RD Chances Please

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wellesley College
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<p>Asian female, born in New York, schooled in Texas</p>

<p>My cousin attended Wellesley.</p>

<p>SAT: 2230 780M/750C/700W
SAT II: 760 Math II, 730 Biology E, 720 Literature</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 5.7826 out of 6.0
Unweighted GPA: 4.0 out of 4.0
Rank: 4 out of 567</p>

<p>Public High School
--Member of its Medical Sciences Academy
--Most Rigorous Curriculum</p>

<p>Awards:
--1st Place National Champion, Health Occupations Students of America (11)
--2nd place National Runner Up, Health Occupations Students of America (10)
--National Merit Semifinalist
--Houston Youth Symphony
--1st Place HMTA Jazz Pop Festival
--99% Texas Music Theory Exam
--1st place District Finalist, Computer Science
--Hugh O'Brian Youth Region Leadership Conference
--Highest Average in grade level in: Computer Science I, French IV, Algebra II, World Geography
--2nd place Korean Scientists and Engineers Contest</p>

<p>Internships: (I'm guessing this is what makes me stand out)
--MD Anderson Cancer Center
--St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
--Neurosurgery/Neurology Internship at Southwest Memorial Hermann Hospital</p>

<p>Volunteer:
--PASSPORTS (taught 5th graders from 2 different schools how to speak French) 50 hours?
--Southwest Memorial Hermann Hospital (Human Resources) 200 hours?
--Colony Baptist Church 25 hours?</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
--Health Occupations Students of America- 10,11,12 Vice Pres (12) Parliamentarian (10), 2 varsity letters
--French Honor Society- 11,12 Vice Pres, Public Relations Officer
--Varsity Orchestra- 9,10,11 Concertmaster
--Piano- Headliner 6 consecutive years
--Solo band- composes and records demos, plays houseshows
--Instruments- Piano, Violin, Viola, Voice, Guitar, Bass</p>

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<li>more ECs that I don't feel like typing</li>
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<p>aw thanks. =)
anymore thoughts from others will be appreciated.</p>

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<p>why do you want to go to wellesley..?</p>

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<p>What do you mean?
The ellipses after the question makes me think it's not a literal question, am I right?</p>

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<p>No, it means I was tired. F'rizzle, why do you want to go to Wellesley? All the stats in the world won't get you in if you can't convince them you actually want to <em>go</em>.</p>

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<p>Heyy, miss zana, we have almost identical stats (very different EC's, though). Good luck to both of us this year :)</p>

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<p>thanks!
good luck =)</p>

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<p>ohh miss zanna,
Since you already know you are applying to Wellesley, you might as well send your app in for EE and hear (sort of) sooner.</p>

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<p>yeah that's what I was wondering...
I think it's just knowing earlier.
So it's similar to a nonbinding EA?</p>

<p>oh and any more input about my chance would be appreciated =)</p>

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<p>bump. I was just wondering...in your opinion how do you think I stand compared to Wellesley's average students?</p>

<p>Just by stats alone...I know essays etc count too and blah blah.</p>

<p>Sorry for being annoying. lol</p>

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<p>I think your SATs are above or at least well within range of Wellesley's typical scores, but beyond that, I have no idea. I'm just a fellow applicant, lol.</p>

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<p>haha thanks, that's pretty much what I wanted to know, I found it on their website, which hadn't been working for me for a while.</p>

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<p>::EDIT:: I am sending my app for EE, got in wrong in the title.</p>

<p>Anymore thoughts?</p>

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<p>No real advantage other than knowing sooner. It has no effect on other ED programs.</p>

<p>Though if you are rejected, you are rejected twice which sort of sucks.</p>

<p>You're stats seem fine. To be honest, I know the vague range of SAT scores of about seven people at Wellesley, all of which are from the old test. Admission isn't a big topic among admitted students anywhere.</p>

<p>Two of my friends posted their SAT scores in some sort of online forum, and both had somewhere in the 1500s. Both were not ED students, but I don't know if they did EE. I don't think they know I found their SAT scores listed online.
I was at friend's house with my roommates. The friend's little sister had taken the SAT recently, and the friend mentioned her math score was somewhere in the 600s. My roommate mentioned having around the same score. Both were ED.
One of my friends (not ED) asked me once if I was "one of those people" who got a 1600 on the SATs. I said no, it was a 1570.
Another of my friends (a physics major) likes to tell people that her math SAT was 130 points lower than her verbal and she doesn't know why she is being a science major.
Finally, in my first year, I found a newspaper article about a fellow student lying around a dept mailbox (my happening upon this article isn't as sketchy as it souunds). It was one of those embarrasing articles that local newspapers like to write about graduating seniors, all gushy about what kind of model citizen you are. I've actually had a couple written about me, and it's a weird experience. The student in question had gotten into both MIT and Wellesley and chose Wellesley. She also had an 800 on her math, but I don't know anything else. The article was particularly amusing if only because of what it predicted for the person in question, how the reporter saw her, how her Wellesley career has gone, and how I know her. </p>

<p>Two years ago I read stats to my roommate who found that most were higher than hers and felt everyone was a shoo in, but I think not everyone got in anyway. So that's all I really know about stats.</p>