<p>I know I know, funny question and will probably get a lot of people on this board wanting to slaughter me. But I mean, come on!<br>
Don't get me wrong here. I LOVE WELLESLEY and it would be an immense honor to go here. It's in my top 5 if not top 3. Everyone has complaints though, and I just want to hear some complaints about it, whether it's as stupid as a lock being broken on a locker all the way to huge administrative glitches (if they even have any...adcom seems to have it down, scarily enough). Still I'd like to hear your side of the story. Vent!</p>
<p>(Hah or EVEN BETTER do you love Wellesley so much that there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with it?) :P</p>
<p>I have heard from a few sources that Wellesley students can be a bit anal and overly competitive. Can any Wellesley students or alumnae comment on this?</p>
<p>There are some what limited science offerings-and in the hard sciences- grad school can be a bit of a shocker. The sciences tend to be geared more towards the pre-meds.</p>
<p>I disagree with the charachterization that Wellesley students tend to be fairly helpful and study in groups. I think they are probably a lot less competitive amongst themselves than students at similar colleges and universities.</p>
<p>the campus at night scares me a little bit. it's like a van gogh nightmare, and gets me paranoid. just the wind whistling through the straw and stuff.</p>
<p>and the fact that everybody is desperate to leave campus on the weekends.</p>
<p>and the fact that it's hard getting down to boston (since the commuter rail is a PAIN), unless you know someone with a car.</p>
<p>To AllureNY86:
Why is the commuter rail annoying? I took it when I visited, and I didn't have any problems. I'm used to the NY subway (I take it to school every day) so maybe comparatively the commuter rail wasn't bad, maybe I was just lucky though. What are the problems with the commuter rail?</p>
<p>the T is diff. from the commuter rail, liana. the T is just basically boston and surrounding areas. but it doesn't take you to wellesley. you have to get on the commuter rail, which are these super-slow versions of trains, and it took me 45 minutes or so getting into wellesley.</p>
<p>tourtoo... it's just realllllllllly slow. i kept seeing cars on the highway adjacent to us, whizzing by and leaving us to bite the dust.</p>
<p>additionally, the timing is horrible. they don't operate very frequently. i think it's only one an hour or two hours, and then on weekends it's even less, and they close early.</p>
<p>lol yeah. the T is convenient around boston, cambridge, brighton, and those areas. then you get out into wellesley, and transportation gets more primitive. i bet pedestrians could pass the commuter rail.</p>
<p>Well, i don't think that leaving campus on weekends is because the social life is really dead. From reading posts off of the wellesley livejournal communities, it seems that most of the past and present wellesley girls highly recommend leaving campus to get a "reality check." I guess that a community as tight and as intellectual stimulating as Wellesley could drive a girl crazy so they suggested leaving campus "at least once a week" to clear your mind, relax, and take a breather from the all-women environment. I mean seriously girls, if I had to be around only girls 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, I might just go a little crazy. :-)</p>
<p>What policy to curb grade inflation? Please tell me it's not another one of those "only X amount can get an A" things. Does it ever occur to schools that perhaps if an entire class does well it could be that the students are motivated and the teachers are doing a good job?!</p>
<p>I don't know a lot about that new policty to curb grade inflation, but I have heard that it is supposed to apply to the Spanish program, among others. Yes, I agree w/ what you said about the whole class doing well, and I think that W would rather see all of their students succeed if they all meet the expectations instead of having "only an X amount can get an A" situation.</p>