Anonymous
07/28/2025 21:29
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:Our HADES school made all students get one stem and one humanities recommendation. College placement was excellent.
What on earth is a HADES school?
Anonymous
07/28/2025 21:29
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Typical dcum. Just because my snowflake goes to xxxx, xxxx suddenly becomes a hard admit. Your kid isn’t getting in!
Anonymous
07/28/2025 21:27
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Who is the ahole poster(s) claiming the OP's daughter is applying test optional? I didn't read that anywhere.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 21:25
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:It's just so frustrating dealing with so many college admissions amateurs. This student has zero chance at getting into Wes.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
OP here. DD has read the Wes website. DD took physics in 11th and will take calculus in 12th grade, so she'll meet the requiremnt. As I mentioned in my initial post, she has not taken science or math at the AP level. She is open to applying ED and will take SAT again this August but probably needs to apply TO.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 21:24
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's just so frustrating dealing with so many college admissions amateurs. This student has zero chance at getting into Wes.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
I suspect they care about it because they don't get all that many strong science applicants.
This is pretty weak sauce trolling.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 21:21
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan requires that one recommendation is from STEM teacher
The wording on their site is “you are encouraged.” So not required.
“You are encouraged to submit one from a humanities, social sciences, or foreign language teacher and one from a math or science teacher”
So let’s get this straight. You’re suggesting that a student with no strong stem classes, no test scores, and no recommendation from a stem teacher even though it is “encouraged” has more than a snowball’s chance in hell at getting into one of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the country?
Ok.
Don’t quit your day job.
Amen. People on this board think the only tough SLAC admits are WASP. Keep thinking you can breeze in to Wes during RD TO with a bunch of Bs or weak rigor as compared to what is offered at your school.
This isn't true. It's not that strong an applicant pool in ED. Wes's ED acceptance rate is around 40% and they fill more than half the class in that round. The kids I know who were admitted are great kids but they are not ultra strong applicants. RD is a different story.
Umm, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. Wes, like most D3 schools, locks in their athletes in ED, which may account for your annecdata. No one is saying Wes is Princeton, but it is a hard admits for the vast majority of kids. You can take this perspective to the “which schools are really elite” thread.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 21:09
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:It's just so frustrating dealing with so many college admissions amateurs. This student has zero chance at getting into Wes.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
I suspect they care about it because they don't get all that many strong science applicants.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 21:01
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan requires that one recommendation is from STEM teacher
The wording on their site is “you are encouraged.” So not required.
“You are encouraged to submit one from a humanities, social sciences, or foreign language teacher and one from a math or science teacher”
So let’s get this straight. You’re suggesting that a student with no strong stem classes, no test scores, and no recommendation from a stem teacher even though it is “encouraged” has more than a snowball’s chance in hell at getting into one of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the country?
Ok.
Don’t quit your day job.
Amen. People on this board think the only tough SLAC admits are WASP. Keep thinking you can breeze in to Wes during RD TO with a bunch of Bs or weak rigor as compared to what is offered at your school.
This isn't true. It's not that strong an applicant pool in ED. Wes's ED acceptance rate is around 40% and they fill more than half the class in that round. The kids I know who were admitted are great kids but they are not ultra strong applicants. RD is a different story.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 20:44
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's just so frustrating dealing with so many college admissions amateurs. This student has zero chance at getting into Wes.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
Honey, 15% didn’t take Calculus. That’s not zero chance.
Can she hoop?
More like can she draw? LACs love students from arts high schools, and they can just take the history of math courses for quantitative skills
Anonymous
07/28/2025 20:33
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's just so frustrating dealing with so many college admissions amateurs. This student has zero chance at getting into Wes.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
Honey, 15% didn’t take Calculus. That’s not zero chance.
Can she hoop?
Anonymous
07/28/2025 20:31
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's just so frustrating dealing with so many college admissions amateurs. This student has zero chance at getting into Wes.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
Honey, 15% didn’t take Calculus. That’s not zero chance.
The kid ain't getting in.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 20:13
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:It's just so frustrating dealing with so many college admissions amateurs. This student has zero chance at getting into Wes.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
Honey, 15% didn’t take Calculus. That’s not zero chance.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 20:08
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
It's just so frustrating dealing with so many college admissions amateurs. This student has zero chance at getting into Wes.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
According to its own website, 85 percent of accepted applicants took Calculus and 79 percent took all three of biology, chemistry and physics. And they "encourage" a letter of recommendation from a stem teacher.
They wouldn't put all of this on their website if they didn't care about stem.
Anonymous
07/28/2025 19:15
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan requires that one recommendation is from STEM teacher
Wesleyan is not really open curriculum - gen eds required if doing a thesis or graduating with honors.
This person always posts this about Wesleyan. So I always feel compelled to post in reply that virtually no open curriculum schools are “truly” open curriculum. Only Brown and Amherst, based on my research. Vassar requires foreign language, Hamilton requires writing classes, Smith (like Wes) requires a distribution of classes for honors.
To be clear: to graduate with honors at Wes, you need to take three classes in each of three areas. Many kids will do this in two areas just through the normal course of events; my kid is double-majoring in a humanities area and a social sciences area, for example, so only has to take three science/math classes that he might not have otherwise (and one of them he probably would have taken out of personal interest). And, of course, you don’t have to graduate with honors! In which case, no requirements.
On your topic, OP, my kid was accepted TO to Wes, but he had AP classes in math and science. They like to see calculus and biology/chemistry/physics (per their first-year profile page). Not saying she can’t get in with her profile but just noting for expectation setting.
Grinnell only requires the First Year Tutorial:
https://www.grinnell.edu/admission/why-grinnell/our-academics
And even Brown requires two writing classes: https://college.brown.edu/design-your-education/complete-your-degree/degree-requirements/writing-requirement
Anonymous
07/28/2025 19:13
Subject: Humanities heavy candidate ok for Humanities major?
Check out Macalester; her chances there are good, and they give merit.