WELLESLEY COLLEGE ADMISSION REPORT
FALL 2017
Standardized Testing Updates • SAT II Subject Tests not required
Wellesley has eliminated the SAT Subject Test requirement. Applicants who want to self-report SAT Subject Tests, AP scores, or IB exam results to demonstrate particular academic strengths can do so through the testing section of the Common Application, Coalition Application, or QuestBridge Application.
• Support for students facing financial challenges
If your students face financial challenges in meeting Wellesley’s standardized testing requirements, they should reach out to the Office of Admission for guidance in submitting their application. In some instances, the Office of Admission may be able to waive a standardized testing requirement due to financial hardship.
Wellesley offers Early Decision II Wellesley introduced Early Decision II last year. This plan is basically the same as ED I, other than the deadlines. ED II (binding) gives students more time in the fall to decide that Wellesley is their first choice and that, if admitted, they will commit to attending. The application deadline is January 1; students receive their final decision and financial aid notification in late February.
Wellesley now accepts the Coalition Application Wellesley is among the colleges and universities nationwide that now accepts the Coalition Application for Access, Affordability, and Success. It provides an additional option to the Common Application or the QuestBridge Application. Wellesley will consider all three applications equally in the review process.
Use of MyinTuition surges! MyinTuition, Wellesley College’s fast, user-friendly (six easy questions!) tool for estimating costs for a student to attend a four-year college, is helping to boost applications from lowincome students according to a recent news report by WGBH. Wellesley launched MyinTuition in 2013; since then 14 additional schools have adopted it, with more to come. New users have obtained 30,000 estimates with the tool, and the numbers are growing. The inventor of MyinTuition, Wellesley Economics Professor Phillip Levine, attributes the surge in usage to its fulfillment of a need for information on college costs that has been sorely lacking.
want clarity in determining what it will cost to “ Parents send their kids to college. This is serving a huge need.
If you are the parent of a high school student, the most important question is, ‘How much?’
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—Wellesley Economics Professor Phillip Levine
NOV 1 EARLY DECISION I
DEC 15
JAN 1
JAN 15
REGULAR DECISION WITH EARLY EVALUATION
EARLY DECISION II
REGULAR DECISION
Go to wellesley.edu/costestimator (including an animated 90-second video on how to use it) or myintuition.org (to access all schools who have adopted it).
Class of 2021 Profile See page 2.
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WELLESLEY COLLEGE CLASS OF 2021 PROFILE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
CLASS SNAPSHOT
New England
20%
Public and Charter
58%
21% 17%
Independent
33%
Admitted (22%)
Pacific & Mountain South
Enrolling (48%)
Mid-Atlantic Central
15% 11%
Parochial Homeschools
8% <1%
International & Americans Abroad
15%
5,703
Applicants
1,251 605
SECONDARY SCHOOL TYPE
43
States represented + District of Columbia & Puerto Rico
35
Nations of citizenship
49%
Students of color, including two or more races
STATES REPRESENTED by location of high school; 43 states + District of Columbia & Puerto Rico. Top states represented:
Statistics as of 9.5.2017
California Massachusetts New York New Jersey Texas
DEMOGRAPHICS Race/Ethnicity: African American/Black
7%
Asian American and/or Pacific Islander Latina/Hispanic
22% 13%
Native American Two or more races Other/Not reported
<1% 7% 1%
White/Caucasian
36%
International Citizens
13%
Students who come from a home where at least one language other than English is spoken
44%
Top countries of citizenship represented:
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing SAT Math ACT Composite
RECEIVING AID 56%
717 31
HIGH SCHOOL RANK (Of the 30% who were ranked) Top Ten Percent:
80%
ALUMNAE RELATIVES Alumnae relatives include mothers, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, or sisters. Percent of entering class:
15%
PERCENTAGE
5703
1251
22%
714
244
34%
Deferred from Early Decision
[269]
46
17%
Regular Decision with Early Evaluation
1488
471*
32%
Regular Decision
3489
489
14%
12
1
8%
Early Decision I & II 17%
720
China India South Korea Canada
Total
Neither parent has a four-year college degree.
Percent of entering class receiving financial aid award containing grant aid :
35 nations of citizenship represented by non-U.S. citizens.
MEAN TEST SCORES
ACCEPTANCE INFORMATION BY ENTRANCE PLAN APPLIED ACCEPTED
FIRST GENERATION Percent of entering class:
CITIZENSHIPS REPRESENTED
Accelerated Candidates
* Includes both students who received a Likely Early Evaluation notification and were later admitted, and students who received a Possible Early Evaluation notification and were later admitted.
