<p>copied and pasted this from the EE stats thread.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>]SAT I (breakdown): 2260 (one sitting) 800 R, 760 M, 700 W
[</em>]ACT: 32
[<em>]SAT II: U.S. History 800, Literature 730
[</em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School only provides weighted; 4.34
[<em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/225
[</em>]AP (place score in parenthesis): Lit & Comp (5), Lang & Comp (5), U.S. History (5), Euro (5), Computer Science (4), Physics (lawlz)
[<em>]Senior Year Course Load:
AP Gov - at regular high school
Arabic 1000/1010 - at Western Michigan University
History and Cinema (HIST 3015) - WMU
Writing Creative Nonfiction (ENGL 3700) - WMU
AP Calc AB - at magnet school for math/science
AP Statistics - magnet school
Honors Geology - magnet school
Honors Astronomy - magnet school
[</em>]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, AP Scholar with Distinction, various local things
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Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Gay Straight Alliance 9-12 (11-12, executive board)
National Honors Society 11-12 (Communications Officer/Secretary)
Four poems published in The Laureate, the undergraduate literary magazine sponsored by Lee Honors College of WMU 11-12
Community Literary Awards Judge 5-11
Research essay grader for Academically Talented Youth Program 9-12
Math League 11-12
Computer Science Team 10-11
Kalamazoo Area Math & Science Center research program 9-11 (it’s a three year program that culminates in a test taken junior year with a pass/fail credit that goes on the senior transcript)
[</em>]Job/Work Experience:
Internship with Michigan Citizen Action, a progressive political lobby/nonprofit 10-12
Janitorial work with a landscape architecture firm 11-12
[<em>]Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteer field staffer for One Kalamazoo, a campaign to pass a local queer rights ordinance. I trained volunteers, ran canvasses, helped recruit volunteers, and was a ‘poll captain’ on election day (10)
Helped organize local Walk for Choice (11)
[</em>]Summer Activities:
Internship mentioned above, travel to northern half of the lower peninsula of MI (mostly to read and ■■■■■ used bookstores), travel to MA for college tours, trip to NYC with my school’s PeaceJam to tour the United Nations and meet with the ambassador from Egypt. I also went to Europe with People to People summer after 9th grade, where we had a homestay in Austria and visited a concentration camp
[<em>]Essays:
Pretty good, I hope. I wrote about my experiences as someone who is half Jewish, half German when I visited the camp, and how this has complicated my worldview. The essay made my counselor and several friends laugh and cry at the same time, which is probably a good sign. My supplement essay wasn’t amazing, but was okay. I talked about wanting to use the arts (particularly poetry) as tools for social justice, and how much I liked that Wellesley emphasized graduating engineers, writers, and historians instead of women engineers, women writers, and women historians (etc.). I could have been more specific about the school, though.
[</em>]Teacher Recommendation: Great.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Pretty good, fairly personal (shockingly, going to three schools at once can make one’s schedule sort of a mess! Thus, I know my counselor pretty well)
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Other:[ul]
[</em>]State (if domestic applicant): Michigan
[<em>]School Type: Urban public (1500 kids total), competitive magnet (60 kids in my class, had to take an exam and maintain a certain GPA to get in), local university
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: is a construct
[</em>]Income Bracket: was 100k/year, then my dad was laid off, then my mom was laid off, looking at 60k next year at best
[<em>]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m super duper queer and look like Rachel Maddow? Can that count?
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Reflection:[ul]
[</em>]Strengths: Solid test scores (ACT not great, but I took it on a not-so-great day and figured my SAT would make up for it), unique background (future English major/published poet who also competed in engineering/cs competitions from a math/science magnet school), essays.
[<em>]Weaknesses: Some of my ECs are sort of generic, my leadership experience isn’t immediately obvious, just another queer English major hopeful.
[</em>]Why you think you were admitted: Academically rigorous courseload, strong scores, good essays, cool things like that? Also, geographic diversity. Most kids from the midwest go to Michigan or Wash U @ St. Louis. I guess they need to admit at least four of us so we can play euchre together.
[li]General Comments: Major mixed feelings right now. I really like Wellesley and can easily see myself being happy there, but as of today, the FA isn’t nearly enough and I’ve got a big merit scholarship to Smith and a full ride at Michigan. Wasn’t terribly surprised to be a admitted (got a likely EE), but happy nonetheless. [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Good luck to everyone, regardless of admission status.</p>
Wellesley wasn’t my first choice, but it was the first college I heard from so I’m kind of scared for possible future rejections/waitlists. Good luck to everybody else!</p>
good luck to everyone!!!</p>