OFFICIAL WELLESLEY COLLEGE EE RESULTS THREAD C/O 2019!

I’m setting up this results thread, so feel free to post as you like! To all "likely"s, congratulations!!! To all "possible"s and "unlikely"s, don’t lose hope, tons of people still get in every year!

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size=4][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted **[/color][/size]
[ size=4][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Deferred **[/color][/size]
[ size=4][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected **[/color][/size]

[ b]Objective:[ /b]
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):
ACT (breakdown):
ACT superscore (breakdown):
SAT II (subject, score):
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Weighted GPA:
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parentheses):
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load:
Number of other EA applicants in your school:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):

[ b]Subjective:[ /b]
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community Service:
Summer Experience:

[ b]Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ /b]
Essays:
Teacher Recommendation #1:
Teacher Recommendation #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Info/Rec:
Interview:
Art Supplement:

[ b]Other[ /b]
U.S. State/Territory or Country:
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket Range:
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):

[ b]Reflection[ /b]
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
What would you have done differently?:
Where else did you apply?

[ b]Other Factors: [ /b]

[ b]General Comments & Advice:[ /b]
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You might want to change the “essays” section :wink: Likely and I’ll post my results once I get on an actual computer

Ha! Thanks!

Welp, I screwed up my own format, but here’s the stats anyway!!

Decision: LIKELY!

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):2120 (M: 650 CR: 720 W: 750 essay:9)
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay):Only took once
ACT (breakdown):None
ACT superscore (breakdown):None
SAT II (subject, score):Literature:720 Ecological Biology:670
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Weighted GPA:4.21
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):10/434
AP (place score in parentheses):APUSH(4)
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load:AP English Lit, AP Gov, AP Biology, AP Chem, AP Calc AB, AP Psychology, French 3
Number of other EA applicants in your school:1
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):None
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):Academic Letter, Dean’s list

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Founder and President of high school’s UNICEF Club–TONS of work put into this, lots of leadership experience gained through this club;Ambassador for local underprivileged children’s organization–huge commitment–became close to the founder, she’s sending an additional letter of recommendation;Mentor to foster kids in an educational program at the children’s organization just mentioned
Volunteer swim coach to mentally disabled elementary students;NHS–tons of hours involved in this, on several committees;PKOM (mentor to incoming freshmen)–elected position;High School Student Committee (works with school board members and superintendent to discuss student issues);Founder of tutoring program for school district;volunteer at local library;Club Med;SADD–several committees
Job/Work Experience: Tutor
Volunteer/Community Service:Mentioned in extra-curriculars
Summer Experience:Other than some volunteering, not much really.

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: Common App: (8 or 9), worked super hard on this!! It’s really personal, so I think it spoke to the adcoms. My Wellesley essay was decent (7)
Teacher Recommendation #1:Absolutely amazing (10) I’ve known her for three years and she’s my advisor for one of my extracurriculars
Teacher Recommendation #2:I’ve known him for two years and he knows I’m a dedicated student (8)
Counselor Rec:We talked about my extracurriculars and coursework before she sent it in, so can’t be too terrible (7)
Additional Info/Rec:President of the non-profit I work with sent one in, and it was fantastic! (10)
Interview: None
Art Supplement: None

Other
U.S. State/Territory or Country: Ohio
School Type:Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female (duh, lol)
Income Bracket Range: 70,000-80,000
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): First Gen
[ b]Reflection[ /b]
Strengths: My essays and extracurriculars were definitely the strongest.
Weaknesses: Test scores! Pretty average/on the lower side for top schools
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: It had to be my essays and extracurriculars!!
What would you have done differently?: Nothing!
Where else did you apply? Brown, Columbia, Yale, UChicago (Deferred EA), Northwestern, University of Washington, University of VA (deferred EA), Honors Tutorial College @ Ohio University (accepted), Vassar, College of William and Mary

I’m in such a state of shock!!! I thought for sure I’d be given a possible at the most! After being deferred twice already, it’s always nice to see an admission letter that starts with “Congratulations”!!!

@mirandastern You’re from NM? Me, too!

I got a likely, by the way, and I’ll probably post my stats soon. Too excited right now!

Oops, sorry, I saw NM somewhere and thought you meant New Mexico…then kept reading and saw Ohio. I figured there wouldn’t be too many from New Mexico.

