Wesleyan Class of 2015 ED Results

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Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:57:33 +0000

ACCEPTED ACCEPTED ACCEPTED

Objective:


SAT I (breakdown): 730 CR, 600 M, 760 W = 2090
ACT: N/A
SAT II: 790 US, 720 Chem, 660 lit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.89
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): unofficially top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (5) US (5) Chem (5) Eng Lang (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): Spanish, Calculus
Senior Year Course Load: Honors Physics, AP French, Precalc, AP Lit, AP Gov, Orchestra, Marketing, Indep Study in English
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Gettysburg Book Award for History (11th grade) (lol) 1st place speaker @ Varsity Debate States in CT, 2nd place Team at same tourney, various other debate awards


Subjective:


Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate team member, Environmental Club leader, Jewish youth movement leader, creator of Ultimate Frisbee league at school, various others
Volunteer/Community service: various things. volunteer at firehouse, gone to rallies, nothing outstanding
Summer Activities: progressive labor zionist jew camp. every year since 2002.
Essays: wrote about The Jersey Shore (tv show) and how it’s affected my life
Teacher Recommendation: Both were immaculate. One from English teacher I’m doing indep. study with, one from math teacher who liked me
Counselor Rec: No reason to believe that it wasn’t good.
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: Went well. Nothing too exciting to report.


Other


State (if domestic applicant): CT
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Progressive Labor Zionist, Debate?
Strengths: Good Grades, unique ECs, very well written teacher recs and essay.
Weaknesses: SAT I scores. The 600 on math is not a typo.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred: Because my strengths outweighed my weaknesses. And my essay
Where else were you accepted/deferred: Applied ED. But would have probably applied to Bowdoin, Midd, Kenyon, and others