<p>Wesleyan takes its time publishing the final stats for the entering class (as opposed to the stats for all the people offered admission), but, when it does it’s usually sweet. Some highlights:</p>
<p>1) lowest % ever from the northeast (New England+Mid-Atlantic)- 53%
2) highest % of ED applicants - 48%
3) highest % Asian, Asian-American enrollees - 15%
4) Thirty-five percent of the class reported as people of color, including, 9% black/African-American; 9% latino/Hispanic.
5) More people reported as first-gen college goers (16%) than legacies (6%) by nearly 3 to 1.</p>
<p>And this from Senior Dean of Admissions, Greg Pyke, on the subject of financial aid and ED:
<p>Wesleyan takes its time publishing the final stats for the entering class (as opposed to the stats for all the people offered admission), but, when it does it’s usually sweet. Some highlights:</p>
<p>1) lowest % ever from the northeast (New England+Mid-Atlantic)- 54%
2) highest % of ED applicants - 48%
3) highest % Asian, Asian-American enrollees - 15%
4) Thirty-four percent of the class reported as people of color, including, 9% black/African-American; 9% latino/Hispanic.
5) More people reported as first-gen college goers (14%) than legacies (6%) by more than 2 to 1.</p>
<p>And this from Senior Dean of Admissions, Greg Pyke, on the subject of financial aid and ED:</p>
<p>It’s interesting that, despite the dramatic increase in applications over the past few years, the test scores of the incoming classes have remained the same. Does the increase in applications reflect that Wes is becoming a more popular safe school for Ivy types than it was in the past?</p>
<p>It may; there’s certainly nothing wrong with being mentioned in the same breath with Columbia, Brown and Cornell. It may also reflect a certain trade-off between increasing geographic diversity, and gaining higher test scores. A lot of students west of the Mississippi (and quite a few east of it) take the ACT in lieu of the SAT, so you’re not necessarily going to see an uptick in the latter; it also wouldn’t surprise me if a kid from Kansas or South Dakota were able to get into Wesleyan with slightly lower scores than someone from New York City or Boston.</p>
<p>Also, Wesleyan probably offers, on average, slightly more loans and less grants than Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore, so it’s going to lose the top cross-admits on money alone. I’m sure in some cases Wes offers better money, but on average, I bet the top kids are choosing Wesleyan’s Little Three rivals because a few thousand dollars is making a difference.</p>
<p>Edit: With an admit rate of 20% (Williams 18% for comparison), Wesleyan can hardly be quantified as a “safe” school for anyone…</p>