<p>Thanx! Yeah I understand that interaction with professors outside of class is limited by their schedules, but it’s good to know there’s a chance to talk outside of class.</p>
<p>Hi, everybody. I hope your first Wellesley finals went well and that you got the report cards you wished for…</p>
<p>So here’s a new question: My daughter is taking a whole slew of classes senior year (AP Calc, AP Chem, AP Eng Lit, an honors philosophy class, an independent research project, and an art class in addition to a foreign language class which is not necessary for graduation. She already took an AP foreign language class as a freshman (with a 5 on the AP exam and an A in the class both semesters) and she has already done 3 1/2 years of the second foreign language. This more than satisfies the language requirements for graduation from her high school. </p>
<p>She was planning to do one more semester of the second language the second half of senior year just because she loves the teacher, but he has suddenly taken a leave of absence and a battle axe has been hired to sub for him. Now my daughter no longer wants to do the second semester. Do you think the Admissions Office will object if she asks to drop the class? </p>
<p>Thanks for any insight you can give us.</p>
<p>Oops… I had another question. Is there any way to find out now the exact dates for the Spring Open Campus? Is it always the same weekend in April?</p>
<p>Marama, I don’t know what the admissions office would think about dropping the language class, but one thing to consider is if she wants/ needs to take a language class at Wellesley. Last year’s spring open campus site is here: [Spring</a> Open Campus : schedule](<a href=“http://www.wellesley.edu/admission/SOC/schedule.html]Spring”>http://www.wellesley.edu/admission/SOC/schedule.html) I think the best thing to do is contact admissions.</p>
<p>do you know when we get to pick out our first semester courses?</p>
<p>First years pick their classes during orientation.</p>
<p>I have some questions about the dorm rooms:</p>
<p>1) Do all the rooms already have curtain rods and curtains? If not, is there anyone around who can help students put them up?</p>
<p>2) What if one student wants to have a mini-fridge but the other one doesn’t because of the noise of the motor?</p>
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<li><p>I think most (all?) dorms are set up for students to put up curtains if they want as the windows already have curtain rods. I can remember that all the dorms I lived in had them. Someone that’s currently on campus should probably chime in here. You put the curtains up yourself. Or, at least, I never heard of a student having someone else do it for them (like someone from the Facilities dept.).</p></li>
<li><p>You work it out with your roommate. This is called face to face interaction and negotiation. Sorry for the snarky tone, but I think the vast majority of roommate issues are things that you work out yourself with the roommate. From mini fridges to studying time to going to sleep time to morning alarm time, etc. etc. It always surprised me - the number of students who had never shared a room before they came to Wellesley and had no idea of how to go about talking and discussing these things with their roommate. It doesn’t have to be as hard or difficult as you might think. Be reasonable and compromise!</p></li>
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<p>jacinth_ambrose,</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies to my questions. I’m not in the least offended! I was asking of my own accord–not at the behest of of my daughter–while thinking about what I will need to do to get her set up in her dorm room. If the curtain rods are already up, that’s great. We can stand on a desk or something to hang the curtains.</p>
<p>Happily, my daughter is an eminently reasonable young adult, and I’m confident she’ll work things out just fine with her roommate. I know the sound of a fridge motor will probably bug her at night, however, because she has unusually good hearing.</p>
<p>Marama, you might want to think about purchasing some sound-blocking headphones for your D if her hearing is on the sensitive side.</p>
<p>My D is a second-year student - we have not purchased these yet, but I’m thinking about it. She gets along very well with her roommate (randomly assigned together first year, and chose to room together second year) but her roommate lately has begun studying by reading aloud to herself. Her roommate is not aware that she is doing this, and my D has asked her to stop, but she keeps forgetting. She is also an international student and skypes with her parents at odd hours (very late/early) due to the time difference. Although my D has learned some key phrases in a different language! She asked her roommate one day what _________ meant, since she heard her say it a lot, and it means “whatever” (you can add a valley girl accent in a different language)!</p>
<p>college_query,</p>
<p>Wow. Sounds rough. I don’t know how your daughter can stand it.</p>
<p>The problem with electronic noise-cancelling headphones is that they really only block out constant, ongoing noise, such as the steady rumbling of jet engines. I know because I have top-of-the-line Bose ones. Do you know of any other kind of sound-blocking headphones?</p>
<p>To be honest, I wasn’t aware that they even existed until I read about them on College Confidential. We have not investigated them or purchased any, so I don’t know if they would be effective or not. There are several threads where they are discussed; I guess if we’re going to look into it more seriously we will do some research.</p>
<p>I contacted Wellesley’s admission’s office regarding Spring Open Campus. I was told the date for this year’s SOC is April 21-22. Does any current Wellesley student know if a “likely accepted” high school senior can arrange a 2 or 3 day visit prior to SOC (perhaps in March)? I visited the campus this past summer and really loved what I saw. Unfortunately, our tour group did not have the opportunity to see the inside of the dorms, the cafeterias, the classrooms, etc. I love the campus and everything about Wellesley but would like to get a first-hand impression of what the college is like over a 2 or 3 day period (perhaps attend a class, mingle with students, etc) and get a general feel for the campus on a typical weekday and weekend. Can something like this be set up with a current Wellesley student or does it have to go through the college…and is something like this possible?</p>
<p>Thank you for any info you can give me.</p>
<p>I had a roommate who used ear plugs + eye shade. Earplugs seemed to work better for her than noise canceling headphones, because it’s possible to sleep with them in. </p>
<p>My room has a pull down shade. I’ve seen people put curtains around the window shade “frame.” I wouldn’t suggest buying curtains until you have a room assignment. Different rooms and dorms have different sizes/ numbers of windows. </p>
<p>Guitar, you should definitely contact the admissions office to see if you can arrange for an overnight. You are right that it is hard to get a feel for campus at Spring Open Campus, because there are so many other prospective students. If you know a current Wellesley student, you could also make arrangements to stay with her sometime.</p>
<p>Thank you for your input, college_ruled. Your comments reinforced what I was thinking.</p>
<p>I applied early evaluation was just notified a few days ago that I am a “likely” candidate for admission…does this mean that I am definitely in?</p>
<p>Unless you do something really stupid between now and April 1 I would say you’re in like Flynn. Congrats.</p>
<p>Hey there,</p>
<p>I’m just wondering whether or not anyone knows anything about how roommates are matched with one another at Wellesley? Is there a detailed questionnaire (is it just the basics like “do you smoke” and “when do you go to bed,” or does it include other less general questions like “what type of music do you listen to”? Or is it completely random and is there no roommate form at all? Thanks to anyone who can answer this for me!</p>
<p>It is a pretty minimal questionnaire. It asks whether or not you smoke, how messy you are (on a very neat to very disorganized scale), your general sleeping patterns, possibly your guest preferences (can’t remember anymore) and what kind of music you listen to. There is also a spot to request a particular roommate, and if you put down a name and that person puts down your name, you <em>will</em> be matched. So it’s pretty, but not totally, random.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply! Did you try and find a roommate, or were you matched randomly? I know some people use those special sites to search for their roommates, but I don’t know if it’s almost better to just let the housing offices decide for you. Also, just wondering about how local the food is in the dining halls (I know local can mean many things depending on how you want to define it…so I guess I just mean does it serve foods that are available in season from around New England)? Is any of it organic?</p>