***Official Wellesley College 2018 EE Predictions***

LittleRain1
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:08:40 +0000

Posting after decisions were released… I was accepted yesterday!! :)

Prediction: LIKELY

Objective

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[] SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (one sitting) (CR 680 W 760 M 760)
[]ACT (breakdown): None
[]SAT II (place score in parentheses): Biology M 750 French 720 Math II 720
[]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Accumulative ±4.4 (my school only has unweighted…)
[]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Rank top three of my class of 99
[]AP (place score in parentheses): N/A
[]IB (place score in parentheses): Full IB predicted score 45/45
[]Senior Year Course Load: Full IB Y2 (HL: English LangLit, Economics, Biology; SL: French B, Art, Math)
[li]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing crazy; Kunstenaar (Dutch for “artist”) Award [/li][/ul]

Subjective

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[]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Varsity Swimming (captain), Student Senate, Chamber Quartet, Acapella group (leader), Student Ambassador (leader), International Mixed and Women’s Honor Choirs
[]Job/Work Experience: N/A unfortunately it’s difficult to get a job living in The Netherlands if you don’t speak Dutch
[]Volunteer/Community Service: Worked as a student aide in the Kindergarten of my school (which is K-12), helping ESL students and students with learning disabilities
[]Summer Activities: Brown University Leadership Course, College tours, Planned and led the new student Orientation for every year of high school (25% of my school population is new every year)
[]Essays: CommonApp - I talked about how my exploration and creation of art has shaped me as a person; Wellesley: #16, I talked about traditions and what they mean to me as an individual
[]Teacher Recommendations: All of my teachers asked if they could write rec letters for me… I guess that’s a good sign(?)
[]Counselor Rec: Must have been good, though I don’t know for sure.
[]Additional Rec: N/A
[li]Interview: It was great! We connected immediately because she was also a Third Culture Kid and competed at sports tournaments similar to mine[/li][/ul]

Other

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[]State (if domestic applicant): Native from Texas
[]Country (if international applicant): Applied from an international school in The Netherlands
[]School Type: Private international
[]Ethnicity: Chinese-American
[]Income Bracket: 200,000
[]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nothing special… Expat kid?
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Reflection

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[]Strengths: IB predicted grade, strong essays
[]Weaknesses: SAT, no major awards
[]Why you think you received a likely/possible/unlikely prediction: I received a hand-written note praising my world-view and my passion for several things… grades… IB predicted work load
[]Where else you have applied and/or have been accepted/rejected: Accepted UT Austin School of Architecture. Deferred: Harvard. Still waiting on: Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, UCBerkeley, Stanford
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General comments/advice/hindsight: I got a reaaaaaallly good impression of the school when I visited, and it probably was the thing that drove me to apply (I hadn’t planned on applying before but now I’m glad I did!). The course I want to study (architecture) requires that I cross-register at MIT so that is crazy cool. Still waiting on the other schools before I make a decision though. Best of luck to all others!