Wellesley Class of 2017 EE decisions thread

emmymillions
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:21:24 +0000

Decision: Accepted (Likely)

Objective:
ACT: 34
SAT II: 750 (Lit) 650 (Math 2)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5~3.6
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (5), Spanish Lang. (4), World History (5), US History (4), Composition (5), Physics (3), US Government, Comparative Government, Environmental Science
Senior Year Course Load: 1st Semester (Note: All classes honors unless otherwise specified) Japanese III, APES, AP Gov (Dual Semester Course), Contemporary US History, Philosophy in Literature, Academic Decathlon 2nd Semester: Creative Writing, Japanese III, APES, AP Gov, Senior Experience (Novel Editing), Academic Decathlon
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Does 2nd Place Acadec nationals count?
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Academic Decathlon (11th - 12th grade), MUN (10th & 11th grade), Volleyball (4 years school, 6 years Club), Tung Soo Do [green belt]
Job/Work Experience: Babysitting
Volunteer/Community service: Daycare volunteer, various school things
Summer Activities: Volleyball camps/club/school, Community College Course (Cultural Anthro)
Essays: My teacher liked my Common App but I am a fairly good writer so I assume good?
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see
Counselor Rec: Didn’t see
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A (For posterity REMEMBER THE DEADLINE)
Other
State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
School Type: Public Magnet, Large (2000+)
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female duhzzuh. Wait I shouldn’t say that, since trans males and such.
Income Bracket: Middle middle class, but single parent income (Let’s say more than the 60,000 ivy free ride, but less than 100,000)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
Reflection
Strengths: National Award (Acadec. Go Join.), NaNoWriMo winner, essays (I assume), strong ACT scores (SAT was pretty bad)
Weaknesses: SAT, Grades (I have had a 3.5 since freshman year since I have gotten As in everything but Cs in math. Always. So it balances out)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Maybe because I had something different that they thought I could offer. Acadec isn’t super common, and NaNoWriMo isn’t well known in general either, not that it’s a legitimate activity (but if you do it put it down!). Also I have an athletics/academics balance.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted everywhere so far; Tulane (Paul Tulane Scholarship), University of Alabama, Clark University (Worcester), Marquette Waiting on: Yale, Vassar, Williams, Macalester aka all of my really hard schools

General Comments: Congrats to everyone who got in! And good luck to everyone who got a possibly! For those who didn’t get what they wanted, remember that college is what you make of it and this one school isn’t going to make or break you. Only you can do that. Also for those future people don’t freak out about the stats, in a good or bad way. Each person is just that: a person. Wellesley as well as most of the competitive schools spend a lot of time looking at the you who got put down on paper so make sure that your Common App reflects as much of you as possible, no matter how weird, silly, or trivial it may seem. It might just be what gets you in! I’m buying myself Crumbs cupcakes to celebrate, and those of you in NYC/Chicago/LA/Have a cupcake store near you should too! It helps mend broken hearts and celebrate full ones!