Hi guys! I am a Wesleyan wannabe and am currently a 1st year at Grinnell. I have applied to Wes as an ED applicant but was not accepted. Thus, I plan to re-apply to Wes this year with a perspective major of East Asian Studies.
Given that Wes has a test optional policy, I wonder if it is to my advantage to not to send my test scores… Below is my profile and please feel free to chance me or give me some advices… Those could really help!
Semester 1 Courses:
1st year seminar
Japanese 101 ( 2nd year speaking and reading profiency but can’t write; JLPT N4 passed
German 101
Japanese society and pop culture
Semester 2 Courses:
Japanese 102
German 102
East Asian Religions
Intro to Anthropology
Predicted 1st Semester GPA: 3.83
Freshman Year EC:
Chairman of the East Asian Studies Club (I started this Club)
Member of the student government first year council and promoted Republican-supporting students’ freedom from peer pressure
Volunteer of an Orgnazation that promots liberty in North Korea
Founder of a video channel with 200k followers on a Chinese website
Recommendation letters written by advisor (who is also my 1st year seminar professor) and Japanese culture class professor
High School Information:
Best composite ACT: 31 (English 27 Math 34 Reading 28 Science 33)
Best superscored ACT:32 (English 30 Math 34 Reading 31 Science 33)
TOEFL: 104
Final HS GPA: 4.07 (w/ IB and AP courses weighted by .50)
Courses for Senior year: AP lit, AP stats, AP american gov’t, IB math SL II and Spanish II