<p>hey wellesley girls,
i love wellesley so so so much and i am so excited to visit the college. however, i just found out i was admitted to some other colleges i was really interested in and thought were complete reaches like swat and wesleyan and am now thoroughly muddled and in a state of shock. i still have to hear from some other colleges before April 1. </p>
<p>what about you girls? i know you qualified people have gotten into other great schools so have you guys have had any tough decisions and if so, how do you plan to choose?</p>
<p>Man, I hope I'll have a tough decision :) I've just been accepted to places I'm not that interested in (that my parents made me apply to). Should I be accepted to some of my reaches, I will most probably choose based on financial aid. I'm too fickle to make a genuine decision at any one point in time.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I'm still waiting to hear from Wellesley, but if I get in, I have gotten into a few other schools that have offered me a lot of money. It's actually sort of daunting. It's almost like I'm hoping not to get in somewhere so it makes my decision easier, but not getting in would be horrible, because Wellesley is one of my top choices.</p>
<p>heeheeee. yah, as bad as anxiety from the waiting game is, decisions are, i think, worse.</p>
<p>i applied to some totally random colleges and am freaking out too. i applied to, and got in/got likely letters from wellesley, rice, and U Texas Austin. rejected from MIT, which i was deferred from EA. waiting on some reach ivies.</p>
<p>wellesley was the only LAC i applied to. the smallness really scared me. but i think i'm really starting to appreciate the idea of it. ive visited and all, and the intimacy is nice.</p>
<p>at this point i'm telling myself i'd rather go to wellesley, especially because UT is just WAY too big (like 2nd biggest public u in the country i think?), and Rice kind of a sciency school, or at least not that focused on liberal arts.</p>
<p>since i'm really fickle too, i think i'd go to wellesley just to "explore my options," as the viewbook put it so well.</p>
<p>as for financial aid, most of the schools i'm applying for cover 100% financial need so i figure the numbers will be basically the same. i wouldnt want to make a decision solely on money because i just dont see giving up certain experiences worth it just so i dont have to take out student loans.</p>
<p>I'm still waiting on Wellesley ubt so far I have been accepted to Williams and Syracuse (with a lot of merit money). </p>
<p>Choosing between Wellesley and Williams would be so insanely hard... both amazing schools. My other top choices were Amherst, Yale, BC, and Tufts. I'm not going to make most of my schools but now I'm kind of grateful for that since I absolutely cannot make decisions. </p>
<p>But as I said, I'm still waiting to hear from Wellesley so I'm not going to get ahead of myself. </p>
<p>I think really, I'll be excited and happy no matter where I end up, as will most kids.</p>
<p>I got one of Smith's most prestigious scholarships....and was instantly confused since I hadn't really been considering that school before. Still waiting on Yale and MHC. Decisions are evil.</p>
<p>Right now, I have three acceptances under my belt (yay!) but I'm still waiting on 6 more colleges... If I somehow magically get into all 6 of those colleges, it would just come down to four schools... Wellesley being one of them, of course.</p>
<p>I'm not really worried about it right now. I'll worry about that later, when my decisions actually come.</p>
<p>good advice. i have 5 for 5 right now, waiting on 6 but i think ultimately, it would come down to about four also, wellesley DEFINITELY one of them.</p>
<p>You know what, surprisingly enough- that's true. It's funny because I have people at my school that to put it bluntly... are not very bright and they think they can get into schools like Northwestern and Columbia with 3.2 (weighted) GPAs or 20s on their ACT...</p>
<p>I don't want to sound like an elitist snob but that's just not realistic. And, they're so confident that they'll get in whereas people like me, who are overly paranoid, freak out because honestly, most of the schools we're applying to are extremely hard to get into, no matter how great your scores are. I've said this before, those adcoms at elite schools are a bit kooky when it comes to rejection/acceptances.... </p>
<p>I think it's just being realistic, perhaps a bit too much at times.</p>
<p>yea i definitely agree with you wildcherry and toffee. its better to be a bit overparanoid than to think that you can get in somewhere where you really have no chance at getting in...</p>
<p>Ugh, yeah, I totally agree with you wildcherry45! I have a friend who has a 1400 SAT (on the <em>new</em> scale) and she applied to schools like Carnegie Mellon and NYU. No offense to her (she's a great person), but that is simply denying reality!</p>
<p>Coquettish, I have a friend like yours, too. when she was a sophomore, she said "I'm going to Harvard! you should go there with me and we can be roommates :)"
Although she is a very nice person, I'm sure she didn't know how competitive it is to get into Harvard or she would end up getting 16 on her ACT!</p>
<p>Tokudas, ::cracks up:: I think your friend has a sister at my school because there's this one girl in my english class last year that was convinced she would get into Northwestern and that all her buddies would go and they'd all be able to dorm together and what not.</p>
<p>Errrrrr, no. :) It's just kind of amusing. Is it bad that I find it funny?</p>
<p>I have a really good friend that's applied to a lot of schools that I have and she genuinely has a chance at most of them and she wanted to room with me if we ended up going to the same school... but now that I really think about it, I honestly don't know if I want that. To me, college has always been the next level up in life and my high school experience hasn't exactly been peachy keen- I just want to start new and not really have any ties to my past. </p>
<p>Maybe I'm just being weird, I don't know...</p>
<p>GF of DS got likely letter from Wellesley, Smith STRIDE, also accepted to American, Simmons, Drew, waiting on several others...smart girl, she is</p>
<p>i agree wildcherry. though hs is a place where you may think you might lifelong friends (which you very well may), i believe college is a time for us to branch out and live life a little differently. it's a good time to start anew, and sometimes, well... you don't need your past life tagging along. also, you've been with these ppl for four years... it's time to break away. sometimes if you spend toooo much time with the same ppl, it has the opposite affect, and you start to hate eachother... or at least get on eachother's nerves.</p>
<p>wildcherry, i completely agree. that's part of the reason i'm trekking to the other coast, regardless of which college i choose. i don't want to be rooming with or seeing people i've seen since kindergarten!</p>
<p>we might be a bit too paranoid, but it makes the RELIEF you feel that much more awesome. it's not particularly healthy, but it's better than the alternative.</p>