<p>I couldn't find one here...am I just not looking hard enough?</p>
<p>I was just trying to figure out how competitive the applicant pool to Wellesley is...</p>
<p>Well, I know for the most part that rankings are not the best indicators of a school's awesomeness quotient, but, for your question, this might be relevant: Wellesley is ranked #4 or something like that in the Liberal Arts Colleges category from U.S. News and World Report. It wouldn't get ranked like that if no one recognized how great the experience of Wellesley is. </p>
<p>I think the acceptance rate is somewhere in the 20-25% ish range, but please correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't seen the numbers in a while.</p>
<p>well yeah, clearly Wellesley is an awesome school....I was just trying to figure out what my chances might be of getting in...like completely impossibly or perhaps slightly feasible.</p>
<p>thanks for responding though=)</p>
<p>Hm, I think it was higher than 20-25%... I thought it was in the 30s or even low 40s.</p>
<p>yes yes, wellesley is an excellent school. an applicant pool to any such school is going to be tough. but for a school so highly ranked, it does have an unusually high acceptance rate. and hannahmontana, unless you share more about yourself, we're going to have a hard time telling you what your chances are. is your decision plan ED, EE, or RD?</p>
<p>lol k thanks, might as well turn this into a chances thread for myself then=)</p>
<p>I have a 4.0, 2330 SAT, and mediocre EC's (my two greatest passions are volunteering at the hospital where I have 250+ hours and being co-editor in chief of my school paper to which I devote a lot of time. I also love biology and the environment, I've been working on my city teen council to reduce solid waste production in schools).</p>
<p>not sure how the essays, recs will be.</p>
<p>I'm doing EE (the early notification if I submit by Jan 1st, right?)</p>
<p>How do my chances look?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure Wellesley's acceptance rate was like 36% last year, but it's also been said that Wellesley applicants are self-selecting</p>
<p>I stand corrected on the applicant acceptance rate. :) </p>
<p>hannahmontana, it looks like you have a very good chance...it's not quantity of ECs, it's quality. So no worries! Your GPA and your SATs are great, too. </p>
<p>Of course, I'm also a prospective student, so you might want a second (more knowledgeable) opinion.</p>
<p>Who's planning on applying ED?</p>
<p>your stats are pretty strong. :) and i agree with lamariposa, it's the quality of the ECs, not quantity, and it sounds like you're actually invested in them unless people who have laundry lists.</p>
<p>i'd say put a lot of work into your essays, help the adcoms know you beyond the numbers.</p>
<p>and i'm applying ED. :)
or, at least, planning to.</p>
<p>thanks everyone and good luck!=)</p>
<p>@discoball, thanks for the statistics.</p>
<p>I think a 36% acceptance rate for an all women's college is quite selective then...I mean if you really think about it, Wellesley will only receive at most, half the number of applications as other presitigious schools get (well obviously, since guys can't apply, lol)...and then a lot of girls just won't apply since the idea of attending an all-female college just might not appeal to them....based on that, one might expect there to be a fairly high acceptance rate for those who do apply, but really only a little over 1/3 of the applicants get in according to the percentage you gave us.</p>
<p>haha i wonder if any guys have ever tried sending in an app and if that meant automatic rejection, lol=)</p>
<p>I had a kid at my school who went on the Wellesley website and thought it was pretty much the perfect school for him, until he finally realized that there were no men's dorms. Quite the light bulb moment. :)</p>
<p>actually the acceptance rate was around 15% percent. This is the percent of student who got in through early decision and regular decison combined. Because students who apply to wellesley are very selective and because the class of 2012 was so large and applicants applied to 20 schools, Wellesley accepted A LOT of people from the wait list which therefore increased the percent of accepted students to about 32%!</p>
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<p>Firstyearfornow: Do you mean that Wellesley gets half of their incoming class from the wait list?</p>
<p>ED admitted students make up about 20% of the first-year class -- about 120 students in a class of 585. As others have said, Wellesley's ED pool is quite self-selecting and smaller (around 225-250) than other coed colleges (and way smaller than Ivies or other universities).</p>
<p>the 225 -250 ED applicant pool is an accurate figure (based on my experience reading apps for the BOA)...</p>
<p>？IloveOSU87 which year? i know the pool of 2012 is 306(ed application, form college board website)</p>
<p>so how many people are eding wellesley?
more or less than 306
any ao or students work in admission office can tell?????
thank you very much</p>
<p>actually on the collegeboard website it says 206, not 306.
i'm curious as well to know how many people applied ED this year..
the numbers seem to have increased for most top-tier colleges. :eek:</p>
<p>you are right 136/206</p>
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<p>.< i can't believe only 2 hundred people applying there early so this year might be over 300?? will the ed admission rate still be 66%?? == anybody could tell?</p>
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