<p>Wow… that new news is a big deal. It makes the Wellesley/ROTC plan sound a lot more feasible. Good luck to you daughter!</p>
<p>SUPER GREAT DEAL!!! Sounds like everything is coming together nicely!!!</p>
<p>That is great. I do agree it’s not as easy to get to Boston / Cambridge as they act. Best of luck and she can look up my daughter next year if she wants another Midwesterner!</p>
<p>Great news! I’m glad she found a way to attend that you all are comfortable with.</p>
<p>OP, I suggest you get that “No required PT commitment at MIT” verbal committment in writing. Good luck to your daughter. It seems its a win-win for all involved.</p>
<p>PT is a very integral/intense part of ROTC. Rigorous is a mild term. That kind of training is necessary to make it in the military. S1 says college was a piece of cake in comparison to the schools he had to complete in the Navy.</p>
<p>Wonder if there will there be some sort of oversight for the Wellesley girls to keep them on track?</p>
<p>It’s not as though they’ve just introduced the program. They’ve done this for years. I’m sure they know what they are doing.</p>
<p>When I was at W, I found it very easy to get in and out of Cambridge at will via the free buses, and the public transportation link was pretty much useless at that time. I gather it is better now.</p>
<p>Admittedly, I wasn’t on a set schedule involving a class or PT in the early AM. 
Sounds like a car is a good idea for something like ROTC. But given the amount of money you are saving in tuition, buying and running a modest car is minor.</p>
<p>I agree with PG: they have apparently been running this program for years, and presumably know what they are doing. If the W grads were washing out in droves because they weren’t fit enough, I think the ROTC people would have done something about it. I doubt they want to waste the money.</p>
<p>FYI, you can rent zipcars at Wellesley. (The founder of zipcar is a Wellesley grad.)</p>
<p>Great outcome all around! OP- you have two very accomplished D’s and you have a lot to be proud of!!!</p>
<p>Older cadets can readily lead the Wellesley group in PT workouts, similar to the way athletic team captains typically lead their team in warmups and calisthenics. In ROTC, there are built-in check-points for the cadets on scholarship, because they have to pass phyiscal fitness tests in order to activate the money. So, it makes a lot of sense for the Wellesley cadets to do PT on their own campus. That extra commuting time would contribute nothing to their professional development.</p>
<p>And, may I add, Wellesley women do not need a guy to take charge of them and make them perform. :D</p>
<p>Ha ha. We were at W this past weekend and as we pulled up to D’s dorm, there was a girl there who needed to have her car jumped. We joked that we probably shouldn’t have my H be the one to ask if she needed help, because no W woman needs a man to do these things :-). (Though neither my D and I would know what to do. Oh well. We’re stereotypical.) As it turned out, the girl knew more about jumping a car than my H did. We do often joke, politically incorrectly, about “oh, honey, you need a man to take care of this for you.” When D had to drag boxes back and forth from the student center to her dorm, she did wish she had attended a co-ed college!</p>
<p>Students (male or female) driving clunkers often get quite good at battery jumping. I recently had a 20-something gal approach me at the ski center parking lot asking for a jump. She said, “I have cables and know what is needed. We just need a car with a good battery”. (I know how too from the old days, when Dad drove clunkers. But I never liked it.) When DH arrived a few minutes later, I checked on her… and another driver had already helped.</p>
<p>LOL…at one point soon after separating from my kids’ dad I drove an ancient Honda with electrical issues…both of my kids knew jump a car then, D was like 9 years old and an expert :)</p>
<p>PG: what year is your daughter at Wellesley? What is her major? Your daughter should friend my daughter on Facebook. Thank you to everyone for your nice comments. She hasn’t signed anything yet, so we will see, but this is looking good. I think she is also trying to get in touch with Air Force re: ROTC with them, as well. I just burned up my cables because I did it wrong. I used to know how to do it, but “forgot.” I need a Wellesley girl to help me!</p>
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<p>Careful. Calling Wellesley students “girls” are considered “fighting words” by some W students/alums…whether they’re being labeled as such themselves or fellow W alums. </p>
<p>This is particularly perilous for anyone with a Y chromosome like yours truly. </p>
<p>And yes, I do speak from some firsthand experience and am grateful for having the ability to laugh off being yelled at and decent ability at dodging thrown objects and fists/kicks from growing up in the NYC of the 1980’s. :D</p>
<p>My D is a rising junior, as is fendrock’s D. She is an Econ major. PM me privately.</p>
<p>Pizza Girl: how do I start a PM? I can’t see how to do that.</p>
<p>Click on my name and in the drop down menu, you should see an option to private-message me.</p>