**Decision: Likely **

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): (750/710/710) Essay: 9
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Same as above. That was my second attempt and it was better in all categories
ACT (breakdown): n/a
ACT superscore (breakdown): n/a
SAT II (subject, score): 780 Biology E; 710 Math I (terrible)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School doesn’t do unweighted but i’m guessing 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.49
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parentheses): AP Biology (4); AP English + Composition (4); AP US History (4) I forgot to self report these, but honestly they weren’t good. I didn’t send the official report either.
IB (place score in parentheses): n/a
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Euro
AP Calc AB
AP Literature
Anatomy/Physiology Honors
Spanish V Honors
Portfolio Art Honors
Theology (my school is christian)
Number of other EA applicants in your school: 6 (I only have 59 students in my grade so 6 people is a lot)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): National Silver medal for Scholastic Art & Writing in Photography, 2 Gold Keys for scholastic art and writing
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar, High honor roll, Academic excellence awards; National Honor society

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): [I’m just going to put what I wrote in my commonapp and not categorize]
Research Assistant for Rheumatology and Immunology Unit at my state’s general hospital; New England Journal of Medicine - I.T department (I was with the group that controls the sales, design of website and puts articles up on the website); Class Vice President (9th grade xD lol); Student Council (12th grade); School Newspaper Co-Editor in Chief; Boston Field Hockey Elite Indoor team; Captain of Varsity Field Hockey; Chaplain of Senior class (I go to a Christian school so I give devotionals); Peer Issues Group Member; Keyholder and Leader of group (I go to a private school so it’s a faculty selected student group that helps with admissions. Basically like what colleges do now); Save a Dog community service

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: 10/10 I was so happy with my commonapp essay and my Wellesley supplement. I thought my Wellesley supplement was one of the best out of the other schools I applied to. I completely rewrote a new commonapp essay after I was rejected Early decision from another school and wish I sent this one to the early decision school.
Teacher Recommendation #1: 10/10 My english teacher. She really likes me and we have lunch together sometimes and just talk. When I applied to another college that didn’t need a full teacher recommendation, she asked if she could send her letter anyways because she wanted them to know more.
Teacher Recommendation #2: 9/10 My 11th grade math teacher wrote me so many recommendations for when I applied for research positions. But I didn’t have her this year so I don’t know how good her letter was. We got along really well, but I’m not as close with her as I am with my English teacher.
Counselor Rec: 8/10 I think she liked me but I didn’t meet with her that often so I don’t know how well she knows me
Additional Info/Rec: n/a
Interview: 10/10 I interviewed on campus with a current Junior. She was really nice and I think we hit it off well.
Art Supplement: Did not send (though i did send for other schools)

Other
U.S. State/Territory or Country: Massachusetts
School Type: Small Private Christian
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: Not sure, but my family is probably upper middle class?
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athlete, development): None. Although three weeks after I sent my application the Wellesley field hockey coach contacted me seeing if I wanted to play (but she never saw me play). She said she was going to call but never did (she also told me that I could call her if I wanted, but I didn’t). I honestly think it’s because my school record was terrible. So I don’t know if that counts?

Reflection
Strengths: Essays, interview, extracurriculars; grades
Weaknesses: SATs for sure
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I guess I was qualified enough even in standardized tests. What I said in my interview and what I wrote must have resonated with one of the admissions officers. I’m so happy.
What would you have done differently?: Studied more for just one subject test instead of trying to study for many all at once.
Where else did you apply?
Rejected: Pomona ED
Applied: Tufts, Wheaton, Brown, Harvard, UPenn, Amherst, Williams, JHU, Cornell, WUSTL, Northwestern (I honestly know I’m not going to get into the ivies or Amherst and Williams unless there’s a miracle)

General Comments & Advice: So thrilled!! Wellesley has always been a top choice for me and if I get rejected from all the other places I don’t care because I have Wellesley!!! I’m sorry to hear about those who may not have heard the news they wanted.

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Decision: Likely

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2130 (M: 720 CR:720 W:690 Essay: 8)
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Only took once
ACT (breakdown): none
ACT superscore (breakdown):
SAT II (subject, score): Math II: 800 Chem: 770
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
Weighted GPA: N/A
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): not sure, probably in the top 10% (??)
AP (place score in parentheses): Chem (5) Calc (5) English Language (4)
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Semester 1: AP Stats, AP Physics C, American Civil War, Ancient Greek college class Semester 2: AP Physics C, AP English Lit., Chamber Choir, Greek class cont.
Number of other EE applicants in your school: probably not many
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): none
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National Latin Exam perfect paper, AP scholar, honor roll all 4 years, NHS, National Merit Commended

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
-Intern at a zebrafish lab this summer, worked with a Smith professor looking at the effect of anesthesia on neurons
-Member of the Ukulele Club since 10th grade, VP last year and president this year.
-In Chamber Choir, a selective audition-only group, for 11th and 12th grade, which is a class but also performs outside of school. This has been a pretty important and time-consuming commitment, both in practicing/learning my part for class and in after school performances.
-Tons of theater stuff–small named roles in two school musicals, props manager for a student-run production, assistant stage manager for the premiere of a newly-written play in my town, stage manager for a senior production.
-Latin Tutor at my high school
-Spanish immersion program after freshman year that increased my proficiency
-Model UN for 2 years
Volunteer at Animal Shelter since 11th grade-I recently stopped because of time constraints but I cared for the cats every Sunday morning for 3 hours.
Job/Work Experience: none, besides babysitting

