<p>have anyone heard of anyone getting into Wellesley through Questbridge?</p>
<p>^^Yup. My friends and next-door neighbors last year where both admitted via Questbridge (waves to them if they are reading this!).</p>
<p>ah, great for them :) Wellesley is ranked #2 amongst the schools i'll be applying to through Questbridge. /fingers crossed!</p>
<p>I go to Wellesley right now and I have to say that honestly ... go google Wellesley College Reviews. Read both the pros/cons CAREFULLY before you commit yourself to this school. I know most of my friends have considered transferring at some point and not that I am discouraging you from applying, just understand that Wellesley is not for everyone.</p>
<p>And while I'm at it, I just want to clarify about the MIT/Wellesley exchange. This used to be one of the reasons why I chose Wellesley but there is something Wellesley fails to tell you. Classes at Wellesley are Monday/Thursday, Tuesday/Friday, Tues/Wed/Fri, .. etc whereas MIT class are Mon/Wed, Tues/Thurs, Mon/Wed/Fri etc so your schedules clash to a point where you can't really take many MIT classes unless they are at night. You are also not allowed to take more than 2 MIT classes per semester which means there is no way of working around the schedule. The exchange bus operates on an hourly schedule and it takes at least 30 minutes to get into Boston; if your class ends at 11 am, you will have to take the 12 pm because you will have missed the 11 am bus.</p>
<p>Still applying for Wellesley ED :) No idea if I can get in. Wellesley should be ok for me since I know what I want to do with my life anyway. Been in enough nurturing schools already and sick of them! I am slightly concerned that the small classes will result in the Professors forcing their opinions onto you, it is this very reason why I do not want to go to my own country's universities. Hope Wellesley Professors are ok with differing viewpoints! Seriously though, I really hope that there is no spoon-feeding of materials, that can kill almost all passion/interest in a subject. As a safeguard (yeah right), I am also applying to U Chicago EA (acceptance rate is comparable to Wellesley...) since it does have a vibrant intellectual community too :)</p>
<p>^^I have not personally heard/read reports of students feeling that their professors were forcing their viewpoints on them. Doesn't mean it never happened, ever, but I really wouldn't worry about that.</p>
<p>I go to Wellesley right now and I have to say that honestly ... go google Wellesley College Reviews. Read both the pros/cons CAREFULLY before you commit yourself to this school. I know most of my friends have considered transferring at some point and not that I am discouraging you from applying, just understand that Wellesley is not for everyone.</p>
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<p>Wellesley is not for everyone, Wellesley is not for everyone! I hear this all the time. Who, then, IS Wellesley for? I want to know if Wellesley is for me. I'm totally flipping inside-out making this decision and I really wish someone would just TELL me if Wellesley is for me!</p>
<p>I'm 16 and graduating high school early. Among many much more important reasons, I'm graduating early because I have a LOT of disdain for the immaturity of some peers. I've often felt alienated in high school for being too bookish and too opinionated. I like to win, but am VERY confident (sometimes to a degree that's offputting), so I don't feel that I NEED to win everything. I like to party [responsibly], and the [responsibly] is the operative word there. I don't do drugs and don't like them, but if someone does drugs and manages to keep his/her life together, I get over it. I love nature. I am tolerant of anyone who is tolerant of me. I'm left-leaning moderate politically. I've THOUGHT Wellesley and a host of other schools were "for me" until someone came along and said "<school name="" here=""> is not for everyone." WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? </school></p>
<p>...at this point I am changing my mind several times a day! It's legitimately painful! Please help meeeee!</p>
<p>I would certainly agree that Wellesley is not for everyone. What should that mean to a perspective student?</p>
<p>It means that you need to go to the college and talk with people and read as much as you can-but in the end you should just go with your gut feeling. If the negative things people can say freak you out too much or you don't like the women there or you just don't feel like you would be happy-then don't go. If you listen to the complaints and praise (considering the bias of both) and go to the campus and feel like you belong and run into like minded students-then please do considering applying and going. </p>
<p>I realize I can't speak for everyone (and there was (thankfully) far less info available to obsess about in my day)-but I went to Wellesley for the first time after a long college trip through the east with my father. There were a lot of schools that I thought I would like better-but they didn't click. But when I finally got to Wellesley, I felt like-okay-now this is a place where I could be happy. When I met Wellesley alums, I thought-gee-I'd really like to be like them. I met students and I thought-okay-I can see myself happy here. So I applied and was accepted and the decision to attend was easy (at first). And then I worried about every possible permutation of diaster possible. And then (most) didn't come to pass. </p>
<p>Don't avoid doing something you think might be what you've always wanted just because you think maybe you'll make a mistake. It would be a far greater mistake to ignore the passion and try to live as safely as possible. If you make a mistake and you misjudged-oh well-admit, transfer and move on. Most people who are happy (at Wellesley or whereever) are able to move on from their mistakes-learn from them and get on with life. </p>
