Chances of gettting into Wellesley??? and UVA

College Search & Selection
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Here is my like “resume” for college:
Weighted GPA: 4.5 (my transcript doesn’t show unweighted gpa)
SAT Score(superscored): 1390/1600
SAT CHEM: 800
SAT U.S. HIST: 770
I’ve maintained all A’s in all my classes except for a B+ in English 10 honors.
My county doesn’t do rankings so I do not know my standing.
These are all the classes I’ve taken so far and plan to take in my senior year:
9th: 10th: 11th: 12th:( 2016-2017 so what I’ll be taking)
English 9 honors English 10 honors AP Lang English 12 honors
World History honors AP World History AP U.S. History AP U.S. gov w/ AP comparative gov
Biology honors Chemistry Honors AP Chemistry AP Physics 1
Geometry honors Algebra 2 honors Precalc w/ trig honors AP Calculus BC
PE PE AP European History AP Statistics
International gourmet AP Human Geography Computer Science AP Computer Science
Spanish 2 Spanish 3 Spanish 4 AP Biology

I don’t think colleges ask for AP Scores but if they do here it is:
AP World History:5 AP human geo:5 AP Lang:4 AP U.S. Hist: 5 AP Chem:4 AP Euro hist:5

This past summer, I did an internship in an in-state college. Only 10 people from the whole state got selected and I got to be one of them. I interned with an organic chem teacher and helped an undergrad with his research project for four weeks.

Extracurricular stuff:
Key club(community sevice)( been in it since sophomore year and am the social media person for senior year)
Interact club(community-service,rotary)(member since junior year)(even though I’m not a leader, I am very close with our sponsor since I volunteered with her in our town’s activities)
Chemistry Honor society( was the president my junior year and I plan to be in it my senior year)
National Honor Society( I’m planning on running for pres my senior year, hopefully I get it)
Math Honor Society( member since junior year)
Medical Pioneers( secretary)
I volunteer with our local town’s television
I also volunteer with a local leos club (community service)
I volunteered at a medical health fair in the Appalachians

if it helps, I have lived outside the country for like 7 years and am Asian. I plan to maybe write about my experience outside the states.

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sorry the list of classes got messed up.
here it is:
9th:
English 9 honors
world history honors
biology honors
geometry honors
pe
international gourmet
Spanish 2
10th:
ap world history
English 10 honors
ap human geo
algebra 2 honors
Spanish 3
pe
chemistry honors
11th:
ap lang
ap u.s. history
ap chemistry
ap European history
spainsh 4
precalc w/ trig honors
computer science
12th grade:
English 12 honors
ap u.s gov w/ ap comparative gov
ap physics 1
ap biology
ap stat
ap calc bc
ap comp sci

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Visit and see how you like the vibe. If it’s for you, it’ll really be for you. But – while the students are really bright and high-achieving – that’s really not all there is to them. When I read your stats, I see standard excellent student. But Wellesley women do not seem to be – not now, not in the past – standard excellent students.

I nearly went there; my friends who did go there all have decidedly nonstandard lives. They aren’t the crushers you expect from, say, Yale. For sure not all of them are glass-ceiling smashers. They aren’t even necessarily all that satisfied with how things have gone: they have ambitions that have been to a considerable degree thwarted by the fact that the world is not Wellesley, particularly when it comes to family and children. But they are extremely bright and rather intellectual, they make things happen, they do things their own way, and their loyalties run very deep.

I’d say the stats are really just the prereq – you know, are you bright enough and hardworking enough to do well there. But the real question beyond that is whether you’re that kind of gal. Go and talk to the people there, or meet with alumnae.

You should also be aware that it’s a significant schlep from Wellesley to Boston. The campus really is a bit cloistered, and the village around is expensive-twee – it’s not like being in Cambridge.