Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 01:44     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:From another post, but why is it that Wellesley is so underrated nationally? It has a direct relationship with MIT, has just as high of an endowment as WASP, and is always ranked right under WASP. Why isn’t it more respected?


Social engineering. Wellesley and Middlebury were 3rd and 4th in the last USNWR ranking before economic and social mobility factors were added at the expense of selectivity and class size. Excellence was dropped in favor of things which aren’t related to quality.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:45     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Because even as a women’s college it ranks in feeders for law school, business school, and med school (adjusted for undergrad enrollment). My DD goes to Wellesley and although the social scene isn’t the best, she loves it. It’s very academic. The kids are studying all the time. She complains a bit how rigorous it is. Wellesley only recently took away their grade deflation policy. But, it still lingers with many professors and subjects. She told me that her dean said a B at Wellesley is an A elsewhere. She says the student body is very ambitious. (Most) Professors are great. She’s made good friends in her first semester. Not a perfect school by any means. Also, some of the girls either party on campus and bring their MIT/Harvard boyfriends or go to MIT/Harvard/Olin/Babson/BU for parties.

Their freshman retention rate doesn’t seem to be the greatest and match other LACs. About 90-93%. So 10% of freshman leave or transfer. It is a specific environment for a specific group of people.

Medical school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school

Law school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-law-school

Business school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-business-school


The deans at Wellesley went to low class schools like UMass Dartmouth and UVM, so their point of view isn’t the most intellectual.


I appreciate you ignoring everything I said to focus on a point that does not matter in the grand scheme of things! DCUM you never fail to disappoint.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:44     Subject: Re:Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:I think the question is framed wrong. Why is WASP so highly overrated on this forum when they don’t indicate any substantial difference in outcomes compared to many “lesser” peers in the t20. There’s an outcome difference going to Yale over Notre Dame or Rice. You frankly may have a better outcome going to Middlebury or CMC or Davidson over Swarthmore.

+1, such an underrated point. There’s so many better outcome LACs than WASP, but they get all the cache for whatever reason. People are too obsessed with acceptance rates to understand the quality of the non-WASP LACs, so all the other schools get dunked on. For some reason, people here love Davidson though
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:41     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:From another post, but why is it that Wellesley is so underrated nationally? It has a direct relationship with MIT, has just as high of an endowment as WASP, and is always ranked right under WASP. Why isn’t it more respected?
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Incredibly hard to be admitted. My DD was being recruited as an athlete and she was on the cusp of the "normal" applicant admits. There was no wiggle room -NONE- and so DD withdrew as she did not think she'd get the required SAT and she had a single B on her record at that time. They make no allowances, which is FINE, and the requirements are tall. And for the right kid, the Wellesley experience is an amazing one. I think my DD would have loved it, if it had worked out.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:40     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:Because even as a women’s college it ranks in feeders for law school, business school, and med school (adjusted for undergrad enrollment). My DD goes to Wellesley and although the social scene isn’t the best, she loves it. It’s very academic. The kids are studying all the time. She complains a bit how rigorous it is. Wellesley only recently took away their grade deflation policy. But, it still lingers with many professors and subjects. She told me that her dean said a B at Wellesley is an A elsewhere. She says the student body is very ambitious. (Most) Professors are great. She’s made good friends in her first semester. Not a perfect school by any means. Also, some of the girls either party on campus and bring their MIT/Harvard boyfriends or go to MIT/Harvard/Olin/Babson/BU for parties.

Their freshman retention rate doesn’t seem to be the greatest and match other LACs. About 90-93%. So 10% of freshman leave or transfer. It is a specific environment for a specific group of people.

Medical school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school

Law school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-law-school

Business school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-business-school


The deans at Wellesley went to low class schools like UMass Dartmouth and UVM, so their point of view isn’t the most intellectual.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:37     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Very high, and if they aren’t going in they are coming out.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:36     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Because even as a women’s college it ranks in feeders for law school, business school, and med school (adjusted for undergrad enrollment). My DD goes to Wellesley and although the social scene isn’t the best, she loves it. It’s very academic. The kids are studying all the time. She complains a bit how rigorous it is. Wellesley only recently took away their grade deflation policy. But, it still lingers with many professors and subjects. She told me that her dean said a B at Wellesley is an A elsewhere. She says the student body is very ambitious. (Most) Professors are great. She’s made good friends in her first semester. Not a perfect school by any means. Also, some of the girls either party on campus and bring their MIT/Harvard boyfriends or go to MIT/Harvard/Olin/Babson/BU for parties.

Their freshman retention rate doesn’t seem to be the greatest and match other LACs. About 90-93%. So 10% of freshman leave or transfer. It is a specific environment for a specific group of people.

Medical school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-medical-school

Law school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-law-school

Business school: https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-business-school

Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:19     Subject: Re:Wellesley underrated?
I think the question is framed wrong. Why is WASP so highly overrated on this forum when they don’t indicate any substantial difference in outcomes compared to many “lesser” peers in the t20. There’s an outcome difference going to Yale over Notre Dame or Rice. You frankly may have a better outcome going to Middlebury or CMC or Davidson over Swarthmore.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:13     Subject: Re:Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:Wellesley is an exceptional school with exceptional women. It is selective, it has had below a 15% acceptance rate for a while now. Again, one of the reasons it is not talked about much here is that it is not an option for half of the posters. It has great placements for grad school in many fields. The sciences are becoming stronger, they have newly renovated dorms - and a plan in place to continue to renovate every year through 20240 - and will have a new library this fall.


2040* apologies.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:13     Subject: Re:Wellesley underrated?
Wellesley is an exceptional school with exceptional women. It is selective, it has had below a 15% acceptance rate for a while now. Again, one of the reasons it is not talked about much here is that it is not an option for half of the posters. It has great placements for grad school in many fields. The sciences are becoming stronger, they have newly renovated dorms - and a plan in place to continue to renovate every year through 20240 - and will have a new library this fall.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:08     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Over proportional 35%

Ahhh spooky. Gonna turn your straight daughter gay. Homophobic freaks.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 17:05     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Over proportional 35%
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 16:57     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
It’s not underrated. People don’t talk about it as much because it is a women’s college which means a portion of the general academically inclined population would not apply, and of the population who could apply, many would prefer a different environment.

I’d imagine the education is on par with its peers (Amherst, Swat, Williams, Bowdoin). Scripps is a longer plane flight from the DMV. Williams and Bowdoin are a hike. Swat is probably more of a grind. To each their own.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 16:50     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?

Reported, this is inappropriate and has nothing to do with the conversation.


DP, but I think it is relevant. The social scene at college is a factor in student selection. A women’s college is already a limited social scene. But then factor in a women’s college where a very large percentage, maybe even majority of the women are gay and this makes it even more limiting. That makes their pool of students they attract very small.

Their queer population falls in line with GenZ in general. It’s just parent fear mongering that their little girl will be corrupted by the lesbians at Wellesley and its total bs.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2025 16:48     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?

Reported, this is inappropriate and has nothing to do with the conversation.


DP, but I think it is relevant. The social scene at college is a factor in student selection. A women’s college is already a limited social scene. But then factor in a women’s college where a very large percentage, maybe even majority of the women are gay and this makes it even more limiting. That makes their pool of students they attract very small.