Accepted. 1590 SAT, 3.9 UW GPA. Few but devoted EC’s, and legacy. No interview/visit.
Accepted. 1560 SAT, 3.5 GPA. Pretty decent ECs but nothing extraordinary. No interview. International with an almost full-ride scholarship.
Was really feeling deflated after 6 straight rejections but I’m feeling awesome rn.
Accepted, a little over 40k in gift aid!
Highkey shocked, I thought I would be rejected 
White female
Math major
1520 SAT 770 Math II
4.45 W 3.92 UW
NHS & Class President
YMCA Nationals qualified gymnast
Submitted art portfolio
(No demonstrated interest whoops)
@splokey it’s FedEx. And it turns out that I am admitted!
Accepted
White female
Didn’t submit scores
English major
4.4 weighted GPA
6 honor societies, editor and chief of lit mag, writing fellow, student musical director, 7 APs
Submitted original music
Shocked and so so happy right now. Congrats to everyone!!!
D1 Accepted. 1530 SAT, 4.0 GPA. Ranked 1 / 200+. Submitted Art Portfolio. Minimal ECs, No interview.
Like @blvck_pvnther was feeling down after 4 straight waitlists (Pomona, Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst) and one rejection (Oberlin) this past week.
Almost a full-ride scholarship and $11.6k more than Grinnell, which is where we were making plans to go. Very happy right now. Congrats to all who got in.
Accepted!! After being rejected from Northwestern, Barnard, Colgate, and Midd in the last 24 hours I really needed this haha. 33 ACT, 800 Lit and US SAT 2’s. 4.50-ish GPA, unweighted. SO excited!!
Would it be reasonable to assume that any kid wait-listed might not be the beneficiary of any (or much) grants or scholarships? Wesleyan seems pretty generous to those who got it, but I’m wondering if my WL’d D should even bother if the chance of getting a reduction of some kind is slight.
Waitlisted.
4.0 Gpa
IB Diploma Candidate
1470 SAT
Strong ECs
@ImOkayHowRU - I am not in the know, but I would expect Wesleyan would still give grants and scholarships. I wouldn’t expect it to be as much. I expect merit is graded from most desirable students on down. But need based scholarship should still be considered. Certainly it’s worth being on the waiting list to find out. Unfortunately, getting off the waitlists is not something to wait for. If Wesleyan is still desirable, get on the waitlist, choose a good college, put down a deposit, presume you’re going there, forget Wesleyan and by the end of May if you hear something different, then it’ll be a surprise and something to consider then.
Reconsidering my answer, what obfuscates it more is not knowing how or even if scholarship at Wesleyan is divided by merit and need as is clearly done at other schools. Our scholarship was listed as a single number. Probably only someone who was taken off the waitlist can answer this.
ED1 Deferred to RD then accepted
@rmsdad - I had a conversation with Wesleyan FA officer. She mentioned that other than literally a very few scholarships, school only provide needbase aid.
I should say “merit scholarships”. So if your CSS crosses a certain number, almost no merit scholarship.
@rmsdad @SatKam Apart from the Freeman Asian Scholarship and the Hamilton Prize, Wesleyan only gives need-based aid. Whether you get a merit scholarship has nothing to do with income - unless you applied specifically to the above mentioned programs, it’s need-based aid only (this is the case at Wesleyan’s peer schools as well, with almost no exceptions).
@ImOkayHowRU Wesleyan does not reduce the financial aid award for those accepted off the waitlist. The “formula” used to calculate need is the same, as Wesleyan meets 100% of need. The difference is that the waitlist is need-aware, so if Wesleyan comes in over budget, someone needing a lot of aid is less likely to come off the waitlist. However, if chosen for acceptance, they would get the aid they would have gotten through an RD acceptance.
My understanding is that Wesleyan is need aware throughout the admission process.
Wesleyan’s package was incredibly generous in meeting 100% of our needs without loans for D2. But I wonder why they do not rank higher on all the “Most Generous” lists .
I found https://www.wesleyan.edu/finaid/Affording/index.html on the Weselyan page which gives a clearer idea how they come up with their numbers.
Also, Wesleyan moved away from need blind back in 2012 according to online articles.
@merc81 @rmsdad The “difference” I was describing was just me trying to explain that Wesleyan both meets full need and is need aware, sorry if that wasn’t clear (the main point was Wes won’t reduce your aid package because you’re a waitlist admit). Wasn’t trying to state Wes is need-blind, which they have unfortunately not been since 2012.
Got my acceptance package in the mail yesterday- is anyone else’s acceptance letter hand signed? Other people I’ve talked to haven’t had hand signed letters from Wes. This is the only school that’s done this, so I’m curious
Yes, my D2’s letters were signed as well. She noticed it as unique and commented on it. It seemed like a nice personal touch.