<p>Happy New Year all! I'm new around here. :-)</p>
<p>I'm kind of embarrassed to be posting one of these... but, well, I am. I applied EE yesterday and I'm nervous!</p>
<p>SAT scores: 800 math, 800 critical reading, 760 writing (2360 combined)
Subject tests: 770 chem, 789 physics, 780 Math 2, 770 literature, 740 Spanish
GPA: 3.4 unweighted, a B+ (It's 5.4 weighted, but the weighting at my school is insane)
Courseload: 5 APs senior year and all advanced classes before that. I also took two languages (Spanish and Latin) for 3 years.
I took a college Arabic class at the Harvard Extension school for two semesters last year.
I've worked in various political campaigns. I'm in charge of the Gay-Straight Alliance at my school. National Honor Society. I've done National Novel Writing Month (writing a 50,000-word novel in 30 days) successfully three times.
I won the Wellesley Book Award at Junior Awards last year, as well as a few schoolwide awards for math and physics standardized tests. I'm a National Merit Semifinalist.</p>
<p>My interviewer seemed to like me and said I was "so accomplished" and "very impressive", but then she hadn't seen my GPA. That's what's worrying me: there are so many 4.0s here! I think I look pretty good otherwise.</p>
<p>Is your GPA so low because of tough classes or other circumstances? I know that when I talked to an admissions counselor, she told me that I should use the extra space on my Commonapp to explain my weak math grades my sophmore year. If you did that, then I am sure you will be fine.</p>
<p>Other than that, I think you have a pretty good chance of getting in. :D Good luck!</p>
<p>I think you have a good shot. I just got accepted ED with a 2310 SAT and a 3.45 GPA, so I suppose test scores and ECs can make up for a lower GPA, as long as you've taken difficult classes (which it appears you have).</p>
<p>I agree that you stand a decent chance. I had a 3.6 GPA (4.36 weighted) and 2350 SAT with good ECs. According to my school college/aid counselor, I was a good applicant for Wellesley, but getting in was not guaranteed. Based on that, I'd say that you're probably as qualified a candidate as many people who do get in and as qualified as many who don't. She also said that Wellesley is a very "verbal" school, so the Book Award should matter a lot. I guess the thing that one would worry about with high scores, etc but a low GPA is that it means that you're really bright but don't necessarily work as hard and live up to your potential, so on that score, I'd say your teacher recs will be key. Academic/volunteer/career-oriented ECs that require a bunch of work and commitment, as well as any sort of acceptable rationale for a low GPA, would probably help a lot as well. Also, your weighted GPA is crazy high (I definitely didn't even know that was possible...) and I'm guessing your school sends many students to top schools. Based on that, along with the other stats you posted, which don't generally correspond with a GPA like yours, I'm guessing that your school might have some grade deflation. If that's true and your school sends plenty of kids to top colleges (so that Wellesley's admissions would have gotten enough candidates/ heard enough about the school to know of any grade deflation there), than you shouldn't worry. Overall, I would expect you to get in.</p>