WELLESLEY COLLEGE CLASS OF 2027 PROFILE
CLASS SNAPSHOT DEMOGRAPHICS
DISTRIBUTION
SECONDARY SCHOOL TYPE
(By location of high school)
43 states + District of Columbia and Guam
Top states represented:
TEST SCORES
(Middle-50% range; 55% of the enrolling class submitted their test scores for consideration)
HIGH SCHOOL RANK
(Of the 26% who were ranked) Top
CITIZENSHIPS REPRESENTED
27 nations of citizenship represented by non-U.S. citizens
Top countries of citizenship represented:
China
India
Canada
Brazil
Singapore
ALUMNAE RELATIVES
(Alumnae relatives including parent or grandparent)
FIRST GENERATION
(Neither parent has a four-year college degree)
Percent of entering class: 24%
FINANCIAL AID
Percent of entering class receiving financial aid award containing grant aid: 58%
Percent of entering class eligible for the Federal Pell Grant: 23%
Percent of entering class: 8%
90%
TOP NON-COGNITIVE ATTRIBUTES
Engagement in Society Intellectual Attributes
Creativity
Emotional Intelligence
Empathy Openness to New Experiences
ACCEPTANCE INFORMATION BY ENTRANCE PLAN
8,460 Applicants 1,138 Admitted (13%) 573 Enrolling (50%) 43 States represented + District of Columbia and Guam 27 Nations of citizenship
Students of color, including two or more races Total 8,460 1,138 13% Early Decision I & II 1,014 295 29% Deferred from Early Decision 292 47 16% Regular Decision 7,446 796 11%
58%
Race/Ethnicity: African American/Black 9% Asian 27% Latinx/Hispanic 14% Native American <1% Two or more races 8% Other/Not reported 1% White/Caucasian 28% International Citizens 14% Students who come from a home where at
English is spoken 53%
least one language other than
New England 18% Pacific & Mountain 23% South 18% Mid-Atlantic 16% Central 10% International & Americans Abroad 15%
REPRESENTED
STATES
California Massachusetts New
Texas New Jersey
York
Public and Charter 59% Independent 31% Religious 10% Homeschools <1%
SAT EBRW 720–770 SAT Math 720–780 ACT Composite 33–35
Ten Percent:
APPLIED ADMIT RATE ACCEPTED
Statistics as of 9.13.2023
Director
Director
(Southern) • Europe HI
Stiles Director of Admission Strategy & Communication
Director Asia • IL • Middle East
• WI
Strategy & Communication
• NV •
’21
Director NY • TX
Director AK • AL • AR • Caribbean • GA • ID • KY • LA Latin America •MS • MT • NC • OK • OR • SC South America • TN • WA • WV • WY
Senior Assistant Director Africa • AZ • Canada • China NM • US Territories • APO
Director of Admission Operations Office of Admission 781-283-2270 admission@wellesley.edu wellesley.edu/admission
Assistant Director CA (Northern) • IA • IN • KS • MI MN • MO • ND • NE • OH • SD T. Peaches Valdes Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Anna L. Young Associate Director and Transfer/Davis Scholar Coordinator CT • DC • MD • ME NH • RI • VA • VT Eliana
Associate Director DE • FL • NJ PA • PR
Lauren Kudisch Senior Associate
MA Cassandra Clifford Assistant
CA
Beky
Jenna Hill Assistant
Oceania
Weston Conner Assistant Director of
CO
UT Jill V. Chambers Associate Director of Admission Analytics Aminah Praileau
Assistant
Adriana Fernandez Assistant
Natalie Figueroa
Nicole Howell Assistant
Sabrina Najarian
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