Expansion of creative arts and music space provide numerous opportunities
Multicultural spaces foster collaboration and promote intercultural dialogue
Wellesley’s financial strength and strong endowment enable the College to maintain and continuously improve our stunningly beautiful campus and provide both new and renovated space when needed. Class of 2021 students will be among the first to enjoy the newly renovated and expanded Pendleton West, which features a new Center for Creative Arts and Music Arts Pavilion. The renewed spaces will incorporate new studio spaces and performance and rehearsal halls, offering expanded possibilities for engaging with the arts—accommodating emerging and traditional media. Coupled with the Davis Museum, Wellesley offers unique and immeasurable resources in the arts.
Wellesley is committed to building a living and learning environment in which each student can thrive intellectually, socially, and emotionally. This year marked the opening of Acorns House, a gathering space for students of Latinx and Asian descent and their advisors. The network of multicultural spaces on campus enables students to collaborate with and draw strength from those with whom they share a common identity while, at the same time, promoting intercultural dialogue and connection. In addition to Acorns House, Harambee House provides social, emotional, and academic support for students of African descent, as well as enlightening cultural activities, and Slater International Center, which serves as a gathering spot for international students, also hosts cultural celebrations.
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Wellesley recognized for low loan levels, low student debt Wellesley is committed to keeping debt levels low. For Wellesley students who graduated in 2015, the average student debt for all four years was $12,500. Approximately 49% of 2015 graduates borrowed. By contrast, TICAS (The Institute for College Access & Success) reported a national average of $31,100 for the Class of 2015, with roughly 70% of students borrowing. Other sources report a higher national average. In any case, Wellesley compares very favorably.
Wellesley’s new Career Education model Wellesley’s new Career Education model for the liberal arts is designed to prepare and inspire every Wellesley student to craft a lifetime of opportunity and reach her full potential. Through an individually tailored, holistic approach to career education, Wellesley students develop strategies to pursue their goals in any field, and receive continued support through all stages of their lives and all stages of the career development process. The Wellesley career education model illuminates the strengths of the liberal arts education and encourages active
participation of the full College ecosystem in order to support every Wellesley woman from the moment she arrives on-campus through her alumnae years. Connections and communities form the heart of our model. Our students proactively engage in the process of exploring the intersection between self and society, engaging and testing their curiosities, and forming meaningful connections within career communities that cover a broad array of industries and career fields. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently spotlighted Wellesley’s Career Education as a model approach to “reinventing the career center.”
Striving for inclusive excellence at Wellesley At Wellesley, diversity and inclusion are a way of life—an opportunity to explore, learn, grow, and connect. We ask that you encourage your promising high school girls to browse through the lively (two-minute) videos on our playlist —a continuing series of noble but incomplete attempts to capture the immensity of all that is Wellesley—to see many examples of how Wellesley addresses the vision and practice of inclusive excellence. As the Association of American Colleges and Universities states, addressing “diversity, inclusion, and equity is critical to the wellbeing of democratic culture.” See the playlist by visiting: wellesley.edu/admission/playlist
Dean of Admission & Financial Aid Joy St. John jstjohn@wellesley.edu Director of Admission Grace S. Cheng gcheng2@wellesley.edu Associate Director Lauren Dennis ’02 ldennis@wellesley.edu Associate Director Milena Mareva ’01 mmareva@wellesley.edu Associate Director Anna L. Young ayoung@wellesley.edu Associate Director of Marketing & Communication Deanna Doughty ddoughty@wellesley.edu Senior Assistant Director Lucy Pelham lpelham@wellesley.edu
Wellesley expands summer programs Wellesley’s popular four-week pre-college residential program for rising high school juniors and seniors provides students an opportunity to become members of the Wellesley community, take college courses and earn college credit. Participants take a required writing course and one elective course. This past summer, based on the success of the four-week program, Wellesley introduced a one-week residential workshop for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors. Both programs give attendees a chance to study with Wellesley faculty, experience life on campus and explore the Boston area. For some young women, these programs have been life changing—providing them with a better sense of their own potential and how they might contribute to their communities in the future.
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Senior Assistant Director Natasha Robinson nrobins5@wellesley.edu Assistant Director Ferni Cruz ’16 mcruz@wellesley.edu Assistant Director Molly Morrow ’10 mmorrow@wellesley.edu Assistant Director Lisa Summergrad lsummerg@wellesley.edu Assistant Director of Marketing & Communication Carlee Shults cshults@wellesley.edu
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