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[quote=Anonymous]A student who is academically focused at either Williams or Wellesley will receive an excellent education. I do think, however, that the intensification of misogyny in the U.S., particularly as reflected by the recent overturning of R v W, means that women will be more empowered by attending a single-sex college than they will by attending a coed one, all else being equal. The student bodies at the two schools are roughly on par with one another:

Acceptance rate for the class of 2026:
Williams:    8%
Wellesley: 13%

Verbal SAT 25-75% ranges for the Class of 2025:
Williams:         720-770
Wellesley:        710-760

The overall discrepancy is mostly due to the well-documented gap on the math SAT section between the highest scoring boys and the highest scoring girls.

In response to an earlier poster who claimed that Wellesley attracts students from super wealthy *conservative* families, this statement is wrong: Wellesley's student body is overall quite liberal. 
Also, I echo the poster who said that what other people think is not, in this context, a compelling reason to choose a college. If possible, the OP's daughter should visit both campuses to get a sense of where she would feel more at home for four years, but assuming that both schools offer one's intended major(s) and the projected debt load for both schools is comparable, one cannot go wrong in applying ED at either school. [/quote]

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