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: common app (9) I put a ton of work into this! I wrote about my love of the Classics (Latin and Greek), about 550 words. Supplement (7) wrote about 24-hour shakes and the invented language class.
Teacher Recommendation #1: From my Latin teacher, probably an 8 or 9
Teacher Recommendation #2: From my AP Chem teacher, probably an 8
Counselor Rec: 9-10, she knew me well and took the time to meet with me throughout the college process
Additional Info/Rec: 1 from my Greek teacher, probably a 10 because he is wonderful and Greek is my best class, 1 from my Chamber Choir teacher, probably a 9 because she loves everyone.
Interview: It went well! She said that she thought I’d be a good fit for Wellesley.
Art Supplement: N/A

Other:
U.S. State/Territory or Country:MA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: 100,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): nope

Reflection:
Strengths: My essays and teacher recs
Weaknesses: SAT I scores were maybe a bit low, but I think generally on-target for Wellesley
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I’m just really happy I got likely!! I’m not sure if I’ll end up going to Wellesley, but it’s an awesome school with awesome people!
What would you have done differently?: nothing!
Where else did you apply? Carleton (my top choice right now), Tufts, Pomona (ED II, rejected), Kenyon, Conn College, Denison, St. Olaf (accepted)

General Comments & Advice:
I’m so excited!! I wish everyone the best! Likely, possible, or unlikely, you will get in somewhere, and you’ll probably be happy! pce love and woodstock nation

LIKELY

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): N/A
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): N/A
ACT (breakdown): M: 30, R: 35, W: 34, S: 32, E:10 Comp: 33
ACT superscore (breakdown): Same
SAT II (subject, score): N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
Weighted GPA: 4.1
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 12%
AP (place score in parentheses): USH (5), Econ (4), Gov (5), Lang (pending), AB Calc (pending)
IB (place score in parentheses): SL Math (6), HL Eng (pending), HL Hist (pending), SL ESS (pending)
Senior Year Course Load: AP AB Calc, IB ESS, IB World Topics, IB English 4, DC Business Prep
Number of other EA applicants in your school: 0
Awards: Featured in 3 film festivals, normal school awards, panelist at the Texas Democratic Convention '14, Superintendent Scholar, NAACP award

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Young Dems National Committeewoman, Youth and Government chapter president, JSA Governor’s Cabinet, International Youth Council Education dept. head, NHS, other normal school stuff
Job/Work Experience: US House intern, Texas House intern, campaign manager for local House campaign, administrative asst. at a doctors’ office, field director for a PAC
Volunteer/Community Service: the normal stuff (total 400 hours)
Summer Experience: JSA summer school

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: I loved my supplement, but I hate my CA essay, 8
Teacher Recommendations: Both fantastic, 9
Counselor Rec: Basic, but not bad, 7
Additional Info/Rec: State Rep. for whom I interned wrote a great one, 10
Interview: My interviewer has been following me on Twitter for 2 years because of my involvement in Texas politics, so it was really fun and interesting, haha, 9

Other
U.S. State/Territory or Country: Texas
School Type: Large, public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female (duh)
Income Bracket Range: Divorced parents, so combined $200,000, custodial $70,000
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): First gen

Reflection
Strengths: Letters, test scores, ec’s
Weaknesses: GPA, rank
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Holistic app, lots of interest
What would you have done differently?: My CA essay
Where else did you apply? American, Boston College, Brown, Kenyon, Princeton, Tufts, UT Austin, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan, Rhodes

General Comments & Advice: Good luck everyone! Just a little over a month for RD notifications :slight_smile:

Decision: Likely
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): N/A
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 31 composite, 10 Writing
ACT superscore (breakdown): uhh
SAT II (subject, score): 750 Lit, 600ish for US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.63
Weighted GPA: 3.84
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parentheses): Lit (5,) Lang (5), APUSH (5), Euro (5), Chinese (5), Micro (3), Calc AB (3)
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP Stats, AP US Gov, AP Spanish
Number of other EA applicants in your school: none
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): nope
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, letters for orchestra, academic excellence

[ b]Subjective:[ /b]
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
NHS President
Cultural Council President
Volunteer club leadership person for 3 years
Viola ensemble co-founder/president
Currently helping to create a language learning app

Job/Work Experience:
Tutor at Kumon
Chinese private tutor
Random gigs with my quartet over the years
Volunteer/Community Service: Co-received a $500 Disney Friends For Change grant to help fund a week long Global Youth Service Day event at my school that I helped to co-organize/coordinate

Summer Experience:
6 week full scholarship studying Russian in Russia (2014)

[ b]Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ /b]
Essays: Common App essay- I’m actually not sure about this one. I talked to several people and they either really liked it or didn’t think it was anything special. I just talked about my family and home. I would give myself a 5/10

Wellesley supplement though–I had several people look at it (not recommended) and I did over 2 weeks of revising (basically my winter break). I would give it an 8/10 because of how hard and long I worked on it. I wrote about Angela Carpenter’s invented language class (tied directly into my fascination/aspiration to innovate foreign language education in the US) and also the Wellesley student body (tied it to my desire to expand my role as a young entrepreneur and how being in an all-female environment surrounded by other empowering young women would help me flourish in this area)

Teacher Recommendation #1: 5/10, very generic but extremely positive :slight_smile:
Teacher Recommendation #2: idk, didn’t get to see it. I did talk more to this teacher more about my passions for foreign language education, going to Russia, etc so she probably had more to write about me.
Counselor Rec: probably generic
Additional Info/Rec:
Interview: nope
Art Supplement: nope. I should have though!

