Wellesley is great! I also loved visiting Smith, which has a beautiful campus in an awesome college town.
Women's colleges have strong alumni networks in my experience too.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s radically left and woke. The town is boring. It’s an extremely non traditional college experience.

Basically this. My kid is fairly liberal, but even so going to a college dominated by political activism holds zero appeal.

Honestly the kids are young and want to have fun.

Almost all the top SLACs have woke activism... Wellesley's peers (WASP, Barnard, Bowdoin, etc.) certainly do.

Anonymous wrote:It’s radically left and woke. The town is boring. It’s an extremely non traditional college experience.

Basically this. My kid is fairly liberal, but even so going to a college dominated by political activism holds zero appeal.

Honestly the kids are young and want to have fun.

Anonymous wrote:We visited, and I found the campus stunning (beautiful old buildings up on a hill overlooking a lake, and yet, a 25 minute ride and your in Boston). Definitely not an urban campus, which is why our dd also ruled out Tufts. Whatever - she wanted urban and is at another Boston school right in the city

Emerson?

Anonymous wrote:We are fed pro-diversity views & images 24/7. Maybe some people actually believe all this diversity hype, & think you need all kinds of people around you to have a well-rounded education?

So, the Russian (or Chinese? Or Republican?) bot goofed.

We visited, and I found the campus stunning (beautiful old buildings up on a hill overlooking a lake, and yet, a 25 minute ride and your in Boston). Definitely not an urban campus, which is why our dd also ruled out Tufts. Whatever - she wanted urban and is at another Boston school right in the city

Anonymous wrote:I will be blunt. My girls are not gay and want to be around guys so they will not look at AWC.

My wife (gay) went, so it was fine for dating prospects. She has other complaints - frequently says it's where fun goes to die. She was telling me just last night that her and a straight college friend were talking about their college experiences. The straight friend regretted going, not having men around in college and then spending her 20s frantically chasing after men (her description).

Anonymous wrote:Wellesley consistently ranks in the top 5 among the US News LAC rankings but I hear about it for less than the others.

It seems like a great school- urban location, access to MIT/Olin/Babson, tons of opportunites, great alumnae network. I understand that being a women's college means less interest but it still receives roughly 75% of the applications of similarly ranked coed school.

You don’t hear about it bc it’s a self selecting school. People that want to apply there are super interested. Women that went there are secure and don’t need to constantly boost the school on dcum.

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Anonymous wrote:We did the self-guided tour with DD two years ago. The students appeared to be very serious, no smiles or laughter. This alone made DD cross it off the list. We couldn’t convince her the prestige factor outweighed the dreariness.

it is very demanding academically. people there actually cross-enroll at mit to boost their grades.

And they’re dating opportunities.

Dating opportunities are lacking at many coed schools these days, with many uo to 3/4 female. See Tulane.

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Anonymous wrote:We did the self-guided tour with DD two years ago. The students appeared to be very serious, no smiles or laughter. This alone made DD cross it off the list. We couldn’t convince her the prestige factor outweighed the dreariness.

it is very demanding academically. people there actually cross-enroll at mit to boost their grades.

And their dating opportunities.

not too much these days

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Anonymous wrote:We did the self-guided tour with DD two years ago. The students appeared to be very serious, no smiles or laughter. This alone made DD cross it off the list. We couldn’t convince her the prestige factor outweighed the dreariness.

it is very demanding academically. people there actually cross-enroll at mit to boost their grades.

And their dating opportunities.

It’s radically left and woke. The town is boring. It’s an extremely non traditional college experience.

Anonymous wrote:We are fed pro-diversity views & images 24/7. Maybe some people actually believe all this diversity hype, & think you need all kinds of people around you to have a well-rounded education?

This was an interesting article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/magazine/when-women-become-men-at-wellesley-college.html

It’s not on my kid’s radar because it’s too small and not enough sports/spirit. Student body a little intense/quirky? It’s not for everyone .

Anonymous wrote:We did the self-guided tour with DD two years ago. The students appeared to be very serious, no smiles or laughter. This alone made DD cross it off the list. We couldn’t convince her the prestige factor outweighed the dreariness.

it is very demanding academically. people there actually cross-enroll at mit to boost their grades.