Chance for ED I plz

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wesleyan University
1

<p>So I'm applying ED I. chance/opinions?</p>

<p>White/Mid-eastern Jew male from CT, and go to a very good public school.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.89/4 UW (school does not weight), 3.9625 for 1st quarter senior year
Rank: top 10%, but school does not officially rank</p>

<p>Test Scores: SAT I 2090 (730 CR 760 W 600 M)
SAT IIs: 790 US, 720 chem, 660 Lit
APs: Taken US, Euro, Eng. Lang and Chem, 5 on all of them. Taking Government & Politics, French, and Eng Lit this year</p>

<p>Classes n Stuff: Will have taken 7 AP classes by the time I graduate, all other classes have been honors except math (I'm bad at numberz)</p>

<p>ECs: Debate team; (have won many trophies, including 1st place speaker/2nd place team @ varsity states tournament last year)
Ultimate Frisbee; made a club sophomore year and have played all years of highschool.
Environmental club; in charge of school composting efforts, do general green energy awareness things
GSA + French honor society; pretty self explanatory I think?
I write for the local newspaper in a weekly column I share with 4 other kids in my grade. (had to compete against a lot of people to get this)
School Orchestra: play viola, have been in it all 4 years of HS
also got a book award for excellence in US history </p>

<p>Finally, I belong to a progressive Jewish youth movement, and have been a part of it since 2002. I've gone to Israel with movement and done tons of cool things, including working at its summer camp and leading events and volunteering and so forth. I wrote my 150 blurb thing about this, and consider it to be kind of a hook.</p>

<p>My common app essay is, in my opinion, really really good (writing = my thing), and so are both my teacher recs (one is from an English teacher with whom I'm doing an independent study so I'm hoping this one is particularly stellar).</p>

<p>I'm hoping my chances are at least above mediocre, and I think my only real failing is the SAT score(s). I took them twice but my math score didn't change too much... I'm an inconsistent test taker and the SAT really isn't my thing. I'm hoping the AP scores make up for it? I feel like there aren't too many people with such a disproportionate GPA and SAT, so it's hard for me to discern where I stand. Feel free to ask questions!</p>

2

<p>S applied ED last year and got wait listed with 200 more SAT points. (eventually got in) I think it’s going to be challenging for you.</p>

3

<p>It is good to have a bunch of interests but one that kind of stands out as the most important to you. An example is being a president or leader or editor in chief. </p>

<p>Your SAT score is low.</p>

<p>Hard to say, Wesleyan looks at apps wholistically.</p>

4

<p>@soze: in a another thread you said your S had SAT scores 100 points above mine, not 200. Probably a typo, but your point still stands. thanks for the chance/what do you think got him waitlisted and not accepted/rejected (regardless of the fact that he got in off the waitlist) </p>

<p>@lobalaw: I agree. I make it pretty clear in my app that my youth organization is the activity that stands out. I feel like the 600 on the math part of the SAT is just a huge black mark on my application…drats.</p>

5

<p>Sorry, right it was a typo, but the thought process is still the same.
The problem for you, as I see it is that your SAT is below the average for the school. When that’s the case, you really need to give them a reason to take you, because by admitting you, your SATs will be bringing their average down, and no school likes that.</p>

<p>As for my S, I think the problem for him is that he was from private school in CT and as good a school as it was, they get loads of apps from private school kids in CT.</p>

<p>Good luck to you in any case.</p>