<p>i lived in an all-girls dorm for two years (i realize this is different from an all-girls campus), but we had a lot of fun. aside from the enormous amount of estrogen, it was good times had by all.</p>
<p>My daughter is "very social" as well. She and her friends have found no problem in finding guys at MIT and Harvard. They often come to Wellesley so it isn't a one way to Boston deal for the women of Wellesley. They also like the idea, if they are covered up with work, to have the option of no distractions of guys right there on campus. One guy from MIT invited her to Boston for lunch on top of the Prudential Building and then to go Whale Watching in Boston Harbor. There have been all kinds of really exciting things to do in the city, not to mention the frat parties at MIT and the other schools. The bus runs directly from the Wellesley campus to the other schools. Relax, Skeptical... if you get in you can make it work.
If you are looking for drunken, wild parties at Wellesley, however, you have choosen the wrong school.</p>
<p>I suggest you try to talk to more students & alums about the social scene there. My daughter slept over there after she was admitted, and that helped finalize her decision.</p>
<p>I'm not as worried about romantic relationships as solid platonic ones. I have an equal number of guy friends as girl friends, and there are times when I get along better with men than women. They have a different outlook towards life and don't nearly sweat the small stuff as much. </p>
<p>I would definitely find it a drawback if I could not, on a regular basis, get intelligent male output and be able to talk of cabbages and kings to a guy. I know that it's not hard to meet guys in the romantic sense of the word, but I'm looking for solid platonic relationships with intelligent guys who I can talk to about everything and anything in particular. </p>
<p>Does Wellesley (not the consortium schools) have this?</p>
<p>thanks for the advice...and i know all that...and no megsdad, "wild, drunken parties" are not my top priority for college (Yale Law School and then clerking for a Supreme Court Justice before joining a Manhattan firm, making tons of money, then using that money to run for political office (Dem of course) are my dreams, so four years of hard work at a top LAC in the country is my top priority). I just love guys. I've talked to a lot of students and actually when I was in Boston for the Dem Convention, I met a Wells girl at a party who assured me that the social life was fine-when I went to visit her in Nov, she proved this to me. A teacher at my school who is Wells '96 met her husband while a student there, so I know it can work-I'm (understandably I hope) just nervous right now. My mom thinks this is me trying to reject the college in case it rejects me...setting myself up so I won't be disappointed. I'm not sure what she's talking about but she's been walking around with books about how to let your kids go to college without tears...perhaps I should pick those up and see what's going on...</p>