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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than being elite liberal arts colleges in Massachusetts, they don't have a whole lot of similarities. You may want to have a more in-depth conversation about what your daughter really wants before making an ED choice. I preferred Swarthmore and Amherst to Williams based on location and my perception of their campus cultures but didn't seriously consider Wellesley and think I should have based on what I've seen in terms of their alumni support and networking. Ultimately, one year in western Mass ended up being more than enough for me! [/quote]

While I'd agree that Swat and Amherst are more like Wellesley in terms of location and campus culture, I had classmates at Wellesley who had also liked, applied and were admitted to Williams (indeed, most Wellesley students also apply to coed schools, including universities; the one commonality shared by these schools is that they are amongst the most rigorous academic institutions in the U.S.). An intellectually curious, bright, hard-working student whose prospective major is fairly common at schools offering a liberal arts curriculum and who doesn't have strong preferences concerning the most obvious characteristics that distinguish the two schools from one another could be happy on either campus. Deciding whether to ED to Williams or to Wellesley is not the same as choosing whether to ED to Wellesley or to Washington & Lee, a notoriously conservative school with a pre-professional bent where the Confederate flag flew as recently as five years ago and where those who are not white, wealthy, hetero, "Xian" and patriarchally-minded are still routinely shut out from the frats and sororities that dominate the social scene on campus. And to be honest, in a world where a wide swath of the human population lives in a war zone or still doesn't have consistent access to nutritious food, running water or common vaccines, it is nothing less than a luxury to be able to choose a college based upon perceived fit, let alone on account of the kind of minutia that would separate Williams from Wellesley.[/quote]

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