Chance Me For Wellesley ED! + any match suggestions?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics

  • US domestic
  • State/Location of residency: Texas
  • Type of high school: Private Prep School
  • Other special factors: Legacy at Dartmouth (mother donates and volunteers as alumni interviewer), grew up in Latin American and moved to the US at 11

Cost Constraints / Budget : N/A

Intended Major(s): Finance/Business, Statistics, or Social Studies; Pre-law track (hopefully going into Corpo law) or Pre-Business School

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 4.1 (All A’s and A+’s, but HS doesn’t report unweighted)
  • Weighted HS GPA: 4.5 (My HS is on an 11-point scale (12 = A+, 11 = A, etc.) and gives a 1.5 bump to AP/Honors classes)
  • Class Rank: school doesn’t rank
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 35 ss with science, 34 ss w/o science, 33 composite

List your HS coursework

  • English: AP Lit, 5 on AP Lang (self-taught)
  • Math: All honors, 5 on AP Stat, currently taking BC Calc
  • Science: All honors except physics, currently taking APES
  • History and social studies: 5 on WHAP, 5 on APUSH, Honors World History 1, Psychology, Civil Rights/Law, Philosophy/Ethics
  • Language other than English: AP Spanish Lit, All honors Spanish, AP Spanish Lang got a 5
  • Visual or performing arts: Creative Writing Freshman Year
  • Other academic courses: Did an independent study class on Incel Development

Awards

8+ Model UN awards on a national and international level, 3 Debate tournament awards, 3 Quizbowl Awards; Won my school’s Freshman English Award and Statistics Award;

Extracurriculars
On an American travel team for MUN; head delegate of my school’s MUN team; varsity member of WSD team; varsity QuizBowl member; captain of varsity esports (top 30 in state); social media executive of a literary magazine (raised over 300 books and $2500 for Sierra Leone education); Norton Fulbright Mock trial program (Jury Foreman); Teaching Assistant for STEM camp; Chairman my schools Culture Festival; Member of Student Diversity Leadership Board; founder and president of my school’s crochet club which donates to charity; some other stuff

Essays/LORs/Other

Strong personal essay on my experiences growing up in many different countries tied back to a family macaron recipe I’d have to adapt everytime I moved and how that mirrors my perseverance, fortitude, and adaptability.

LOR’s should be strong, all are written by former teachers, one of which coaches MUN, other of which was my Stat teacher and Independent study sponsor, final one is written by a teacher who is also the esports coach

Schools
Wellesley (ED 1)

Tufts (ED 2)

RD: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Claremont McKenna, Dartmouth, Indiana University- Bloomington, Smith, UC-Boulder, UMich-Ann Arbor, UT-Austin, University of Toronto (Rotman; Humanities; Social Sciences), Western University (Ivey; Humanities), + any ideas? :stuck_out_tongue:

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I think your list is a good one

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So talk to your school as it’s private.

Based on what you list, I think you get into Wellesley and/or Tufts.

Is the main desire Boston ? Women’s school ?

So the list is fine but if I had concern it’s the major. If you want to major in finance, then many of these don’t work. Finance and Econ are not substitutional.

That you have IU and CU, two large publics, makes me think - finance. But that’s not at your top choices.

As for law school, where you go likely will matter little other than cost. If you’re going to a $400k school, you may need $300k more for law school.

The reality is that the top law schools, like Harvard, Penn and UVA admit from well over 100 colleges for not huge first year classes. Penn notes its student body is represented by kids from over 200 colleges.

So Dartmouth or Delaware, Wellesley or Western Michigan likely won’t hugely impact law school admissions. Your grades, LSAT and today work experience likely will.

So the list is fine but I always take caution is disparity in school type and major. I would look at curriculums and think that through.

Do you want finance or a social science (econ). If you want finance, maybe Babson is a better choice because you can cross register at Wellesley.

Maybe Brandeis would be a better choice than Tufts as they have a business major.

Not saying the list isn’t right but giving you contradictions I see that I would investigate.

if you want big publics, it’s fine because CU Leeds, if that’s where you’d apply, is a sure bet and IU Kelley likely is.

But I think you need more investigation into curriculum and tailor to that. You want to love what you study.

Good luck

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I would add Scripps to your list. Since you’re interested in Business + liberal arts, I’d also consider Babson. It’s the rare business school that has lots of liberal arts mixed in. Plus you can still take courses at Wellesley if you don’t get in there. Both Babson and Wellesley are in a consortium with cross registration between the two and they’re only 2-3 miles apart, across town from each other with a shuttle to take you back & forth.

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I agree that your chances are reasonable. I think that Wellesley is always a reach, but perhaps a low reach in your case. I would not expect your chances to be as good at 50/50, but you are a strong applicant and I am hard pressed to think of a stronger applicant (other than someone with a Nobel Prize or a parent who is head of state of a medium sized country).

I notice two Canadian universities on your list. Do you have Canadian or dual (US/Canada) citizenship? If so, then a full four years in Canada might very well cost less than one single year at either Wellesley or Tufts. If cost matters at all this might be something to think about.

There is something to be said for graduating from law school or an MBA program with no debt at all.

Your list is long. I would make sure that you get applications in to at least two safeties and at least your three or four top choices before you get burned out from filling out so many applications.

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Unless your mom is a VERY generous donor alum, it’s unlikely legacy will matter much. But you are a strong candidate on your own.

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It’s a solid list. You should apply EA to the public schools on your list.