Why wellesley

Wellesley was the fourteenth of fifteen official college visits my dad and I went on; it was also my first college interview, which made me a little more nervous than usual.

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. Those were semesters that I had the hardest and heaviest courseloads, but for some reason I had the best grades ever.

So yeah, you can choose how you want to live your college life. It's just a matter of prioritizing things that are important to you. Not saying all humanity majors are like that, but it is totally possible to party away even at Wellesley. I have to say, the learning environment at Wellesley is something you won't be able to experience in many other places. The entire school is there to cater to your learning needs. It's totally isolated, everyone around you is passionate about learning, and there's like nothing to do other than study on campus!

This passion for learning extends outside the classroom too, so if having a spontaneous round table discussion about world affairs, philosophy, science, etc If you're at all homophobic, it's not for you either. They will meet with you, and several of my professors made themselves physically available late at night the night before exams. They know exactly how you're doing in the class, and if something's off, many will actually seek you out and talk to you to make sure everything's alright.

All of the equipment and research opportunities are there exclusively for the students! Where else are students free to go and play with NMR machines whenever they feel like it? I had friends in other schools that were never even allowed to touch the machines. You don't have to worry about how you look on campus, and you never have immature year old boys ruining the learning environment.

The college's large endowment pays for about a half of it, even for the students paying full tuition. It's not like that at all colleges. All of this extra money goes towards increasing the quality of the students' educational experience. From a science major perspective, I have to say, the quality of the lab courses you get at Wellesley is far superior to most schools simply because Wellesley has so much more money to spend per lab. While students in other schools are only allowed to do really ghetto labs that are more busy work than anything else, Wellesley can afford to provide sophisticated labs that involve experiments that are done out in the research world today.

That can get old really fast If you're someone who's lived out in the "real world" I can imagine that this might be very grating. But you know what, college IS the time to grow and mature, so I guess there's nothing wrong with that.

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