[ b]Other[ /b]
U.S. State/Territory or Country: Minnesnowta
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Chinese-American
Gender: bruh
Income Bracket Range: 100,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): nope

[ b]Reflection[ /b]
Strengths: My ECs and essays
Weaknesses: Definitely my GPA/testing scores.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted because I spent so long on my essays and Wellesley is genuinely my top choice! I’m glad readers got to see that. Also because of my ECs/focused goals
What would you have done differently?: DEFINITELY tried to raise my GPA/testing scores.
Where else did you apply? Grinnell (accepted), University of Minnesota TC (accepted), Bryn Mawr College, Macalester College, Kenyon College. Still waiting on those last three but am really hoping that I’ll end up at Wellesley. It depends on the financial aid I would get.

[ b]Other Factors: [ /b]

[ b]General Comments & Advice:[ /b] DON’T LOSE HOPE. I’ve honestly felt so incompetent during the whole college application process because I felt like my test scores and GPA were not up to par with any of the colleges I originally wanted to go to, and going onto CC did not help at all.
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I was looking for unlikelies in old threads… So here I am

UNLIKELY
ACT 32 - 33 superscore
SAT II - 800 Math II, 720 Physics, 640 Chem, 620 Lit (ergg)
GPA 3.84 UW, no weighted, no rank
Senior year course load: Developmental Psychology (DualEnrollment), Programming in C++ (DE), Logic (DE), Intro to Philosophy (DE), US gov & pol (DE), Calculus (Honors 1 sem then recommended for DE 2nd semester), English, JROTC, Econ, Speech, Choir, Fencing
Awards: Nothing major… AP Scholar, Visual Arts Award, Science Inquiry Award, English Award, Superintendents’ list stuff

ECs: Lots of volunteering, Invented my own project and organization for pretty crazy stuff not everybody bothers doing, Traveling (taking my gap year right now), Ham Radio and Fencing, Taking online courses for fun (got >10 certificates from pretty prestigious universities)

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: In my CA essay I talked about no specific topic but … my self. It’s a good general essay considered my philosophy teacher said it was one of the best writings he had seen in a while, but I’m not sure how good it is for college admission.
I think my Wellesley essay is where it sucks. I didn’t show much passion for Wellesley, and umm for women, but I believe I stated what I wanted to do in college and in life and I did have great passion for those.

Teacher Recommendations: I went to 4 different schools so they have known me less than 1 year but they do love me academically and personally so I don’t care that much about how good their recommendations are…

Counselor Rec: She loves me (and it doesn’t matter that much to colleges but I love her too)

Additional Info/Rec: Sent them a webpage with my pictures and experiences and writings

Interview: None
Art Supplement: None

Other
U.S. State/Territory or Country: Foreign, then NE, then NM
I’m still an international student btw
School Type: lazy to list them…
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: ~30K
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): None

Strengths: I love my CA essay and my writings on the additional webpage I sent them. Uncommon experiences.

Weaknesses: Leadership positions. I’m probably much more laid-back than the women at W. And interest in the college, I think? I love Wellesley for what it has to offer, not what it is… what made me apply to W in the first place is its connection with MIT which is my dream school but for some certain reasons I didn’t apply. And an international student who won’t pay full tuition

Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: above

What would you have done differently?: Love the college

I had imagined the scenery I got unlikely but it’s still a little bit unexpected…

Congrats to all who made the Likely list and to all the possibles - you do have something that they love and want to take more time to consider it, really. Stick with it and good luck :slight_smile:

[ size=4][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Deferred **[/color][/size]

[ b]Objective:[ /b]

SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2160 (730/660/770)
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2230 (730/730/770)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
ACT superscore (breakdown): N/A
SAT II (subject, score): 800 Chinese, 710 Biology Molecular
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.79
Weighted GPA: 4.5/5.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): dunno
AP (place score in parentheses): (3) WHAP, (3) Biology, (4) APUSH, (4) Computer Science, (5) Chinese
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Calculus AB (AP), Econ (AP), Gov (AP), Anatomy, Art History (AP), English (AP), PE/Teacher Aid.
Number of other EA applicants in your school: 2?
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): lol none
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.):
AP Scholar
Honor Roll

[ b]Subjective:[ /b]

Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Marching Band Freshman year
Jazz band Freshman year
Sophomore Representative at SADD
Job/Work Experience:
None
Volunteer/Community Service:
library volunteer (Junior-Senior year)
HSYAT various club stuff (help at local state park, senior homes, animal shelters, etc. around 100 hours or so)
Summer Experience:
Fundamental Chemistry course at local community college (Grade A)
Trip to Taiwan and teach kids English.

