Just wondering. I have a perfect SAT score and 3.9 GPA unweighted. Is it good enough for me?
Is it “good enough” for you? Heavens no. Why, only Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford measure up to your greatness.
Don’t feed the word we can’t say.
Quite prestigious. USNews rankings are not everything, but it is worth noting that in its category, Wellesley is ranked 4th, after Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore. People know those names.
More important, you’d get a great education there.
Then again, can’t you research this yourself? Good schools expect their students to have such skills.
Wellesley is very prestigious. It’s good enough for you.
Are you good enough for them? All we know is your SAT and your GPA. If I had a nickel…
That’s all you got?
Prior to the late 1960s, when the Ivy League colleges began admitting women, Wellesley was considered among the best, if not THE best, women’s colleges. My mother, grandmother, aunt, and two sisters all went there and they would definitely say it’s “good enough for you.” I’m sure some Vassar and Bryn Mawr alumnae will chime in here to belittle it, but it’s a very good college if you want a single-sex liberal arts environment.
I’d be careful there. I had a near-perfect ACT and a 4.0 GPA, but I was waitlisted at Wellesley. I only applied there because my aunt wanted me to and I wasn’t totally sold on the school, which they could tell by my essays. Don’t just assume that your stats are going to get you in. If they don’t like you and don’t think you would fit there, you’re not getting in.
You say in your one other post on CC that your two moms met there–you’re gonna believe the word of total strangers over your parents?
Yes. Wellesley is prestigious.
It sure is but you have to decide whether the single sex model in college is still relevant. Personally, I think it sends the wrong message these days. Whether companies or graduate schools feel that way I don’t know. I am a strong believer in single sex schools in high school though. Years back we had several bright girls intern from all female colleges and we found them I’ll equipped socially and rather cynical and arrogant.
This is a fun thread (and check out @Dunboyne’s post on the OP’s other thread). I’m trying to picture it now: how do you not know how the college your parents went to stacks up? What sort of stories has the OP heard about mom’s college days that makes them doubt the caliber of their school? What do you suppose the OP’s mom’s would have to say about this question?! Does the OP think that s/he is so much better than the parents? I can hardly wait to see what is waiting in this thread when I check back tomorrow night… don’t let me down cc’ers…
Oh, and @woogzmama , Vassar-ites would not belittle Wellesleyans, but they would argue the toss as to which was the most intellectual in the glory days of the sisterhood 
I am a second year student at Wellesley, and I suppose it is considered to be “prestigious” because my transfer application has already been accepted by two institutions generally thought to be more “prestigious” than Wellesley. But, I’m not looking for “prestige.” I have no interest in attending a school just because it is highly ranked or because other people say that it’s “the best.” I am looking for the school that is best for me, and I suggest you do the same. I totally agree with @cofb2020’s comments, and I would prefer to finish my undergraduate degree at a co-ed institution lest I graduate “ill equipped socially and rather cynical and arrogant.”
You’re welcome – @collegemom3717 – although I fear that perhaps I have just fed a llort.
Thanks, UnhappyWendy
…though I hope that is about to change to HappyWendy
@UnhappyWendy, congratulations on your transfer acceptances. You won’t be a Wendy anymore in any case I genuinely hope you are happy at your new institution and that it provides for you what you feel has been missing from your college experience.
Wellesley is a unique environment and, I suppose, a minority taste. But I don’t think its graduates are “ill equipped socially and rather cynical and arrogant” as a rule. Of course I am biased, being a Wellesley alumna. As for prestige, remember that the word originally meant “showy” and “meretricious” and is associated with deceit/magic shows. I agree with UnhappyWendy that prestige is a poor reason on its own to choose a college.
If you have to ask, the answer is no.
^no. Wellesley college is definitely prestigious. It is not particularly well known outside of the northeast nowadays, however, because fewer and fewer students are interested in all girls schools now. Wellesley was essentially an Ivy League school for girls when the Ivy League was not coed. Now most that the tippy top schools in this country have gone coed, Wellesley and the other seven sisters schools don’t get quite as much attention. That does not mean that they are not prestigious and rigorous institutions. For a school that’s only available to half the population, a 22 ish percent acceptance rate is very, very, very selective.
I think so. One of Seven Sister’s college which Parallel to the ivy league men’s college. Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright also graduated from there, too. Test score is not everything for college prestige but here is Forbes list for colleges with high SAT score. http://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-with-the-highest-sat-scores-2014-8
Post #16, tongue in cheek comment. Of course it’s well known, who wouldn’t know Hillary Clinton went there for undergrad. Only people who have been living in a cave wouldn’t know.
@UnhappyWendy Where are you transferring to? What were your choices? I hope you don’t mind the question–I’ve read a lot of your posts over the last few months and am just curious.