<p>Anything I shouldn't miss?</p>
<p>I'm definitely excited to take a tour of this awesome school!</p>
<p>Hey- I'm visiting Wellesley next week too!!!</p>
<p>The campus is amazingly beautiful. If it's an admission office tour, you'll visit all the best spots (like the new campus center and library -- I LOVE the library!). Take a few minutes extra and walk down by the lake -- one of my favorite spots. Have a great time. Wish I could be there too.</p>
<p>Depends what you are interested in. If you like music or art, try to get into Jewitt, if you do drama, try Alumnae or take a walk to the Shakespeare house (which you won't be able to get inside). Walk around the lake or visit the arboretum if you like nature and pretty places. I believe the Greenhouses are open 365 days a year. If you are an athlete, go to the sports center and take the hike out to the athletic fields.
While the campus isn't oppressively large for students, trying to walk around the whole thing in a one hour doesn't happen, the tour sticks to things in the middle of campus- Clapp library, academic quad, science center, campus center and a dorm(?). The campus is full of little nooks and surprises, which aren't something you take a tour to find, but rather discover on your own little by little. I could make WendyMouse's list of benches in lovely places and cute inside jokes at Wellesley, but it's a rather long and boring list and the destinations are little more than tourist traps. If you do decide to walk only partway around the lake, go around the side that the boathouse is on, and go at least past the athletic fields before you turn around.
Don't expect to see much student life- the summer programs are ending, and the students who will assist with orientation won't arrive until next week.</p>
<p>We'll be visiting in two weeks and the admissions office scheduled her for an informtion session, tour, lunchand an interview. This will be her first...anywhere. Any idea what the interview process is like? Materials she should have with her? Is it mostly informative for the prospective student or taken as evaluative for admissions purposes? She's mostly interested in art and theater but she's an excellent writer and very strong in history. She's visiting to see if the idea of a all-female school is everything the College purports it to be. </p>
<p>Any theater/music theater contacts or information are certainly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>I brought nothing with me to my Wellesley interview, six years ago. I took it as a chance to talk to someone in the college and ask a few questions ... and that was it. It wasn't particularly formal. Since the interview isn't required for admission and since not all applicants have the ability to interview, I don't believe it's weighted particularly heavily in the admissions decision.</p>
<p>If your daughter is concerned about bringing extra materials to the interview, have her call the admissions office and ask what they recommend. Supplementary material has a place in the official application, so that's always an option if she chooses not to discuss it with the interviewer.</p>
<p>If your daughter interested in contacting any faculty in the theater program, the college's website is her best bet! She should be able to find contact information; if not, she should ask the admissions officer if s/he can put her in touch with either a faculty member or a student. </p>
<p>Best of luck to your daughter!</p>
<p>Thanks! She'll supply the supplements with her application, of course—if she chooses to pursue Wellesley after this visit. When I took her older sister on a similar trip a few years ago, the school told her to bring nothing. The interviewer turned out to be dean of the art school and asked to see her portfolio. Proud Dad that I am, I had shots I'd taken of her work, and printed on my photo printer, in my pocket. She got in, early notification without applying for it, with an offer of a named scholarship. So I know it helps to be prepared and that the folks on the other end of the phone don't always know what they're talking about. That's why dads ask these apparently dumb questions. In some cases we've been there, done that and can't expect our kids to anticipate every eventuality. This stuff is stressful enough for them and I'm happy they just remember to pack shoes.</p>
<p>Shoes are excellent things to remember :-) On the whole, it can't hurt to bring supplementary materials along, just in case, but bringing only oneself is also great. Your daughter is interviewing the school just as much as the admissions officer is interviewing her, so this might be the only time for her to ask questions that she can't ask anywhere else.</p>
<p>I highly recommend getting in touch with someone from the theater program and also someone in the Shakespeare Society (look through the listing of student orgs on the Wellesley website to find contact info, or talk to admissions). The two groups do overlap, in many cases, and they reside in parts of the campus that the tour won't cover.</p>
<p>Wellesley is extremely beautiful. I had the pleasure of touring the campus during the wintertime. The snow and the frozen lake were breathtaking. Dorms weren't quite as enchanting :D But the library and student center were the best I'd ever seen. The student center is a don't-miss. Eat there, admire the beautiful high ceilings and windows, it's perfect.</p>