**Decision: Accepted/b
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 720 RW/710 Math
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: 780 World History, 700 Literature, 800 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): lol my school doesn’t do any of that
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), English Language (5), US Government (4), US History (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Art History, AP Lit, AP Psychology, Calculus, Creative Writing, and Theater
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Gold Key for Scholastic Art and Writing (lol y’all got some crazy stuff in this category good for you)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Spoken Word club (captain for three years), Board for Multicultural Symposium, Advocate for Multicultural Education, Twelve Angry Jurors (Juror 6), Lit mag (assistant literary editor last year, literary editor this year), GSA (president), One Acts (wrote and currently codirecting a play)
Job/Work Experience: I interned for Savvy Literary Agency and I was a tutor.
Volunteer/Community service: Beyond service learning at my school, I didn’t do much substantial work.
Summer Activities: I did writing camps for most of my summers, did stuff for spoken word, learned how to make movies, all that jazz.
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App I’d give a 9. I wrote about spoken word, which is super, super important to me, and it showed a lot of who I am as an applicant and what I would do at college and beyond. Wellesley 100 was a 9 as well. I wrote about my silly desire to read all of Shakespeare’s plays out loud in 24 hours, and my serious desire to study with artists and be supported as one. They really got to see my love for writing from all angles possible, and writing is the most important thing in the world to me, so they got to see a ton of who I am.
Teacher Rec #1: 8. English teacher who is my idol but I haven’t had him since sophomore year, which was a bit weird, but he’s my GSA advisor so we made it work.
Teacher Rec #2:10, she was my APUSH teacher last year and she loved me to bits.
Counselor Rec: probably a 6 because I haven’t talked to her that much.
Additional Rec: I think the agent I intern for was supposed to send a rec, but I don’t know if she ever did. If she got it through, definitely a 10 because I did good work for her and she loved it.
Interview: Didn’t have one.
Other: N/A
Applied for Financial Aid?: You betcha, I love Wellesley but it’s expensive!
Intended Major: English with creative writing concentration and Peace and Justice Studies, maybe a minor in Theater if I can squeeze it in.
State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Mexican-American, regular American
Gender: Woman
Income Bracket: >100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM (my dad’s Mexican, my mom’s black)
Reflection
Strengths: I’m a good writer, and while my extracurriculars weren’t extraordinary, they stuck really well to the narrative I wanted to portray, which is a politically active writer who also likes theater.
Weaknesses: I suck at math, y’all. Like a lot. But beyond that, I definitely could’ve pursued more with my extracurriculars. I wasn’t ever the national president of anything, and I didn’t win a ton of prestigious national awards, but I feel like if I had just applied myself more, I could have done something like that.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I talked a lot in my supplement about how much I’m obsessed with Wellesley (because it’s amazing, let’s be real), so I think that helped. In general, though, what made me stick out from other applicants (in my opinion) is that I’ve always known exactly what I wanted to do, and I pursued that. My extracurriculars and my classes show that I’m passionate about writing, theater, and social justice, and I’m going to continually pursue success in those areas. I know there are some applicants who do things because it “looks good on a college application.” Spoken word doesn’t “look good on a college application”, but I pursued it because I love it, and now it’s helped me get into this absolutely incredible college.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was rejected from Pomona, but I was accepted to Pitzer, Scripps, UCSD, UCSB, Sarah Lawrence, Grinnell, Kenyon, and Whittier.
General Comments: I’m not sure where I’m going yet or what the future holds, but I’m so happy and I hope all of you find happiness wherever you go.
