<p>I'm slightly worried that Wellesley has a bit of a pre-professional air to it. In addition to Wellesley, I looked into Reed and UChicago, which seem to have the kind of student body in which I would fit. Can anyone tell me more about this aspect of the school?</p>
<p>In my experience, Wellesley is not as pre professional as people make it out to be. Most of my friends are either in the “I don’t know what I want to do after college” part of their lives or looking at grad schools, with a few interested in med/ law school. There might be more business/ or law interested students in the econ or poli sci departments respectively, but a pre professional track is not shoved down anyone’s throat. </p>
<p>I think Wellesley has no shortage of intelligent/ nerdy/ intellectual women. Those who attend a women’s college are a “self selected” group of people, who choose a college with an “atypical” collegiate social life. </p>
<p>I would recommend paying Wellesley a visit if you can.</p>
<p>I agree with college_ruled, with some caveats/further elaboration. I am one of those people who has no idea what I want to do, and I actually am a dreaded econ major, and I know I’m not the only one (as you can see, I am going to be a senior, so this is not a matter of age). On the other hand, as a person with REALLY no clue and with no job or internship experience, I can’t lie and tell you that I don’t feel freaked out and behind my classmates. To be frank though, I have a <em>very</em> hard time believing that I wouldn’t feel the same way at UChicago (maybe not at Reed, which I think really is quite different from Wellesley). I realize that visiting can be prohibitive, but I really must agree that for myself at least, I had a very good feeling about whether I would be at all happy at a given school or not after a few hours at a school.</p>
<p>^^I still have no idea what I’m going to do with my life, either…Neuroscience major here, gearing up to be a junior, yikes. If anybody has any good ideas, let me know!</p>
<p>At Wellesley I meet people who are like me (go-with-the-flow-I’ll-figure-it-out-along-the-way), and then I meet people who have every step of their lives planned out. It just depends on the crowd you hang out with. Usually a lot of the science majors (Chem/Bio/etc) tend to have their lives more planned out, I would think for medical school application purposes. But a lot just don’t know.</p>
<p>But yes, Wellesley is an intellectual community that has a lot of amazing individuals who are very capable. As for how high strung a Wellesley chick is, depends on the chick.</p>