<p>I can't believe I'm actually doing this, but I just want to know other people's opinions.</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian
School: Large public school (1,400 students) in Massachusetts</p>
<p>Rank: 8/329
GPA: 4.1 weighted GPA
Rigor: I took every AP course offered except AP Stats. (APUSH, AP English Lit, AP English Lang., AP American Gov., and AP Calc.) plus two other AP courses online. (AP Spanish Lang. and AP French Lang.)</p>
<p>SAT: CR-710, W-690, M-660 (I know these aren't that great, but my scores are in the top 1% of my school. Hopefully that will be a factor)
SAT II:
-Spanish with Listening- 780
-French- 690</p>
<p>ECs:
-Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy- four week immersion program sponsored by Middlebury College. I attended in 2009 for French and 2010 for Spanish
-Student Council (9-12)
-NHS (11-12)- Vice President (12)
-Massachusetts Boys' State- leadership program. June 2010
-Varsity swim team (9-12)
-Rec. swim team (9-12)
-Local orchestra (9-12)
-WPI Math Meet team member (12)
-Student tutor (10-12)
-Subway Restaurant employee (10-12)
-Church Youth Group member (9-12)</p>
<p>Awards:
-Foreign Language Award for French and Spanish (9-12)
-SWE Award for Excellence in Math and Science
-AIC book award</p>
<p>Recs:
-Counselor's rec. has a lot of praise and lists my accomplishments, but I don't think it's anything extraordinary.
-Teacher rec. from my Spanish teacher and NHS adviser. I've never read other people's recs. to gauge the quality of recs., but I think it's safe to say that this rec. is amazing.
-Teacher rec. from my English teacher. Also amazing and very specific. She wrote about some specific assignments of mine that she especially liked.</p>
<p>Essay:
Common App- I wrote about my being Asian does not mean I excel in Math and Science. This essay also explains why some of my Math grades aren't spectacular, but how I still take the challenge. My English teacher with a Doctorate in English said it was amazing.</p>
<p>Be brutally honest.</p>
<p>bump. I would like some more feedback.</p>
<p>I would honestly be pretty surprised if you DIDN’T get accepted. Your test scores are not amazing, but I think they should be high enough for Wesleyan. In addition, you have very good ECs and leadership and you’re applying EDII, which should definitely help. Good Luck!</p>
<p>what were your AP scores/how do they compare to the AP scores of kids from your school?</p>
<p>I think you have a decent shot. It will all depend on how you stack up against whomever else is applying. And of course, your AP scores are not a factor in admission. Having taken AP courses is a factor. If you look on Wesleyan’s Common Data Set pages, you will see that the rigor of the academic program is the most important factor among all listed there. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>The point I was insinuating was that if he had taken seven APs and done poorly on them, then certainly some eyebrows would be raised by admissions officers. Additionally, high AP class grades and low test scores could mean grade deflation, while the inverse could prove that there is deflation. AP scores won’t necessarily make or break you, but I still think they’re important.</p>
<p>I see what you are saying, and you may be right. I think particularly if the OP’s school had a reputation of low AP scores coupled with high AP course grades, that would be an issue. However, I have asked several admissions officers as well as my son’s college counselor and all of them said that the colleges they know do not look at AP scores at all. They are concerned with the rigor of the curriculum the student has taken as an indication of their academic motivation and level of intellectual curiosity. In any case my sample size was small and the admissions officer I spoke with was from Stanford, so perhaps that is not the case universally.</p>
<p>hey danielng! i went to MMLA too! I went in 2008 for french. and my two brothers did MMLA for spanish during summer 2010.</p>
<p>my brothers are matt and james. they’re twins. i think james’ spanish name was santiago? i can’t remember what matt’s was. they miss mmla so much and talk about their teacher borja all the time.</p>
<p>from the french camp…do you know kira? she did mmla french in 2009. also galya? she did the french program with me in 2008 and then i think did mmla french in 2009 too.</p>
<p>Hey 
I do know Matt and James. They were both in my group. I miss MMLA a lot, and I miss Borja too. I also know Galya, but I don’t think I know Kira. What a small world.</p>