Class of 2014 Admissions Highlights

johnwesley
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:08:01 +0000

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:

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.

And this from Senior Dean of Admissions, Greg Pyke, on the subject of financial aid and ED:

“I know that the economy and the uncertainty that people feel about their future keeps a lot of people from making Early Decision commitments to college anywhere, but Wesleyan has done better than a lot of the ED schools at continuing to attract a good pool of socioeconomic diversity within the Early Decision pool as well,” Pyke said.



[Profiles of Wesleyan’s Class of 2014 ? The Wesleyan Argus](http://wesleyanargus.com/2010/09/04/profiles-of-wesleyans-class-of-2014/)