<p>In case you do not know, this is the essay prompt for Why W.</p>
<p>When choosing a college community, you are choosing a place where you believe that you can live, learn, and flourish. Generations of inspiring women have thrived in the Wellesley community, and we want to know what aspects of this community inspire you to consider Wellesley. We know that there are more than 100 reasons to choose Wellesley, but the ""Wellesley 100"" is a good place to start. Visit the Wellesley 100 (<a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/admission/100">http://www.wellesley.edu/admission/100</a>) and let us know, in two well-developed paragraphs, which two items most attract, inspire, or energize you and why. (p.s. “Why” matters to us.)
Hint: A .pdf file under 500 KB in size will be accepted.</p>
<p>I mainly broadly talked about academics in my first paragraph and I found it difficult to match a particular item in Wellesley 100 with my paragraph (I talked about curriculum, majors, LAC, etc. all the things). And I feel all the parts are important for my essay development. So will it hurt my application if I do not point out explicitly what item in Wellesley 100 I am talking about?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’ll hurt you to the point where they’ll straight-up reject you, but you should definitely directly clarify what you’re trying to talk about. Would #53 (the curriculum) be able to describe what you’re talking about? I don’t think your entire paragraph have to be 100% about the item, but it should be focused on it (if that makes any sense…). Like the curriculum has connections to majors, the LAC aspect of Wellesley, and etc.! </p>
<p>I didn’t I just made it explicity clear in the topic sentence/ thesis/ whatever you want to term it that I loved the Wellesley Centers for Women (what I wrote mine about)</p>
<p>blimey911:
Really thank your advice, they really make sense to me! So I’d better point the item out. But I simultaneously talked about #28 The limitlessness of educational options, #53 the curriculum and #11 majors with approx. equal focuses. Should I point out one item among the three and leave the other two?</p>
<p>doctordebbi:
You also apply this year? I just think there are so many about W I want to write about!</p>
<p>@suhuwi, I went to Discover Wellesley, and the way they discussed the essay was pretty lenient. As long as you get your ideas across, that’s what matters the most. It definitely won’t hurt, however, if you casually reference #2, 33, or so on. I was told that it’s important to show that you can follow directions while also showing creativity and personalization. </p>
<p>@suhuwi I feel like you should do one clear topic just for the sake of following the instructions! But you’ll be able to talk about two items, so you can definitely write about #53 AND #11!! </p>
<p>Was this essay lifted from another application and just slightly styled for us? Does she REALLY want to go to Wellesley? Does she really even know how Wellesley is different from MoHo, Smith, Bryn Mawr? Does she really care about Wellesley?</p>
<p>Do you want to even take a chance that the admissions officers will have even ONE of these questions cross their mind? Show them that you love them by tying your essay directly and obviously to the Wellesley 100! Why take a chance?</p>
<p>^^^All ad comms know that every student writes at least one essay that they re-style for multiple applications. Yes, every school is different, but not in ways an applicant could possibly know in great detail. My daughter applied to four women’s colleges and used a similar essay for all four. She was accepted to all four. She loves Wellesley and can’t imagine being anywhere else, but if she’d gone to, say, Bryn Mawr instead, I think she’d say the same about it. This is not to suggest that Wellesley isn’t special, only that you can’t really know a place until you are there for a while, and once you’ve committed yourself to loving it, that’s what naturally happens.</p>
<p>That said, the application readers do want you to show your writing and critical thinking skills, and the best way to do this is to answer the question that is asked. Don’t be literal, but do be specific. They want to know you’ve given Wellesley some thought. So what if it’s the same thought you gave to MoHo or Smith? ;)</p>
<p>I got accepted ED this year and my essay was more subtle than direct. My two were the Chinatown afterschool program and the traditions but I never really said it that explicitly. Like in my paragraph about traditions I maybe said the word traditions once. I think it’s probably better that you aren’t too literal with the prompt by starting each paragraph with “I love the ____ program because ___.” I think that kind of reads stereotypical freshman 5 paragraph essay. Oh and my essay was incredibly specific in terms of traditions, ones that I don’t think many people know about so I think that helped.</p>
So I’d better point the item out. But I simultaneously talked about