), regardless of decision.
- All students are encouraged to check their spam/junk folders in case the email landed there rather than your inbox.
- The sender of the email will be College of William & Mary and the subject will be either “Good News” or “William & Mary Admission Decision”
- Those who are admitted will also receive a formal admission packet in the mail next week. Those who are not admitted will only receive the decision email.
- If your application was complete and you did not receive a decision email from us, please don’t panic. There are a number of reasons this could have happened. Please follow up with us on Monday. We will investigate what happened and report back to you. Assuming your application was complete and a decision email was launched, we will send the decision email again that evening and we will mail a hard copy to you.
- Note: as decisions make their way to your inboxes, we will sign off until later this evening. Please review this blog in its entirety for answers to any immediate questions. We will respond to any other questions or comments later this evening.
Decisions
Admit: Congratulations! Welcome to the Tribe. We are thrilled to have you hopefully join the classes of 2017 and 2018. Your stories and experiences will enrich our campus community. A more detailed packet of materials will be sent out to you next week (and it includes your official admission letter signed personally by Dean Whitney Link). It also includes a preliminary transfer credit evaluation (woot, woot!) and a W&M decal so you can display your Tribe Pride for all the world to see. We know there’s a lot to consider, and a lot to get done in a short amount of time (spring move-in day is only about six weeks away). But we promise it’s all worth it, and we’re here to assist you every step of the way. Congratulations again. One Tribe. And now it’s yours.
Deny: Let us start by saying that we are certainly sorry that we are not able to offer you admission. It is important to know that we do not have the option to waitlist those who apply for spring admission (the timeline from admission offer to arriving on campus is so truncated that it doesn’t allow for a waitlist process to play itself out). So there are many students who had a stronger application than a deny decision implies. There are certainly students who with more time (and therefore more college coursework and more grades) could be competitive for admission at a future date. There are likewise applicants who were unfortunately not competitive for admission. Just like with our freshman applicants, this is more reflective of the overall strength of our applicant pool than any lack of accomplishment on the part of an individual applicant. We hope that you do have other great options before you for your next collegiate step. We wish all of you the best of luck in all of your future collegiate endeavors.
Wendy Livingston ’03, M.Ed. ‘09
Associate Dean of Admission
Comments are closed on posts older than one year, but we still want to hear from you. If you have a comment or question for us, please email admission@wm.edu.
@Everyone, as we mentioned above we are going to sign off for awhile and let everyone check their emails and process their decisions. We will be back on tonight to address any questions or concerns.
Wow, I cannot believe this!! It is such an honor to be accepted at such a fine school. Thank you so much!!!!
@Morgan, don’t thank us. You worked hard, you accomplished a great deal and we’re humbled to have the first members of the Class of 2019 as part of W&M.
Hey, I’m trying to pay my enrollment deposit. I activated my WMuserid and created a password; however, when I go to pay my deposit the system says my username and password are invalid. I have changed my password three times and it still won’t work. Any idea what I can do? Thanks.
@Help, we would suggest calling Information Technology tomorrow (757-221-4357). They can assist you with making sure your username and password are working properly.
Hi =) Thanks for the update and all the hard work done! Just wondering if this means ALL decisions regarding spring transfers have been made? Because on Friday night instead of a decision email I only received one confirming that my application is complete. Or should I be expecting the decision to come on Monday then? Waiting hopefully while preparing for my finals!
@Waiting Hopefully, if we just completed your application on Friday it could take a few days for it to be reviewed and for us to release a decision. You should receive a decision email within the next few days.
Thank you for such prompt reply! One more question: although the confirmation email says that my application is complete, I’m still waiting for my current university to fill out the College Report and email it to W&M. I was told, however, by one of the staff from the Admission Office that as long as it arrives sometime next week it would be fine. Would the arrival time of this report affect my waiting time then?
@Waiting Hopefully, it could. You can certainly ask that your current school fax us a copy so that it arrives faster.
Got it. Will do that. Thank you so much!