[ b]Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):[ /b]

Essays: Believe really expressed my childhood and very professional why wellesley essay (8/10 or 9/10)
Teacher Recommendation #1: Great. (10/10)
Teacher Recommendation #2: Great. (10/10)
Counselor Rec: I dunno… (?/10)
Additional Info/Rec: third teacher also great. (10/10)
Interview:
None
Art Supplement:
None

[ b]Other[ /b]

U.S. State/Territory or Country: California YO
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: Middle lower
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development):
Nope.

[ b]Reflection[ /b]

Strengths: great teacher recommendations and alright essays
Weaknesses: almost no extracurriculars
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Not enough extracurricular
What would you have done differently?: probably my essay. would have submitted the other one and more extracurricular.
Where else did you apply? U of chicago, bunch of UCs

[ b]Other Factors: [ /b]

Immigrant 7 years ago?
I have four sisters and two brothers.

[ b]General Comments & Advice:[ /b]

Do a lot of extracurriculars!

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By the way everyone if you want to get the codes working on your post, all you have to do is remove the spaces in between the brackets. For example [ b] just remove the space. :slight_smile:

Decision: Likely

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2080 (superscored) Math: 750 Reading: 650 Writing: 680
SAT II: Math 2 - 690, Chemistry - 640
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4) Physics B (3) Calculus AB (5)
Senior Year Course Load: 4ish AP’s (Calc BC, German, Chemistry, Economics–includes micro and macro which is why it’s 4ish), Honors English, Oceanography, Enviro Science
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Student
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 yr Cross Country member (captain senior year), 2 yr varsity swimmer, 2 yr swim team manager, 4 yr track & field member, 2 yr Interact Club, 3 yr Health Careers Club (officer senior year)
Job/Work Experience: Work serving in retirement community since April 2013, babysitting
Volunteer/Community service: a lot of service with clubs in my school, nothing outside of school
Summer Activities: job? last summer I did a 2 week course at Brown University on Abnormal Psychology.
Essays: I think they were pretty good. I talked about the neuroscience major and how it will help me grow, and the preparation for higher education, because I want to attend medical school.
Teacher Recommendation: No idea. Close with chemistry teacher but not so much with history teacher.
Counselor Rec: No idea. Probably not strong since he does not know me.
Interview: I think this went very well! I connected with my interviewer and she actually hooked me up with her friend who is at the school now when I visited over the winter break.
Other
State (if domestic applicant): Pennsylvania
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: hahahahahaha
Income Bracket: both of my parents are doctors.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): legacy?
Reflection
Strengths: Essays!!! I think they were really good
Weaknesses: Sat score? Not as high as others. I was scared when I was reading thru earlier years discussion threads.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: …probably legacy. I have strong extracurriculars, course load, and grades though.

**Decision: Accepted **

Hopefully this helps someone!

Objective

SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (790 CR, 800 WR, 800 M)
ACT (breakdown): Did not take
SAT II: 750 Math II, 760 Chemistry, 760 US History, 770 Chinese w/Listening
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Chemistry: 5, AP US History: 5, AP English Language and Comp: 5, AP Psychology: 5, AP Human Geography: 5, AP Chinese: 5, AP Comparative Government: 4, AP Statistics: 4
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, AP English Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP US Government, Japanese
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist, published a paper on Japanese Tokugawa foreign relations during the 17th-19th centuries (I sent in the first page of the journal article as a supplement) in a Stanford Institute of International Studies journal, Chinese-American Semiconductor Professionals Association Scholarship (not that major), various awards from the World Affairs Council for my passion for international relations, a bunch of awards from flute competitions

Subjective

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

Director of Foreign Relations for the UN International Youth Council (currently in the midst of creating a youth-run policy journal), Youth Ambassador to Finland (1 of 12 students to receive a scholarship from the Finnish govt), Stanford Reischauer Japanese and Sejong Korean Scholar (competitive program, only 25 students nationally selected), Board Member of the Silicon Valley United Nations Association (10-12), Student Ambassador for local World Affairs Council (10-12), Principal Flutist of a state-level youth symphony and school Wind Ensemble (sent in a flute supplement) (9-12), Undersecretary general for Model UN (9-12), Director of finances for National Honor Society (10-12), Founded my own financial literacy initiative after interning at a microfinance NGO in China (10-12), Business editor for award-winning school newsmagazine (10-12)

Job/Work Experience: Interning at a microfinance NGO? That was only for a summer though.

