Decisions, Decisions — Spring Transfer Applicants

Admit It!  You’ve been on the edge of your seat waiting for us to release decisions for spring transfer applicants.  Well the wait is almost over.  We will release those decisions via email today, Monday, December 5.  We cannot provide a specific time.  It takes several hours to upload each applicant’s individual email, send it and have it received by your email server.  However, if all things go as planned your decision should be in your in-box later today.  Decisions are sent to the email address you provided in your Common Application.  How the sender information appears differs from email client to email client but “College of William & Mary” will appear somewhere in the sender info.  The subject line will be either “Good News” (and yes that means what you think it means) or “William & Mary Admission Decision.”  Please check all spam and junk filters.  Should you not receive your decision email you can contact our office at 757-221-4223.  We will resend all non-received decision emails using a different method each day after 5:00pm.  We will also mail a hard copy of your decision to ensure you receive it.

Admitted Transfers: Congratulations and welcome to the Classes of 2013, 2014 and 2015!  We’re thrilled to welcome you to the Tribe and look forward to your presence on campus in the spring.  Take a five-minute break from studying for finals to pat yourself on the back, do a little happy dance or simply breathe a sigh of relief.  You’re in!  There is not much time between now and your arrival on campus in January so please follow all instructions provided on the website linked in your decision email and in the admission packet you will receive in the mail in the coming days (the admit pack is sent to a mailing address if you provided one, if not it will be sent to your permanent home address).  Don’t forget to apply for on-campus housing if you desire it, to send in your enrollment deposit, to provide the necessary transfer credit evaluation materials, and oh yeah, to get excited about becoming part of the Tribe!

Those Not Admitted: Unfortunately there is no waitlist process for those applying for spring transfer (with the very small exception of those whose final transcripts will determine if they met the guaranteed admission agreements under which they were applying).  There simply isn’t time to hear from those admitted and then make decisions on other applicants in the two weeks between now and the holiday break.  So during the spring process, applicants are either admitted or denied.  We know that a denial is not what you were hoping for, but our transfer application process is selective.  In recent years we’ve seen fairly substantial increases in the number of transfer applicants and we generally admit between 40 and 45% of those who apply.  This means some strong students are not admitted.  We consider a wide variety of factors including course selection, credit load, grades, extracurricular involvements, life experience, perspective and so on.  If W&M remains a top choice for you, we encourage you not to give up.  We have admitted students who were previously denied.  Because every transfer story is different we will be happy to work with any student to determine if and how they might become competitive for admission in the future.

Thank you for the time and effort each of you put into your applications.  We enjoyed learning about each of you and wish you all the best as your college journey continues, whether that journey is at W&M or elsewhere.

Wendy Livingston ’03, M.Ed. ’09
Senior Assistant Dean of Admission

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