What are decisions based on?

GnarWhail
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:56:58 +0000

if you get in, visit campus, and ask to talk to the person who read your application. they will prob be fine with telling you exactly why you were admitted and not some other kid with the same/similar stats or whatever.
wesleyan really wants to find those kids who will appreciate wes for what it is AND is not. that’s prob one reason why some kids who seem like locks and get in to plenty of the ‘peer’ schools get a pass from wesleyan.
wes can be quite unlike the ‘peer’ institutions in many ways–seemingly inexplicably until you grok–and if you dig that, you’re golden, but if you find it frustrating, well, welcome to hell.
if wesleyan wanted to, they could go test un-optional and get a whole class of kids who got near or perfect test scores and scare off all the 1400s and 31/32 range testers, but they don’t…
also, with the yuge boom in applications, interviews seem to have been thrown under the bus recently at wes, but that’s anecdotal. you know what does matter tho? recommendations. no supplemental essays, but those recommendations…