<p>He just sent in his application for Wesleyan after being deferred from Brown ED. </p>
<p>SAT: 2230 SAT 2: 750 Math 2. 760 English Lit</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9+ UW/4.5 W</p>
<p>EC: Drama (a couple of lead roles) and Music (trombone, trumpet, and voice)</p>
<p>National Merit Commended</p>
<p>That's it. His common app essay was really good. No awards or sports. </p>
<p>Wesleyan sounds like a really good fit for him, but it seems like all he has going are his scores and GPA.</p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>ED II or RD?</p>
<p>I got deferred from brown too! Good luck ~</p>
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Were he to apply to Vassar, he would have the fact that males have a much higher acceptance rate going for him as well. Just a thought. :)</p>
<p>He looked at Vassar, but some nit-picky thing made him not want to apply. Cannot recall exactly at this point. The language requirement, maybe? He’s applying RD to Wesleyan. Still hoping for Brown, but we’ve tried to remind him that he’s white, male, and didn’t cure cancer last summer.</p>
D strongly considered Vassar, loved the campus, but put off by Poughkeepsie. Visit to Wesleyan was a real hit, and NESCAC sports were a draw too.
Youngest D, HS sophomore, is being recruited by several schools for soccer, and Vassar is one of them. We are visiting New England over MLK weekend for an ID tournament in Danbury Conn, and we’ll likely make a drive there. Would love for her to attend at Wes with her sister, but she’s got to do her own thing.
Well, that at least puts in in the same boat as 99% of Wesleyan applicants.
On the raw numbers he’s fine, but Wes really sweats the “soft” aspects of the application and unless you’re missing something, his EC’s seem pretty thin at best.
For point-of-reference my S applied to Wes ED five years ago, was waitlisted and then accepted, so let’s assume that he “barely” got in.
He had a 2200 and something like a 3.6 UW from a very, very rigorous private school, but he had a boatload of quality ECs (captain of varsity sports team, a career as a professional musician, etc.).
I think it’s going to be tough for your son, but not impossible. An ED 2 application to Wesleyan might have helped.
Thanks, @Soze. We know it will be competitive, but not impossible. His ECs may seem “thin,” but I hope the ad comm will see the depth of his involvement in theatre and music. In some schools, depth matters as much as breadth, but if Wesleyan is one of the “we love well-rounded kids” schools, then my son is toast, because he’s definitely not well-rounded!
The fact that his EC’s are limited to theater and music presents an even bigger challenge at Wesleyan because they are literately inundated with applications from high-performing theater and music kids.
Best of luck to you and I hope he makes it. My son loved his four years at Wes.