<p>It's all about the CuddleDuds ;-)</p>
<p>Oh my goodness, just watched Mona Lisa Smile...ironically, made me want to go to Wellesley even more! :-/</p>
<p>Yale rejectee. (I don't think that's a word, but it's okay.)
Wellesley likely..yay.</p>
<p>I've watched Mona Lisa Smile so many times...</p>
<p>I watched Mona Lisa Smile (again) too just before I applied to Wellesley's EE.
But I still haven't heard back from them yet!!!
I am so nervous.... and extra impatient.
Is there anything I should do right now??
seems like most people have already gotten their evaluation letters.</p>
<p>Watching Mona Lisa Smile when you are at Wellesley is not so good.</p>
<p>You have to remind yourself that it isn't that depressing.</p>
<p>i've watched it like 5 times since this channel keeps replaying it down to the point where i've gotten to individually critique everyone's performance and memorize their lines. maggie gyllenhall is great, julia stiles not so much.</p>
<p>After all this talk about it, I just watched it again and now I'm all excited (whoo!) about going there.... hopefully the school isn't as uber conservative as it used to be.</p>
<p>gosh. it's a MOVIE.. and movies are often NOT TRUE.. you know that ppl.</p>
<p>I agree that maggie is great in this movie. And the only thing that resembles wellesley is the campus, its academic focus, and close teacher student relationships. but not that close. ;) </p>
<p>This site was interesting to read, its about what the current prez thought about the movie. I agree that the movie attracted more students to the college.
<a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/President/Announcements/monalisasmile.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/President/Announcements/monalisasmile.html</a></p>
<p>wildcherry45: Wellesley definitely isn't uber-conservative :)</p>
<p>I feel like Wellesley is WORLDS away from what it was in the 1950s. The women that choose to go there today are more generally more radical and openminded (feminism, environmentalism, minority rights, etc.) than their co-educational counterparts. Somewhere in history, Wellesley experienced a very significant transition from uber-conservatism to liberalism. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, Mona Lisa Smile is an awesome movie with great actors and actresses. Of course, being the nerd I am, Connie and Charlie Stewart were my favorite couple. :-) I want to illicitly run around the Quad at Harvard! </p>
<p>I haven't visited Wellesley's campus yet, so you can imagine my girlish excitement at seeing the chapel and the other gorgeous, castle-like buildings. The traditions were also adorable. I wonder if we will also knock on the door of the church on the first day of the academic year...I'm not sure what this tradition is called, but that would be sweet!</p>
<p>I'm not sure if thats a tradition. </p>
<p>But for hoop rolling, i don't understand how one can keep it rolling for more than 5 seconds with people all around squishing you. I'm so going to lose...</p>
<p>I enjoyed watching the hoop rolling! Do we get to do that too?</p>
<p>ringer05- ::laughs:: Well, that's definitely good to know :)</p>
<p>Hoop rolling looks like fun.. of course, I have next to zero skill in the balance department so I doubt I'll be much competition... </p>
<p>Connie and Charlie were my favorite couple too.. they were both just adorable!</p>
<p>Big teeth, big teeth! hahaha</p>
<p>Coquettish wrote:
{{{{ladylazarus, not necessarily! Wellesley is better academically than both Smith and Barnard. }}}}</p>
<p>The U.S. News process for ranking colleges and universities has been almost universally condemned by specialists as junk science. Publishing a data-rich guide to colleges is a service. What's bogus is the supposed ranking. As any statistician will tell you, you can't reasonably combine entirely unrelated variables (test scores, reputation, placements, spending per student, student aid, etc.) into a single linear index. Worse, the criteria and their weightings are arbitrary. It's hard anough for colleges to come up with financial aid based on need, without a spurious ranking contest creating inducements to subsidize the already privileged.
The data sent by colleges to U.S. News are self-reported and unaudited. Also, many of the factors are entirely subjective to begin with. One dean told me that when she rates reputations of other comparable graduate schools, she hasn't a clue how to rate more than a few. There is also the all-too-human temptation to downgrade the near competition.</p>
<p>Their reported data is wildly inconsistent and is thus highly suspect. When Lee Stetson openly admits that the numbers reported to USNews would not survive scrutiny, the bar is set for the school. FWIW, it is not a surprise that the most challenged rankings are -and rightfully should be- for schools ranked in fourth place in Doctoral Universities and Liberal Arts, or in this case Wellesley and Penn. </p>
<p>Judging from alumnae responses just after Mona Lisa Smile came to theaters, I would say that, far from having come a long way since the 1950's, Wellesley never was like the MLS representation. The movie is fiction, meant to speak about a broader subject than "Wellesley in 50's" ... and that's one of its few saving graces: the film gets a lot of things very wrong about Wellesley :)</p>
<p>(And, no, filing into the Chapel at the opening of classes is not a tradition--but there are similar gatherings, such as Flower Sunday and Convocation.)</p>
<p>Man, I love Wellesley so much...I'm scaring my parents. 40 grand a year will place hefty dents in their wallets, for sure!</p>