<p>On timing to MIT: right, so at the minimum, you can't schedule a class at Wellesley in a time block on either side of an MIT class. Given schedules for preferred professors, required or desired or pre-requisite classes, it's a non-trivial decision.</p>
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regarding guys from MIT, there's a t-shirt that says about MIT guys, "The odds are good but the goods are odd."
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<p>HAHA, that's great!</p>
<p>... wait a minute, why am I on the Wellesley board?</p>
<p>You want to cross register at Wellesley?<br>
Trying to figure out where you could get a nature fix during the dark dull days in Cambridge's Industrial Wasteland?</p>
<p>Suggestion to help sell your parents on Wellesley (or any all women's college) ... at least this works on the east coast. Ask you parents for a list of women they are impressed with ... could be national figures like Hillary Clinton or local friends / aquantecences ... and then check where they went to school as undergrads. When my wife and I have done this grads of women's colleges are so incredibly overepresented among these women it is amazing. Whatever logical argument I might make for or against single sex education it's awlful hard to argue with the results ... a ton of their grads turn out to great (and I don't necessarily mean Secretay of State but also, for example, the really cool competent Mom of your friend)</p>
<p>It was first the current students and then the alumnae of the women's colleges that really made me sit up and pay attention. What an impressive bunch. Yeah, sometimes I'll snark on Wellesley or Barnard or MHC for one thing or another but if anyone attacks women's colleges then it's man the collective barricades.</p>
<p>(WM: I'd never thought of it before but Smith & Wellesley are a bit like the Cabots and the Lodges if you know the old joke. Right part of the country at any rate. D's new roommate is a recent Wellesley grad, fwiw.)</p>
<p>TheDad, I'm intrigued by what you said. Do you mean that a student might have coordinate her class schedules according to her social plans? Did you have personal experiences with that situation?</p>
<p>Students do coordinate their class schedules according to a number of factors including social plans, desire not to get up early, or conflict with something else they really want to do during the day (PE, a job, etc). Generally, when picking classes, I blocked off the required ones, looked up the times for the interesting ones, and added those if they worked, then finally, filled off my schedule with what worked in available time slots.</p>
<p>Ahhh, I see. I guess that'll happen in most schools anyways.
WendyMouse do you know people who take classes at MIT, Harvard, etc.? I was wondering if the commuting between school takes up a lot of time or if it's inconvenient.</p>
<p>Wellesley students can't take classes at Harvard, but I know plenty of students who take classes at MIT. The commute does take up a lot of time, but given the expense involved, a bus that runs every hour from morning until late at night is a pretty sweet deal. Whether you think it's inconvenient depends on how much you've ever had to commute to anywhere. Wellesley and MIT do not make their class meetings match, so you have to schedule your Wellesley classes around your MIT class (basically have mornings or afternoons reserved for one school). Since Olin College has more students cross-register at Wellesley, their days match more.</p>
<p>I know many students who never took a class at MIT for one reason or another: I wasn't sure if it was time, laziness or just being perfectly happy with the options at Wellesley. I only cross-registered/commuted once myself, but I can say with absolute certainty that I would not have otherwise gone to grad school at MIT.</p>