Volunteer/Community service: Many hours through the UN Association

Summer Activities: 2013 summer was spent touring Central Europe with my youth symphony for 2-3 weeks, Interned at a Microfinance NGO in Central China, 2014 summer: Received a scholarship from the Finnish government to study abroad 7-8 weeks

Essays:
My Common App was a 8.5/10, about my experiences as a student diplomat in Finland- I talked about a Finnish word that could not be translated into English and how eventually understanding the word helped me understand the Finnish spirit
Why Wellesley was a 9/10, talked about how everything at Wellesley is named after women (and subsequently women empowerment/following in the steps of great women yet creating our own history etcetc) and about the Albright Institute

Teacher Recommendation: Stellar! From my APUSH and AP English Language teachers. I was a heavy participant in both these classes and they loved me.

Counselor Rec: Should have been pretty good; I visit my counselor a lot and she understands my aspirations

Additional Rec: Did not send. But I did send in a flute supplement.

Interview: Missed the interview scheduling deadline :frowning:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: International Relations/Linguistics/East Asian Studies- I haven’t decided yet
State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Competitive Public
Ethnicity: Chinese-American
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: ~$400,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.

Reflection

Strengths: SAT I score, unique passions and extracurriculars, not a cookie-cutter Asian, international perspective
Weaknesses: GPA, SAT II scores, bad at math
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: It’s a crapshoot! I got lucky :slight_smile:
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: UPenn College of Arts and Sciences (likely), UC Irvine w/Regents, Wellesley. Deferred: Princeton SCEA but I’m so over it, still waiting on a couple more Ivies, UC’s and privates (though not expecting much)

Gosh, Ambititious19, you have no weaknesses!

**Decision: Deferred **

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): N/A
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 33 composite, 36 English, 34 Reading, 35 English, 28 Math (eek), Writing 10
ACT superscore (breakdown): see above
SAT II (subject, score): N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Weighted GPA: N/A
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parentheses): No advanced classes offered, but second semester junior year and entire senior year is at a local university through dual enrollment, so I have ~12 classes
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: DE for all of the following: Calc-based Physics, Second-year Arabic (semesters 1 and 2), Gen Chem, Psych, English Comp, Stats, World History
Number of other EA applicants in your school: N/A
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): No awards
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): No awards (I’m homeschooled, k?)

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Ugh I don’t want to list them all but my main one is ballet six days a week, no leadership or competitions because it’s ballet. But it takes up a lot of my time and that’s why I don’t have awards or those other things most people here on CC have, because I always have mandatory class and rehearsal on Saturday and ballet comes first. I also wrote a paper that won a state competition and brought me to an international conference where I presented it to world leaders and researchers so that was cool. Treasurer of a couple clubs at my uni, super involved with my church, spent a month in Haiti volunteering, flute player (played with the philharmonic in a nearby city a couple times), and other random stuff
Job/Work Experience: I mean, I’ve taught ballet, but that was for work-study so I didn’t mention it
Volunteer/Community Service: Honestly I never recorded my time doing community service because that felt weird for me, since it wasn’t required as a homeschooler. I’ve invested a lot of time in it though.
Summer Experience: Spent month in Haiti, spent the year before that constantly running and coordinating fundraisers to raise money for it

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays: I liked my common app one well enough, but I’d give it a 7. It was just a little story. Wellesley supplement was okay, whatever. I’m pretty critical of myself and I’d give it a 6.
Teacher Recommendation #1: High school teacher. She really likes me, but she’d never written a LOR before so I don’t know how good it would be…
Teacher Recommendation #2: AMAZING 10/10 she loves me and it’s my best class…but she’s also foreign and a college prof so I don’t know actually how it was…
Counselor Rec: Um. Homeschooled. My mom was required to write it.
Additional Info/Rec: Nah.
Interview: I wanted to, but no one in my region…
Art Supplement: Should have, didn’t.

Other
U.S. State/Territory or Country: IN
School Type: Homeschool
Ethnicity: So white, man. So white.
Gender: F
Income Bracket Range: middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): no

Reflection
Strengths: I mean I don’t know. Like I said I’m overly critical
Weaknesses: Essays, LOR? Not sure.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Isn’t that really see above?
What would you have done differently?: I’ll put it in my general comments
Where else did you apply? IU (accepted w/ honors and scholarship), Purdue (honors), Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, St. Olaf, Loyola Chicago (scholarship), Taylor University (scholarship)

**Other Factors: **

General Comments & Advice: I’m SO HAPPY that I got a possible! I didn’t even know until my junior year that I could go somewhere outside of my small town because no one ever does and to be considered by Wellesley is AMAZING. I know I probably sound weird to you guys because you’re all so accomplished but though I love being homeschooled, I don’t have a GC or other people to look to as examples, especially living in a small rural area. The furthest anyone ever goes is two hours away to IU, and everyone else goes to the local commuter school, community, or a Christian college and this is so exciting and I’m so happy for all of you who got likelies and possibles to and to the unlikelies you’re still going to be great oh my goodness
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Decision: Likely

