Chance?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wesleyan University
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<p>I really love Wesleyan..I would be overjoyed if I were accepted. I know that it's a reach, but is it worth applying? Thanks!</p>

<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Region: New England
Income: About $30k/year
School Type: Inner-city public school for 9th & 10th and Ivy-feeder, (very rigorous) private school for 11th & 12th</p>

<p>ACT: 33
APs: Language & Composition: 5
SAT II: U.S History: 740, Chemistry: 740, Bio E: 760 Literature: 780</p>

<p>Freshman: (Public school)
H English 9: B+
H Ancient History: B+
CP Physical Science: B
Algebra 1: A-
Spanish 2: A
Fashion & Design: B</p>

<p>Sophomore: (Public school)
H English 10: A-
H Civics/H Modern World History: B+/B
H Biology: B+
H Geometry: C
H Spanish 3: B
Speech/Contemporary Issues: A-/A</p>

<p>Junior: (Private school)
H English 11 (highest level available): A-
U.S History: A-
Chemistry: A-
Algebra 2: A-
Spanish 3: A
Theatre 1: A
Concert Choir: A</p>

<p>Senior: (Private school)
AP English: A
AP Biology: A
Bioethics/Nature Writing: A/A
H Pre-Calculus: A
H Spanish 4: A-
Advanced Theatre: A
Poetry & Play-writing: A</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Writing-
Award-winning Literary Magazine (10, 11, 12), Co-Editor-in-Chief (12)
Attended Middlebury's Writing Conference (11)
Attended the UVA Young Writers Workshop (11)
I have won numerous national/state/local poetry, nonfiction and fiction awards</p>

<p>Visual & Performing Arts-
Art Magazine (11, 12) Contributor to Music and Photography Sections (11), Editor/Founder of Fashion Section and Contributor to Music & Photography (12)
Theater (11, 12) Performed in a total of 7 school productions, 6 of which I played a lead.
I also have performed in a bunch of student-directed films and summer theater productions.
Photography- I have won a few state & national awards. I experiment with vintage cameras, film, and digital cameras. In addition, I run an Etsy shop where I sell my work and donate 5% of proceeds to a charity of my customer's choice.
Member of my school's improv group (11, 12)
Ballet (9, 11, 12) in addition to many years of lessons when I was little</p>

<p>Music-
Guitar (10, 11, 12)
Performed at my school's biannual "coffeehouse" (12)
Ukulele (11, 12)
Piano (12)
Girls' A Capella group (12)</p>

<p>Community Service:
Friend to an autistic child almost every Sunday morning (10)
YSOP Overnight Work-camp (11)
Worked with poor, at-risk children on various Saturdays & during the summer (11, 12)</p>

<p>Work experience:
Unpaid internship at a television production company (9)
Unpaid internship with my city's waste/recycling department (10)
Waitress (11)</p>

<p>Other things about me:
I love collecting vintage and antiques.
I enjoy cooking and traveling.
I am half Middle-Eastern (my dad is foreign).
My parents are divorced (I have a stepmother & little half sister).
I have lived in 10 different houses/condos/apartments
I suffered from depression and deep procrastination during my freshman and sophomore years.
I have a tenant living in my house, because my mom needs the money.</p>

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<p>I definitely think you have a chance. If there were some way of contrasting your experience in an inner-city public school with the one that you’re attending now, perhaps in an essay, I’d try to work that in.</p>

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<p>hey!</p>

<p>I’m a current Wes student.</p>

<p>Also, I went to the UVA young writer’s workshop too! Was Eric Kocher a counselor when you went there? He’s the sexy ukulele playing man who was one of the poetry teachers.</p>

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<p>your ‘other things about me’ is very similar to me! my dad’s from lebanon and i also had some issues freshman year. everything looks great; i can’t see a reason why they wouldn’t take you. but then again, there are a lot of people like that so you’ve really got to find a way to make yourself stand out (as everyone says)!
حظ سعيد!</p>