is it worth applying? at all? in the slightest?

gengars
Sun, 01 May 2016 00:17:15 +0000

so i’m gonna be real honest with you all. i don’t have the best grades, and i’m only in the top half of a graduating class with only about 300 people. i’m a junior currently, with a 2.9 unweighted gpa and a 3.3 weighted. i’m expecting it to bump up since i’m getting some good grades in honors english and apush this year. like, i’m talking an a in apush, and i’m gonna kill that ap exam next week, just wait. it’s not because i don’t work hard however, and i have some interesting circumstances to mention if i should include it in the essay or do an interview with an alumni, but i’m not sure if they listen to the story or just look at the numbers. (i should also point out those are the only two classes i’m taking this semester, since i have block schedule and my other two classes are at the local community college where i’m dual enrolled. next year i have a big bunch of AP classes (ap calc ab & bc, ap euro, and ap lit) which will hopefully help as well. i’ve taken two spanish courses that i was pretty bad at, but yknow, my best is my best.)

i’ve been an active voice in the lgbt community, especially recently with the hb2 showdown that’s going on in my state, and volunteered at a number of lgbt resource centers, as well as a therapeutic horse riding center with disabled children. don’t do any sports, but i have a select number of clubs i’m pretty dedicated to. i switched schools in the middle of sophomore year though, so not as many as i’d like. the school i go to isn’t pretty great. it’s IB certified, but test scores are pretty low and i’m above average for the school.

i got a 30 ACT composite on my first try, and i’m hoping to take it again and get a better score. i have a 33 in the ELA part (a 35 in reading, 34 in english, and 30 in writing) which puts me in the 99th percentile for the nation, but only a 26 for STEM (24 in math, since trig absolutely killed me on the test, and a 27 in science) which puts me only in the 85th percentile. overall, i’m in the 95th for the US and the 97th for my state. pretty good, but not perfect.

my SAT scores are abysmal and i’m definitely taking it again. i have a 1710 overall, with a 640 in reading, 520 in math, and a 550 in writing. no idea what happened to me that day, but i was completely off my a-game.

anyways, wellesley is my dream school pretty much, but i would DEFINITELY consider it a stretch to even get waitlisted. basically, do you think i have any chance whatsoever of getting in, or should i not bother applying? i’m not banking on it in any capacity, and there are plenty of good schools in my state i have a fighting chance for, and a list of safe schools as well, but i’ve been really thinking about this lately. also don’t know if it matters, but i’d love to go for a BA in english literature, and maybe a minor somewhere in history.