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 800/750/800/I think 10 essay?
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): See above, only took it once
ACT (breakdown): Didn’t take
ACT superscore (breakdown): Didn’t take
SAT II (subject, score): Math II 800, Molecular Bio 800, Chem 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.71 at time of app
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/189 at time of app
AP (place score in parentheses): Sophomore year: Stats (5), World History (5), Junior year: Bio (5), Cal BC (5), Cal AB subscore (5), Chem (5), English Lang/Comp (5), Human Geography (5), US History (5)
IB (place score in parentheses): Didn’t take/not offered
Senior Year Course Load: AP Environmental Science, AP Macroeconomics 1st sem/AP US Government 2nd sem, AP Computer Science A, AP Physics 2, AP Psychology 1st sem/JHU CTY Multivariable Calculus 2nd sem, AP English Lit/Comp, mandatory health science thing
Number of other EA applicants in your school: At least 1
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): none
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National AP Scholar, National Merit Semifinalist as of app, state-wide math competition honorable mention I guess, 1st place school science fair, school-wide top all-around student recognition thingy

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Multiple leadership positions in each of All-State orchestra (9-10), All-Region orchestra (9-11), award-winning youth orchestra with large time commitment (9-11); 2nd chair first violin on youth orchestra’s national radio performance (9); top marks in state-wide music contest (9-10); 2nd place in state-wide special talent competition (10); Beta Club school chapter president (12); 2nd place HOSA state for Medical Spelling (11); NHS member (11-12)
Job/Work Experience: Didn’t list any on app
Volunteer/Community Service: ~50 hours food bank (10); ~100+ hours hospital (11); some stuff with NHS that I didn’t list hours for (11-12)
Summer Experience: Organic chemistry research through full-scholarship 5-week program (12); merit scholarship to invitation-only chamber music festival (11)

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays:
-Common App: My life story told in a ~deep, creative, metaphorical~ way, turned out decently, 8/10 or so
-Wellesley 100: Whitin Observatory and Wellesley-Brandeis orchestra, in the same vein as Common App, 8/10
Teacher Recommendation #1: AP chem teacher - likes me, known for writing good recs, 8.5-9/10
Teacher Recommendation #2: AP English teacher - see above, likes me more than AP chem teacher does, 9/10
Counselor Rec: Due to my former counselor leaving I got a new counselor last minute, so 5-6/10, probably really generic
Additional Info/Rec: Violin teacher sent in a rec - very understanding of my personal situation, loves me, 10/10
Interview: Didn’t have one, oops
Art Supplement: Violin - sent in a concerto movement (6.5/10) and a showpiece (7.5/10)

Other
U.S. State/Territory or Country: Texas
School Type: Public magnet
Ethnicity: Korean-American
Gender: yeah
Income Bracket Range: ~120k
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): None - I doubt girl in STEM is really a hook anywhere, and especially not at Wellesley

Reflection
Strengths: Academics. Academics academics academics. I’ve taken one of the hardest courseloads at my school to date and had to fight for it - the only person to do anything this hard in previous years didn’t apply to Wellesley. Validated my grades in these courses through good AP scores. Also good SAT I/II scores
Weaknesses: Lack of conventional leadership (club/class office), lack of EC variety, lack of national/international achievement in violin
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: See strengths
What would you have done differently?: A lot…gone to another high school, for starters
Where else did you apply? Case Western, Cornell, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, Johns Hopkins, Princeton (deferred SCEA), Rice, Stanford, UT Austin (accepted to engineering + Plan II honors), Yale

**Other Factors: ** I didn’t disclose my personal stuff, so that was a non-issue

General Comments & Advice: If academics is your strong point rather than ECs, then you really do have a chance. Go for it. I was expecting a possible because I’m the epitome of an Asian STEM nerd without the Siemens/Intel/USXXO to go with it, but here I am.

**Decision: Likely! **

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 780/770/800/9
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Same, 2330 (I took it twice but EVERYTHING was better the second time. I went from a 2040 to a 2330 in 1 month because my writing went from a 600 to an 800!)
SAT II (subject, score):
Math 2: 790
Biology E: 760
Chemistry: 730
English Language: 730
US History: 720
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: like a 4.4? don’t quote me on this haha
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/1, I’m homeschooled (I take online classes and classes at a charter school though, so my grades are official)
AP (place score in parentheses):

AP Human Geography: 4
AP Biology: 4
AP English Literature: 5
AP USH: 5
AP English Lang: 5
AP Macroecon: TBD
AP Physics C MEM: TBD
AP Calculus BC: TBD
AP Environmental Science: TBD
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Macroecon
AP Calc BC
AP Environmental Science
Spanish 4
British Literature
AP Physics C MEM
Number of other EA applicants in your school: 0
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): Nothing big in this category, I did win the President’s Gold Volunteer Service award though
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): A bunch of senate certificates for pageantry, hosting my own benefit concert, volunteer service, etc. AP Scholar with honors, can’t remember exactly what I put down (sorry).

