<p>I'm an international student from Asia, started to study in a bilingual school since 9th grade...so my English is not as good as people who attend American school and native speakers.</p>
<p>I want to apply Early Decision for Wellesley</p>
<p>The following are my scores:
SAT I
reading 480
writing 530
Math 800
SAT II
Math level 2 800
Chinese 800
TOEFL 95 (I'll take it again and I'm aiming for 100)
GPA 4 or above(our school hasn't told us yet)
I'm the top student in my class but our school says they don't provide class ranking--</p>
<p>but I will have SAT next week and I think my reading will be above 500 and writing I hope I can get above 600. I will take US his in November and I think I will score above 500...</p>
<p>Extracurricular activity:
baking club
volunteer
class president
class vice president
piano </p>
<p>In schools in our country, it is hard to have a lot of extracurricular activities because we have to study all day long.</p>
<p>My mom went to Wellesley.</p>
<p>So do I have a chance to get into Wellesley if I applied Early Decision?
What can I do to have a higher chance to get into Wellesley?</p>
<p>I really hope I can get in Wellesley.</p>
<p>Also, I have a question, do students in Wellesley have a lot of papers and assignments?</p>
<p>Do students in all of those good schools (such as those top 30 schools) have lots of papers and assignments? Or only liberal art colleges like Wellesley have A LOT of papers and assignments?</p>
<p>I don’t know the answer to your question. My guess is if a school is highly ranked and selective in admissions, then admitted students will need to work hard and will be challenged academically. </p>
<p>If you have other specific schools in mind, you might want to post in those forums and ask current students about the workload?</p>
<p>I just know from my D’s experience that Wellesley is a lot of work. I don’t think there are any easy classes offered that don’t require a lot of work.</p>
<p>SATs don’t necessarily tell the whole story, but your V and WR scores are comparatively low. According to Wellesley’s current Common Data set, 9.9% of accepted students have SAT verbal scores in the 500-599 range, and 7.8 percent have writing scores in that range. Anyone with a 650 score on either Verbal or Writing is below the 25th percentile in those areas. In this year’s cohort, no one had a verbal score below 500. </p>
<p>No one can say, “Don’t apply,” but you need to be realistic and have safeties.</p>
<p>NJSue, I know my score is quite low compare to other applicants, but I think English is really hard for international students. I don’t know if I can get into Wellesley or not so I definitely have other schools to apply:)</p>
<p>MaxVoCou, I know… I took sat Chinese when I was a junior…I registered US history on November and I’m regretting now since us history is really hard. I didn’t think I did a good job on my October sat I… Do u think that I should take sat I on December or another subject test on December… Really confused now…</p>
<p>Please don’t be discouraged. If you want to apply, you should. It’s really hard to know why one student gets in and another doesn’t, but I know that Wellesley does look at legacy status, and they put a lot of weight on the essay.</p>
<p>Scores do matter, however, so to see how yours compare to those of this year’s batch of admitted students, check out this link:</p>
<p>It would be helpful to you to get your Critical Reading score a little higher, because that is the most important score in gauging a student’s preparedness for college level work, but if you can’t, you should still apply. As you can see from the table in the link, there were a handful of students with lower CR scores who did get in.</p>
you can take any subject test that is offered in November even though you registered for US History. If that is seeming hard as you prepare for the exam, consider a science – or another language? You don’t <em>need</em> another SAT II but the Chinese score doesn’t mean much. If you are proficient in another language or knowledgable in Bio, Chem or Physics, try one of those.
Taking the TOEFL again and scoring at least 100 may help to offset other indications of weakness in English language skills.
Is there a possibility of trying the ACT in November or December…? I know there may be very few test sites where you are but the ACT is a more straightforward test and would probably be easier for you as the SAT is kind of a <em>tricky</em> test even for native English speakers, and requires a more strategic approach. Also if you submit ACT scores you don’t have to send SAT II’s. You could check here and see: [Test</a> Center Codes - International | ACT Student](<a href=“ACT Registration | ACT Testing Dates | The ACT Test”>ACT Registration | ACT Testing Dates | The ACT Test)
And as you can see, you can continue to test through December for RD or EE and through November for ED. [Deadlines</a> | Wellesley College](<a href=“http://www.wellesley.edu/admission/apply/deadlines]Deadlines”>http://www.wellesley.edu/admission/apply/deadlines)
I agree that the legacy will help you quite a lot and the fact that it is your mother is that much stronger in your favor.
So, good luck… I hope your testing and application to Wellesley are successful!</p>
<p>Thanks Massmomm and honeybee63:))
I scored 105 on my second TOEFL, so I’ve got over 100 already!
However, my second SAT score was such a disaster:( I got 470 on reading, 570 on writing, and 700 on math!!! It was even worse than the previous one:(
Therefore, I decided to take ACT on December…(For my other schools…since I applied ED for Wellesley already…)
I think I did hard on my essay…I really hope that I can get into Wellesley><</p>