<p>My point is thus-go with your deep down gut feeling. It will tell you what you really want to do. Then do what it tells you to do and get on with your life. If you go to Wellesley and it turns out to be a mistake-fine-but it could also be the start of a great empowered successful life as a Wellesley woman.</p>
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<p>I can't speak for other schools, but the "Wellesley isn't for everyone" phrase is certainly true in the sense that it isn't a right match for all people. This in no way is a poor reflection on you as a prospective student; just that Wellesley - from its academics, to its social scene, to the campus atmosphere, to the mission it promotes, to how the community engages with itself - all together makes for an environment that "clicks" with some, but not with others. It doesn't mean that there aren't people who might initially come to Wellesley not sure about their decision, or maybe ambivalent to the school, or maybe because it was just the "best" school that they got into. And no, not everyone at Wellesley is happy - no school has a 100% satisfaction rate - but I feel that most students I knew and met were happy with their Wellesley experience overall, and that feeling is only intensified whenever I meet other Wellesley alumnae out in the world.</p>
<p>As for who Wellesley IS for: someone who is, at the very least, OK with attending a women's college. Seriously. It might seem like a no brainer, but I think you have to at least not be actively against the idea of attending a single sex school. I came to Wellesley neutral to the idea, and most of the people I knew applied or attended Wellesley with similar notions. However, I came to really appreciate and really love that it was a women's college about half way or so through my first year. Some people have a love-hate relationship with it being a women's college. Some people are ambivalent about it throughout their entire 4 years. Most people I knew, even if they weren't really into the whole single-sex thing coming in, were huge proponents of it by the time graduation rolled around. I know I'm making generalizations and this is just my experience, so keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Also, you need to be able to handle how your social life is going to be at women's college that is in the suburbs of a large college city. Again, it seems pretty obvious, but you really have to be OK with not having a "traditional" college social scene right on campus. Not that you can't have an active social life that involves all genders, but it's not going to be like a co-ed school. And being near Boston isn't a substitute for a co-ed social scene because you have to put more effort to seek that out. Again, only you can decide how important an issue this is for you and how large of a role this will play in your application decision.</p>
<p>Also, you have to be OK with being around women all (most of) the time and all that brings along with it. No, it's not high school redux or the movie Mean Girls on a larger scale, but it does mean that there aren't those types of classroom jokes and goofy-ness that guys can bring to a classroom. It does mean that there can be an incredible support network from your peers, both inside and outside the classroom. And it does mean that you can all sit around a dining table/classroom seminar table/common space and ***** about how freaking ridiculously expensive tampons are and no one bats an eye or makes chauvinistic remarks on "that time of the month." The community of the school can be an incredibly empowering environment, but some students find it too stifling. Again, only you can decide that for yourself.</p>
<p>I highly agree with the advice that rigel123 gives. Try and visit the school if you can. If you can't, try and get in touch with as many current students as possible - from first years all the way through seniors if you can. And try and meet some alumnae, both recent and those who have been away for awhile. See if you can see yourself a part of the community, amongst the students, and really enjoying your time there, as opposed to just going because of X reason.</p>
<p>ayayay, thanks for the advice, folks. I HAVE visited Wellesley, and am schedule for an overnight in October... I love Wellesley and imagine I'd be very happy there, but I also imagine I'd be very happy almost everywhere else I'm applying, so I don't know what to do... I am at a point where I'm changing my mind several times daily, and it really sucks. I've never been do indecisive about anything.</p>
<p>Indecision is perfectly fine. </p>
<p>If you know that you would be happy at a bunch of other schools, then great! There's no one perfect college out there. The fact is that not everyone gets into a school, so putting all your eggs in one basket is a foolish idea. </p>
<p>If your first choice doesn't work out, your second choice won't be a disappointment or a safety or a back up. Just someone else helping you decide between a pillow and soft place.</p>
<p>If you are indecisive about Wellesley, I would swap your app to EE, which is non-binding and give yourself lots of good choices. </p>
<p>Though to respond to your earlier post, I also had a "disdain for the immaturity of my peers". Students making birdcalls in class? In AP Statistics? Yep, that was my highschool. I believe I complained to my interviewer about this, and she assured me that Wellesley students aren't like that. (They aren't. Thank goodness.)</p>
<p>The way you described yourself. I would say that Wellesley WOULD be a good fit for you. Bookish, nerdy, yet confident and willing to party. Opinionated and responsible, but tolerant of others' choices as long as they are responsible.</p>
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