<p>Just curious...what schools are you turning down in order to attend Wellesley?</p>
<p>ooops, sorry about the spelling</p>
<p>colgate and tufts lol</p>
<p>UCLA and UCSD</p>
<p>Brandeis, Bates, Hamilton, Fairfield and Drew.</p>
<p>Mainly Bates and Hamilton :)</p>
<p>ucla, ucsd, scripps college, usc, straight pharm programs</p>
<p>Carleton, NYU, BC, and Case</p>
<p>Really Carleton and NYU</p>
<p>D tuned down Wesleyan, USC, Barnard, Oxy, UCSD, UCD, UCI, Mt. Holyoke ($15K per year scholarship).</p>
<p>SMith , Mt. Holyoke, Brandeis, Boston College, Bentley</p>
<p>Wesleyan, Williams and Manhattanville. W is my lucky letter. ;D Still struggling with the decision to turn down Williams.</p>
<p>advantagious: Just out of curiosity, what are your reasons for choosing Wellesley over Carleton? Carleton is/was my absolute dream school...in fact, I'm just printing off my "let me off the wait list letter" right now for them. I did get into Wellesley, and I'm going there because I don't have any other really good options, but I didn't really like the atmosphere when I went for Open Campus. Maybe there's something bad about Carleton that would make me feel better. Or maybe not.</p>
<p>^ That is, that would make me feel better about going to Wellesley.</p>
<p>TH, from a neutral party, aka Smith parent, Carleton imo is a perfectly fine LAC. Wellesley is among the handful of outstanding ones. Assuming it's a fit for major & interests, etc. The womens colleges are "admissions bargains" that way because they're dealing with only 50 percent of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>Btw, are you the T Hardy that wrote TESS OF THE URBERVILLES et alia? Tomasina writing under a male pseud?</p>
<p>As a transfer student, I'm leaving Colgate and rejecting transfer offers from Rice & Wash U. I haven't heard back from 8 other schools, but any I get in to I'll be turning down to go to Wellesley!!</p>
<p>thardy, there was nothing "wrong" or "bad" about Carleton, I just didn't feel that excited about it overall when I visited for their Accepted Students Days. The people there were great, and I liked the personality of the college--very cool and laid back. However, just walking around campus, I didn't get that special feeling that I got at Wellesley. I think that the campus felt smaller than I would have liked--the buildings are more concentrated than at Wellesley, so the part of the campus that you would walk around on a daily basis is smaller than at Wellesley. The school itself is a bit smaller than Wellesley (400 students), so that <em>may</em> have played a role...it's not a big difference in student body, but since my HS is 3600 students, it might have felt like a bigger deal to me. Also, I really wanted to leave the midwest, so although Carleton is nearly 500 miles from my home, psychologically it wasn't where I really wanted it to be. Plus, since I've lived in the Chicago metropolitan area (aka the sprawl...I don't know where you live, but the Chicagoland area is totally developed--no open space), Northfield feels pretty isolated to me, even though it's actually as close to Minneapolis as I am to Chicago. I really wanted city access, and Boston is more exciting and more accessable to Wellesley than Minneapolis is to Carleton. </p>
<p>Lest you think this was an easy decision for me, you can head on over to the Parents Forum and on the second or third page is the thread where I asked for help deciding--I only made up my mind yesterday. But hey--I won't be taking up a spot at Carleton...maybe you'll get off the waitlist :).</p>
<p>Edit: I remembered some other stuff. I didn't like the dining situation at Carleton--there are only two dining halls, and one is more like a convenience store/snack bar, so really just one main dining hall, which is necessarily relatively large. The food is also pretty mediocre. Wellesley has several dining halls, and they are so pretty and smaller and cozier. The food was way better too. Wellesley's campus is way prettier too, but it's campus is way prettier than just about anyone's, so maybe that's not a fair comparison :).</p>
<p>Haha, no I am not Thomas Hardy, but I guess I'd like to be, so that might have played a role in my subconsciously choosing it as a username that would never reveal to anyone I knew that I had been posting on college forums when I should have been doing interesting and productive things. But maybe there's grounds for a women's studies thesis behind that. </p>
<p>Thanks, advantagious, for explaining. An interesting flip we have here, geo-pschologically (cool new word, eh). For me, it's the Midwestern down-to-earthness about Carleton, or at least I seem to think that exists there, that I'm enamored with. In fact, I would really like to get off of the East Coast (I live in New Jersey), or at least out of that mentality, and there's about nowhere as East Coast as Wellesley (in both good and bad ways). College decisions are maddening. It looks like both the Midwest and here are desirable places to be, maybe just not for 17+ years. </p>
<p>Well hey, since I am probably going to Wellesley (yea, thanks, maybe I will get a spot at Carleton now that you're off the list...tell any of your friends to turn them down too!), maybe we'll bump into each other one day. Hm, maybe we already met at open campus. That'd be weird.</p>
<p>Never mind! I'm now going to Bryn Mawr!!! I visited again and realized that I really love it there. Best wishes at Wellesley</p>
<p>Good, that's great--I'm happy you found a place you were excited about, since you didn't seem that enthused about Wellesley. I just did a drive by, but as I recall, Bryn Mawr also has a very beautiful campus, although quite different than Wellesley's.</p>
<p>Turned down Reed, JHU, Tufts, and WashU</p>