Class of 2014 Admissions Highlights

johnwesley
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:57:45 +0000

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.