<p>I find this out tomorrow almost definitely but I am still freaking out a tad. I have never liked these threads but (like most people) I am feeling nervous because I can’t shoot rainbows out of my face.</p>
<p>SATs: Writing 760, Math 640, Critical Reading 660.
Spanish: 580, Lit 580 (mono)
GPA around a 3.6/3.7 at a competitive New-England Prep school. There is no class rank.
Extra curricular:
Job working for the Inter-American development bank in Colombia for a summer (all in Spanish)
wrote a 70 page thesis on Columbian Economic policy afterwards.
Proctor of my dorm (Junior and Senior)
Eagle Scout (471 hours of CS)
Bassist (though I quit jazz band junior year out of hatred for the teacher)
Founder of the Jam-band club and downhill-skateboarding club at my school.
Modern dance (2 years)
Student-Faculty senator (writes school rules)
Member of the Honor Council (disciplinary board)
Avid fitness buff?
Pretty good interview
very opinionated essay on asserting my opinions (long story)
two very good reps: (from the dean of students/history professor and the head of the English department.)
I enjoy long walks on the beach and so-forth.
I submitted two extra little blurbs on my experiences with international travel and what it means to me/changed my life (getting robbed at gunpoint in Colombia and visiting Palistine).</p>
<p>As long as you spelled PalEstine correctly on your essay (just kidding – I’m sure you did), I think you have a good shot.
Your ECs are really interesting and impressive (70 page thesis! holy cow) and your essay looks unique.
Your numbers might hurt you but I really don’t know how much weight Wes really puts on them.
Good luck!</p>
<p>Your scores are a tad low, and your GPA might be too (depends on what GPAs normally are like at your school), but your ECs are awesome and your scores/GPA are certainly not out of range. I’d say Wes is a low reach for you, but the ECs mean your still have a fairly decent shot. Good luck!</p>
<p>PS. Did you mention that you had mono for the SAT IIs? Because those are your weakest point (to the point where they might, in my mind, call the strength of your GPA into question if I didn’t know you’d had mono).</p>
<p>my grades were somewhere between bargain basement and No Future - far worse than yours - but I too had interesting/uncommon EC’s. i had (significantly) higher test scores and a pretty good essay. who knows? you might get in, you might not. i got in here off the waitlist after having been admitted to a couple places you might think are ‘m0ar prestigious’ and having been denied entry to over 9000 colleges i wanted to go to. good luck though.</p>
<p>i’ve actually done very well at wesleyan. my GPA last year was 3.7 in a bunch of intermediate-level (non-FYI/gut) courses. if you’d have looked at my high school grades you’dve been like, ‘this kid is headed to Nowhere, fast’…but for some reason Wes took a chance on me, i dunno. not that this is the GREATEST SCHOOL EVER (it’s not) nor that it’s the #1 BEST FIT EVER (it’s not) nor that i’m even happy to be here most of the time (i am now, but definitely wasn’t last year), but i’m glad they accepted me and, overall, i’m glad i came. i’ve definitely worked my ass off, which is all it takes; brains, beyond a certain point (you have to have a certain amount) are irrelevant to whether or not one will succeed in college. </p>
<p>what occasioned this sermon? </p>
<p>nothing. only i feel like people in HS right now think they have everything planned and mapped the $$$$ out, they’re going to go to top 20 university and triple major in three eclectic-but-unrelated disciplines and play 7 club sports while writing for the newspaper and participating in something granola-y. and they’re gonna win and they’re gonna succeed and they’re gonna go to law school or medical school or dental school or School Fo’ Thugz and get out and make bundles of money on car insurance by switching to Geico. only i feel like all those plans are nonsense…i came out of HS with so many plans that i’ve thrown in the garbage. what’s real is real, you’ll find out what it is cum college or maybe a few years thereafter, but really the important thing is to just Do You and be yourself and not worry because wherever the hell you end up for school you’ll do well enough if you want to, you know? it’s all more or less the same, prestige is a canard - beyond the Ivies it all doesn’t make a bit of difference, we’re not gonna get any bonus points for having a wesleyan degree compared to someone who went to williams Berkeley JHU georgetown emory michigan wherever else. it all boils down to your PERSONAL QUALITIES, and those you can change if you want to, or maybe you can’t at all, so why stress over which name is on the degree because it don’t signify? if you really are highly motivated and have a winning attitude towards life you’ll succeed in it (it’s like sports), if not you’ll end up like me but you know what? i’m happy as a *<strong><em>ing clam. it’s a good life don’t lose it don’t waste it doing *</em></strong> you don’t wanna do, with everything that implies</p>
<p>hooray for empty-but-consoling platitudes, your regularly scheduled programming will begin in just a few moments</p>
<p>When you get here, you realize how trivial selectivity is. No one cares here. People barely care in the real world. Your degree matters so little…</p>
<p>I remember me and all the other people from my HS who were applying to these kinds of schools were obsessive about it. It just seemed so important, the deciding factor of our lives. The college you go to sort of became a sign for how smart you are/successful you were going to be/what kind of person you were. And you get here, and you realize how absolutely ridiculous that is. </p>
<p>What you should look for is a great experience, and to learn a lot. If you are looking at colleges as your means to get a head, one choice is as good as another. </p>
<p>My grades were also complete *****…I had the other stuff but not the grades at ALL. </p>
<p>Also a lot of us are coming here I think because Finals Week is very very stressful. And are just getting off-topic like crazy. I’d give you a decent chance to get in…its all quite random. Your SAT 2s hurt you, to be honest. Also, your clubs are eclectic but are not…community changing. They are for fun, and I don’t know if they’ll value that (speaking purely on opinion; I might be totally wrong). Eagle Scout is very cool. SATs are decent but nothing special. If you still have the chance, I’d apply ED 2. I have no idea when deadlines are so that could have already passed. But that would be your best shot at getting in.</p>