<p>Hi everyone. My name's Dan and I'm currently a senior at a fairly competitive high school in New York. I visited Wesleyan fairly late in the college application process, but it was clear to me that it was my first choice. Although I applied elsewhere early action, I visited Wes a little too late to get my ED I app in. So, I have decided to apply there ED II, even if I do get into my early action schools. Anyway, below is a quick rundown of my statistics, and I was wondering if anyone out there could give me some chances/advice. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>GPA: 94.12 UW 96.6 W/School doesn't rank/Mostly Honors and AP Courses. I will have 8 APs taken by graduation. My only non-honors course was Physics in 11th grade and Spanish also in 11th grade. (will this kill me?)</p>
<p>SAT I: 800 CR 740 M 680 W (700 MC 8 Essay-Do not know how/why that happened, should I take again in January to improve this?) for a 1540/2220</p>
<p>SAT II: 800 USH 730 Lit 680 Math I 670 Bio E (Will Wes look at my 2 highest?)</p>
<p>APs: 5 United States History 5 English Language & Composition 5 Psychology</p>
<p>ECs: I have over 750 hours of community service working with handicapped children and adults. I wrote my main common app essay about this and I think its pretty good. Other than that I'm VP of NHS and Econ. Club, and I am Co-Founder/Co-Pres of a club in my school which raises money for our troops abroad. I also have a few varsity letters in Cross Country and Bowling.</p>
<p>Anyways could anyone give me some chances for admission into Wes and also give me some advice on those questions above? Thanks again!</p>
<p>I think you're definitely a strong candidate. It never hurts to improve standardized (ie SAT) scores, but your GPA, ECs, and AP scores definitely look good, so I think you'll probably get in as you are now. Taking two non-honors classes will not hurt your chances either! Wesleyan will probably receive all of your SATII scores (if you send them your latest scores), and so they'll be able to see them all, but I'm sure they'll look at your higher scores (and by the way, your lower scores are by no means bad!). Interview if you can. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks Ilovesoftball and LurkNess for your replies!...I'm just curious lurkness and anyone else who wants to chime in on this...Last year Wesleyan enrolled a class of 52% male and 48% female, so why would being a guy help me? Are there more female applicants overall (I couldn't find this statistic) than male applicants? Just wondering what your thoughts were on this. Thanks again!</p>
<p>when I visited, one of their pamphlets projected the incoming class of 2010 to be 51% men and 49% women. I have no idea how they came up with those numbers. It seems off, but that's what I remember reading.</p>
<p>when I visited, one of their pamphlets projected the incoming class of 2010 to be 51% men and 49% women. I have no idea how they came up with those numbers. It seems off, but that's what I remember reading.<</p>
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<p>The numbers aren't off. The fact is, that in order to bring in a class that is roughly gender balanced, 78% of all women appllicants were rejected last year compared to only 70% of all male applicants. Cruel as it may sound, this accounts for the discrepancy in chances if you happen to be male.</p>