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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