<p>Speaking as a Smith alum, I can tell you that there are a LOT of “mainstream” women, and while I didn’t visit Wellesley, I think it’s inaccurate to say that students at Bryn Mawr are more mainstream than students at Smith. My first-year roommate looked like she stepped out of a J. Crew catalogue all the time, her favorite music was top 40, and she found plenty of girls that were similar in this respect. If anything, Smith is a huge melting pot, and like many colleges, not as socially stratified as high school, where having a tribe seems more important. You learn to mix with a lot of different people, and you’ll probably also learn that words like “mainstream” can be pretty loaded terms, but also where you students who would describe themselves as “mainstream” will find people like them.</p>