Why choose wellesley

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You will need to answer just six financial questions; it should take about three minutes. The night before, we decided to drive up to Wellesley from our hotel in Lowell, Massachusetts and walk the campus to get a first impression before we were given the Admissions View of the college.

That probably sounds like a very negative reaction to the campus, but I promise it was the good kind of overwhelming. In the morning we went back to Wellesley to walk around some more before my interview, and I remember it was a little chilly and there was mist on the grass and a little bit of fog in the air and I had never seen anything as beautiful as Wellesley in the early morning.

As we sat down in Weaver- the admissions house- to wait for my interview to begin, I was bargaining with myself. As I mentioned before, Wellesley was the fourteenth of fifteen colleges I formally visited; at all of those previous thirteen schools, there were students on campus for the summer that we would run into, but none of them would ever stop to talk to us.

Until Wellesley, that is. My dad and I were wandering around the top floor of Lulu when we ran into Kindred, an English and Creative Writing major who had just graduated from Wellesley that spring.

I had never met this person before, and she had zero reason to be interested in a random seventeen-year-old and her dad wandering around the campus of her alma mater, but she genuinely wanted to know who I was and what brought me to visiting Wellesley.

She was very invested in selling me on Wellesley, because she had loved her four years here so much and wanted me to have a chance to have the same experience. This enthusiasm for Wellesley was shared by my interviewer, the students on the information panel, and my tour guides.

A very fun fact: the moment that finally tipped me over the edge to choosing Wellesley was actually when Tatiana Ivy Moise, former admissions blogger and current Wellesley College Government President, was describing her first year seminar, a class about selfies and the way we perceive ourselves and others.

The day before I visited Wellesley, my dad and I were at a school where their most popular course was a wine tasting class. Does that sound out there and a little fun? When I visited, everyone left their dorm room doors open, Seniors hung out with first-years, lots of people came up to talk to me. The women there were all very different, but they seemed to, for the most part, really get along.

Wellesley women instead spent it hanging out and talking. Some of the seniors were drinking wine, though, which was kind of cool. From what I've gathered, the social scene is there if you want it. If you like parties, you can go to Boston and meet literally thousands of boys. I'm pretty social in the sense that I like to be around people including boys! The idea of separating school and partying really appeals to me. I actually like the dating scene at Wellesley better. I have a friend who goes to a school with about 1, people and has an ex-boyfriend there.

Socially, it gets awkward. With Wellesley, you get a little space. Wellesley's so close to Boston and about a million other colleges, so you can go to the city pretty frequently, and even the town of Wellesley itself isn't off in the boondocks. Obviously, I've never been a student at Wellesley, so I can't verify that my feelings are true. I don't think it's for everyone, but it's a pretty awesome school.

It takes a good hour by bus to get there. So does that mean Wellesley girls don't go to parties at Boston a lot? Then where do you socialize beyond campus? I think it's important to realize that college is what you make of it, so it really depends on the person when it comes to social life I felt too busy with waaay too much to study, and it seemed like hanging out with friends was enough.

Sometimes it's really easy to feel that way, and there are a bunch of people who are like this for their entire 4 years. I was a hardcore science major, and I think I used that as an excuse to say that I was too busy to go out. It was suffocating, and mental health was of huge concern.