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
Robotics (9th and 12, mentored a team this fall), Piano (9-12), Violin/Youth Symphony (9-12), Speech and Debate (9-12, taught a speech class to junior high kids), Kickboxing (11-12), Beauty Pageants (10-11?), plus all my internships. (There’s probably more I’m forgetting here, sorry)
Job/Work Experience: Worked at Subway the summer after Sophomore year, JUST got a job at Starbucks (not on my application though)
Volunteer/Community Service: Over 900 hours, I had a ridiculous amount of volunteer hours mainly from my internships
Summer Experience:
Summer 2011:
Organized and hosted my own benefit concert, raised over $3k
Interned for a local senator, gave presentations in the community and networked with officials

Summer 2012:
Went to China for a month on my own for a summer camp at a university
(I feel like I did something else this summer, but I can’t remember it right now. If I remember, I’ll add it later)

Summer 2013:
Worked at Subway
Interned at a local Chamber of Commerce

Summer 2014:
Interned at the UCSD Supercomputer Center
Interned at Kramer Engineering
Attended an all female construction camp!!!

Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
Essays:
I thought my common app essay was okay, probably about an 8. The intro was catchy and cute, but didn’t totally flow with the rest of the essay. My Wellesley supplement was absolutely stellar though, one of the best applications that I’ve submitted. I wrote about Cirque du CS and studying abroad, and I wrote from the perspective that I was already studying in Spain. It was cute, funny, expressed my love of the school, and just all around one of the most incredible college essays I’ve written!!
Teacher Recommendation #1: Math teacher - he tends to write very brief recommendation letters, but he thought I was one of the best students he ever had, if not the best. I also had him as a biology tutor during my freshman year, so I’ve known him for a while.
Teacher Recommendation #2: Spanish teacher - she absolutely ADORES me. She texts me all the time and we have so many inside jokes (“I louuuve it”)! She’s honestly like a mom to me, and she considers me her third daughter. I’m sure this was really great.
Counselor Rec: Written by my mom (I know, awkward). She wants me to be happy and do well, so I’m sure it was phenomenal.
Additional Info/Rec: I asked my mentor at UCSD to write me a letter of recommendation, and he did. Really nice guy, he was incredibly impressed with our project and the progress my team made, so he probably wrote something nice.
Interview: My favorite interview so far! Turns out, my interviewer almost attended a concert by my favorite singer, and we both freaked out about how awesome she is! She was so nice and I just felt very comfortable.
Art Supplement: I submitted an art supplement, and I really thought it was great. I spent so many hours working on it after I submitted my main application, and I think I turned in some of my best work. I know I’m not a STELLAR artist, but it’s something that I enjoy and something that I spend time on, so I thought I would submit a supplement anyway. I really worked hard on it and I thought it looked good.

Other
U.S. State/Territory or Country: California
School Type: Homeschooled!
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: High
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): Really, nothing. Although, I am pursuing a career in engineering/computer science, which isn’t one of the most sought after majors at Wellesley, so maybe that helped me.

Reflection
Strengths: Scores, summers, community involvement, I also would like to think that I’m an interesting applicant and person.
Weaknesses: Extracurriculars (no real clubs)
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I worked really hard. And I continue to work really hard. I think I would fit in really well at Wellesley (heh, a pun!) because I think the women there are extremely driven, and so am I. I’ve been so bored after completing all of my applications that I got a job and started competing in math competitions. Not that my work load isn’t challenging, but I enjoy being continuously challenged.
What would you have done differently?: I would have worked harder my sophomore year, and started math competitions sooner!

Where else did you apply? Oh gosh, too many places. UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSB, Stanford, Olin (invited to candidates weekend/preliminary acceptance), Yale, Rice, MIT (deferred EA), Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, RIT (accepted!), Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard, USC, and Yale-NUS. Don’t ask me how I had time to get all these essays done. I started in frickin August.

**Other Factors: **
I have a lot of experience in the field I want to go into, and I tend to connect with people very easily and well.

General Comments & Advice:
High school can really burn you out. My freshman and sophomore years were absolutely MISERABLE. I hated school. I honestly almost dropped out. Thankfully, I realized that I needed to make a change, and I switched my learning format and mixed studying with free time. If there is anything that I’ve learned in high school, it’s how to manage my time and make the best of any situation. I absolutely LOVE learning (which is why I’ve taken the classes that I’ve taken), but my classes and especially trying to learn from online classes took most of the fun out of it for me. If you’re a parent, listen to your child and respect their opinions. If you’re a student, try many different things and don’t underestimate yourself. I thought I was terrible at math until I spent a little more time on it, and now math is my favorite subject. More than anything, I used my time in high school as a time of self development and intrinsic reflection. I’ve been through a lot of extremely tough situations and problems, and I learned from every single one of them. Don’t treat your high school years as an audition for college! As Sailor Moon would say, don’t waste your youth! :slight_smile:

P.S.
Sorry this is so long, I know no one really cares that much! I’m just really excited! :smiley: :blush: