Advice for suture applicants

reader345
Wed, 04 May 2011 12:38:34 +0000

Hey future potential wellesley women, I jsut wanted to give a bit of advice and reassurance for when you apply to wellesley. I apologize for any speelign mistakes in advance because I am typing this fast and i dont have much time to type this. You can PM me for more info if you want and ill frequently check this post.

I had a 3.56 when I applied to Wellelsey and I think it might be a 3.6 now, I am a NHS member, adn I got a 1790 on my SAT and I think I got a 23 on my ACT. The reason I think I got into Wellesley is because in the why wellesley essay they ask you to write I spoke form my heart, I wrote about why i love wellesley in a story format I didnt just list thing I wrote a story about my journey, path, whatever to deciding that wellesley was the college for me. I applied RD and I sent in my app aroudn december but i forgot to send in my scores because I was stressed and i applied to a bunch of different school and i didnt think i would get into wellesley so in march my counselor at my school was checking up on me and as soon as she ofund out i had forgot she made me contact the school and see if i could still finish my app…this was in early march…2 weeks later i got my acceptance folder with a lovely yellow magnet…wellesley yellow class of 2015!!!

I sent in 5 rec letters, and I chose them very well, I made sure that the people I chose to write my rec letters knew me in different ways so that wellesley could get a clear picture of who i was…1 was from my 11th grade english teacher whom I love, 1 from my middle school theater director whom i volunteer with to help with middle school shows, 1 from 10th grade history teacher who also was my academic advosor and the sponser of an ap tutoring club i started, he also help me and a group of 5 sophomres study outside of class for the ap world and euro exam, 1 from my 12 grade ap bio teacher, and 1 from afamily friend who has known me my whole life and who was my supervosr when i was a chess teacher at a community center during 9th and 10th grade

You CAN get into wellesley without stellar scores, when I visited the campus for spring open campus all they talked about was adveristy and diversity and how each one of us has a story and how we all deserved to be there they treasure their students…I have talked to other members of the class of 2015 and to current studenst and while there are many peope who were top of their class, near perfect sat scores there are also just as many popel who may seem like average if you look at their sat or act scores and thier gpa but really are hard workign peopel who are involve din their community and who have been and seen and experinced some amazing things I cannot tell you how excited i am for the fall my classmates are some of the coolest people I have ever met and I am proud to say that I have learned t realize that I am just as good as everyone else.

Wellesley wants hard workers and I know you might have heard this plenty of times before but grades arent everything…I didnt even have an interview i meant to but I was out of town…if your essays and your transcripts shows how hard you have worked(challeneging classes…however I know people who have only taken 1 or 2 ap classes and were accpeted) and you have done at least on thing in your school or community that you were passionate about write about it…do not list things i was involved in a bunch of things in high school but i focused on one thing, one experice and wrote about it your resume is the only listing of your involvment that you need.

Good luck!!! Hope to meet some of you a year from now :)