Wesleyan Class of 2019 RD results thread

jrmarvin
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:25:17 +0000

[] SAT I (breakdown): 800 CR, 680 Math, 800 Writing
[] ACT: didn’t take
[] SAT II: 740 Literature, 740 US History
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): school doesn’t give out unweighted. 98.9 weighted out of 100
[] AP : World History (5), US History (5), English Language (5).
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP US Government, AP Psychology, AP Italian, AP English Literaure, School and Community Leadership, College Sociology (half year)
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NCTE Achievement Award, Poetry Out Loud regional champion, won a few Italian poetry contests, Honor Societies: National, English, Italian
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[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Literary Magazine (editor), Cross Country (captain), Winter Track (captain), Spring Track (captain), SADD club
[] Job/Work Experience: Office worker at town pool over the summer
[] Volunteer/Community service: lots of water stops every year at races (Breast Cancer 5k/half marathon, etc)
[] Summer Activities: week-long creative writing course at local private college, summer training for cross county
[] Essays: Not gonna lie, pretty damn good. I’m a good writer, it’s my main strong point. I wrote it the main essay about how I’ve always been a reader and a writer and that’s how I learned about the world and whatnot. it sounds better (though maybe still as “Girl In Your MFA” pretentious?) in person. And my supplement was very good and creative I think, I did the “interesting conversation” one about like rambling 2am conversations on my best friend’s bedroom floor
[] Teacher Recommendation: pretty good i think? I mean we’re not allowed to read them but like I’m pretty sure they were good. I have a really close relationship with one teacher, she’s my english teacher and was my creative writing teacher, and runs the literary magazine, and the other two really like me I think.
[] Counselor Rec:Again like I think it was pretty good? she really likes me
[] Interview: didn’t have one
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[] Applied for Financial Aid?: yep
[] Intended Major: english
[] State (if domestic applicant): New York
[] School Type: public
[] Ethnicity: white/sephardic jewish
[] Gender: female
[] Income Bracket: fairly upper middle class, but because of the cost of living where we are and my parent’s debts/mortgage, it looks like I can pay much more than I can
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): not a racial minority or anything but a religious minority I guess since I’m Wiccan
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[] Strengths: Really strong writer, very high grades in all humanities classes, high SAT, good recs good essays
[] Weaknesses: lower math SAT, lower math and science grades (mid-low 90s as opposed to high 90s for humanities), not much community service.
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: beats me? I wrote them this looooong letter the day before admissions about how much I love the school and don’t want to go anywhere else. but I honestly think it was my supplement. plus I had such a good feeling when i visited that I feel like the universe like cosmically wanted me to go to wes.
[li] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected/waiting on: Rejected: Vassar, Swat, Midd, Brown, Yale (deferred first) Waitlisted: Kenyon, Tufts Accepted: Wes (!), Bard, Dickinson, Geneseo Waiting: Amherst, Reed [/li][/ul]General Comments: It’s sort of between Wes and Bard but like Wes is my top school and I love it. But I don’t have Wes’s financial aid yet. i haven’t visited Bard yet but they gave me a good scholarship. But like I’d rather go to Wes than Bard as it stands right now