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Colleges and Universities A-Z Wellesley College
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<p>I am a senior at a Montgomery County, MD public high school. I am going to be visiting Wellesley this weekend, and I wondering what my chances are. </p>

<p>SAT: verbal - 630
math - 730
writing - 680</p>

<p>GPA 3.7 uw, 4.53 w</p>

<p>SAT IIs: 720 math II, 720 french w/o listening, and 540 biology (yikes! i know!)</p>

<p>I've taken five AP classes, and will have taken 7 by the end of this year. I'm also in Multivariable Calculus which is supposed to be a college-level course.</p>

<p>AP US gov - 4
Eng Lang - 4
World History - 4
French - 2 (AHH!)
AP Calc BC - 4</p>

<p>I have only taken honors and AP academic classes, I've always taken the highest level offered for my classes.</p>

<p>I've been volunteering at a nursing home for the last three years, in an outside orchestra for four years, in a service club at school (SHOP), and started by own club: Instrumental Music Club. I have 300+service hours, and I'm also in the Superintendent's Leadership Program, something through Montgomery County that's supposed to provide us with leadership opportunities. I'm also doing an internship at Suburban Hospital, 15 hrs per week. </p>

<p>I'm concerned b/c of the SAT II biology, and AP french that I bombed, and also b/c i'm stronger in math, and it seems that Wellesley accepts more humanities-oriented students. </p>

<p>I also am getting a C is AP English this year! I'm trying to deal with this, and something get it changed to a B, but if I wrote some kind of letter of explanation that this teacher grades really HARD and that a lot of people are getting Cs, and even Ds, would it kind of compensate for it?</p>

<p>Please help me out!! Wellesley seems like a great college, and I hope that I would make it!</p>

<p>Thanks so much guys!</p>

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<p>er...um, maybe, I wouldn't count on it, though. Are you <em>really, really</em> into one particular thing?</p>

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I'm concerned b/c of the SAT II biology, and AP french that I bombed, and also b/c i'm stronger in math, and it seems that Wellesley accepts more humanities-oriented students.

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<p>1) I have strong doubts that the admissions board puts much weight on intended majors. No one declares a major until sophomore year, and students still change their majors after that. The college can hardly admit students based on what they think they'd like to pursue, given that so many students change their minds!</p>

<p>2) There are more humanity majors than science majors, but I wouldn't pin this to the board of admissons. I entered pre-med/biochem and graduated in religion. They admit students, not majors :)</p>

<p>3) You cannot go wrong by applying. Will you get in? None of us know. Take your stats, take your ideas, take your interests, and apply. You're a real person--not just a bunch of numbers--and you should take every reasonable chance to apply to schools you like. The application is free, right? Go for it!</p>

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<p>i'm really into music, the violin, though i'm not really thinking of majoring in it. i want to continue playing and taking lessons, though, and definitely am going to audition for an orchestra at Wellesley. I have been in PVYO (local orchestra) for four years, have started my club, where myself and other musicians give lessons to freshmen or anybody who feels they need additional help (in band and orchestra). I also have been in the school pit orchestra for the last two years, I am going to be doing it this year, but I can't honestly say i've done it for three years since the musicals are in the spring. i am going to be sending wellesley a cd of me playing. i hope that might give me an edge. </p>

<p>so far, my profile is saying that i'm really into science, since i'm in my hs "science academy," where we've taken special courses to prep us in science research, or any science related field. I also am doing my internship at Suburban hospital, where I'm shadowing doctors and RN's, and hopefully (crossing my fingers) the senior VP who happens to live in my area, and whose son went to my HS. However, I'm actually leaning more towards business, maybe management in a hospital, for example. Through HS i've been thinking that i wanted to be a doctor, yada, yada, but actually i've realized that i can't picture myself in med school. I do enjoy the sciences, but i can't really say that i'm the mad scientist who goes crazy about doing research, or studying my butt off in med school. I'd love to do business, but i don't have any credentials from hs backing me up in this interest.</p>

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<p>Ok, so, basically, you don't know what you want to do--and that's totally ok. As ringer05 rightly said, they're looking for students, not majors. The point is that you're <em>interested</em>--looking around, seeing what your into. I think that that'll probably be appreciated, and if you can play up your passions then admissions probably be willing to overlook mediocre scores. You should, of course, give it a shot.</p>

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<p>Thanks so much for your help! I was also wondering if you had some ideas for essay topics. I was thinking of writing about my experiences at Asbury, and then stick in some things about how i love music and helping people, etc. However, i have heard that community service is the thing to get away from because so many people do write about community service. Would is be ok to use this topic, or should i completely avoid it?</p>