<p>differences? similarities?</p>
<p>If you just look at the Mt. Holyoke board, I'm sure you can gather a lot of comparisons from there, but one major difference between the two is location. Wellesley is located in the suburbs, 45-50 mins away from Boston. Mt. Holyoke is a few hours away from the nearest college town, which, I believe, is Northampton. While Wellesley women have the opportunity to go out into Boston and escape the "Wellesley bubble," Mt. Holyoke women are essentially surrounded by trees and nature. Each college has its own "bubble" and as isolating as it is, I think it fosters freakishly strong bonds and friendships within the bubble. :)</p>
<p>Mt. Holyoke has better horseback riding opportunities. Which is why my roommate's little sister applied ED two years ago.</p>
<p>In response to the location of Mount Holyoke, it is not two hours away from Northhampton. MHC is close to Amherst and Northhampton. The PVT bus takes students between all the five colleges. Each college has its own unique qualities. It is important to chose a college that matches your needs.</p>
<p>Mount Holyoke is not two hours from Northampton lol. As shiblet said, it's pretty close. I have friends who easily go there a few times a week. And although I don't go there as often, I could if I wanted. It's really not that difficult. And, in fact, we are closer to Amherst and Northampton than Wellesley is to Boston.</p>
<p>Both colleges can feel like a bubble at times, but I want to clarify that Mount Holyoke is incredibly close (like 10-15 minutes) to Hampshire College, and less than 25 minutes from Amherst College and UMass. And all of the campuses in the consortium have events going on all the time. You couldn't attend everything awesome even if you wanted. </p>
<p>We also have a lot of cute things nearby. We have some really nice music venues, a theatre across the street that plays a few movies and does Rocky Horror every Saturday (really fun!), a 6 Flags pretty close by, etc. We do have some corn fields and farms nearby also, but that just means that you get a mix of environments. If you want to eat homemade ice cream from McCray's farm, or play mini-golf there with the mountains in the background, or climb a big apple tree with your friends, you can. There are opportunities to do things in nature that can be really relaxing. But because we are so close to bigger towns, you can also find great Indian, Thai, Japanese, etc. food, or find great little bookstores (one of the best which is right across the street from us!). A NY Times article written last year said this area "is arguably the most author-saturated, book-cherishing, literature-celebrating place in the nation." So tons of awesome authorspeak here. For example, Stephen King and Richard Russo just spoke on campus a few weeks ago.</p>
<p>Also, there are tons of great places to shop. The area has everything from unique stores in Northampton, to a salvation army, to thrift shops, to the Hampshire and Holyoke malls (the latter which is HUGE, with around 200 stores), to the Village Commons right across the street (which has some doctors offices, chinese food, a really nice restaurant--Food 101, Tailgate Picnic (a sandwich shop/deli type place, but they also sell stuff like gourmet coffee and cereal, etc.), and other stores.</p>
<p>Anyway, there are a bunch of differences, but maybe it would help if you mentioned what you're looking for.</p>
<p>what are the differences in the types of girls that go to each college? like what stereotype is there for mount holyoke and what about for wellesley?</p>
<p>I don't know the stereotype for Mt. Holyoke students...I only kind of know the stereotype for Wellesley, but it changes from day to day or depending on the person.</p>
<p>Wellesley student stereotypes that I have heard from MIT are positive (at least from the guys): intelligent, beautiful, interesting. I've also heard elegent, poised, thanks to Mona Lisa's smile. From Babson guys I have heard that we're all lesbians, or will become lesbians. Wellesley's campus is way too diverse for me to be able to summarize the student body in one word.</p>
<p>I am a current freshman and I am very disappointed in Wellesley. I was accepted at Holyoke and wish I had there instead.</p>
<p>Latinlover, have you considered transferring?</p>
<p>I have applied to transfer from Wellesley to Mount Holyoke. There are many reasons.</p>
<p>MHC is very close to the other four schools that make up the Five College consortium (Smith, Amherst, Hampshire, and UMass). If it takes 25 between any two, you’ve gotten lost or made a stop. It’s a lovely area with lots to do.
It is roughly two hours to Boston; three plus to NYC.
In terms of students, MHC has aggressively recruited internationals, which make up roughly 30% of the student body.
You shouldn’t listen to or worry about stereotypes. You will find all kinds everywhere.<br>
In addition, you will find people at every school who don’t like where they are. That doesn’t mean they made the wrong decision when they were seniors in high school. It just means that, for whatever reason, things didn’t work out. It’s not a character flaw on the student’s part and that someone is transferring out is not a reason for someone considering a school not to go there. People transfer regularly.</p>