Anonymous
Post 01/09/2025 12:44     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
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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 wildly disagree with your theory that administrators going to UMass Dartmouth or UVM would be disqualifying. But just factually your point doesn’t make sense: the President of Wellesley went to Harvard.
https://www.wellesley.edu/about-us/president#:~:text=Paula%20A.,public%20health%2C%20and%20higher%20education.

Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 20:15     Subject: Re:Wellesley underrated?
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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:WASP doesn’t actually represent the best lacs. It’s more a catchy name to demonstrate the most prominent examples of LACs. There’s quite a few lacs better than the WASP ones.

Bizarre, yes it does. Pomona and Williams are two schools you specifically cannot find better lacs than. What are you talking about?

I think someone is home from school today and is jerking the chain.

NP but I feel like my chain is being yanked by these other posters. Wellesley is an awesome school.


And very hard to get into.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 19:57     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
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Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Very high, and if they aren’t going in they are coming out.


You can't catch gay, you homophobe.

And this entire discussion about percentage of gay students is gross. Shame on you.


Reasonable question as Wellesley has lots of unwanted sexual advances according to various anonymous internet sources. Smith College had a serious ongoing documented problem in this respect.


I would say both of those have fewer than a co-ed school with advances from men.

+1, I’ll take 20 women hitting on me versus a single man.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 19:49     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Very high, and if they aren’t going in they are coming out.


You can't catch gay, you homophobe.

And this entire discussion about percentage of gay students is gross. Shame on you.


Reasonable question as Wellesley has lots of unwanted sexual advances according to various anonymous internet sources. Smith College had a serious ongoing documented problem in this respect.

The idea of a women’s school was, partly, to not date classmates and have that “distraction.” Now, for “35% of students” (probably well over 60%), that distraction exists; it is relevant for discussion, just as non-dating of classmates as a “perk” of single-sex schools was relevant for discussion a generation (or two, or three) ago…


That is not at all why my student chose a women’s college. She was a STEM major and wanted a supportive environment, not one dominated by men who spoke over her or shut her down. And that’s exactly what she got and it was a fantastic experience.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 19:47     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Very high, and if they aren’t going in they are coming out.


You can't catch gay, you homophobe.

And this entire discussion about percentage of gay students is gross. Shame on you.


Reasonable question as Wellesley has lots of unwanted sexual advances according to various anonymous internet sources. Smith College had a serious ongoing documented problem in this respect.


I would say both of those have fewer than a co-ed school with advances from men.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:27     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
It's hard to compare Wellesley to coed schools. The biggest feature of Wellesley is that it is a womens college. You prefer that or you don't. (Of course if you are male it's not even an option.)

Makes more sense to rank womens colleges separately. Same thing for service academies.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:12     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Very high, and if they aren’t going in they are coming out.


You can't catch gay, you homophobe.

And this entire discussion about percentage of gay students is gross. Shame on you.


Reasonable question as Wellesley has lots of unwanted sexual advances according to various anonymous internet sources. Smith College had a serious ongoing documented problem in this respect.

The idea of a women’s school was, partly, to not date classmates and have that “distraction.” Now, for “35% of students” (probably well over 60%), that distraction exists; it is relevant for discussion, just as non-dating of classmates as a “perk” of single-sex schools was relevant for discussion a generation (or two, or three) ago…
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 16:34     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Very high, and if they aren’t going in they are coming out.


You can't catch gay, you homophobe.

And this entire discussion about percentage of gay students is gross. Shame on you.


Reasonable question as Wellesley has lots of unwanted sexual advances according to various anonymous internet sources. Smith College had a serious ongoing documented problem in this respect.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 16:29     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
DD picked Wellesley over Swarthmore. She has conflicting thoughts on her experience but overall is happy with her choice. Tons at Wellesley turn down AWS (Pomona isn't a common applied to peer school).
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 15:23     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
It is a highly regarded school. No idea why you think it is underrated.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 15:02     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Very high, and if they aren’t going in they are coming out.


You can't catch gay, you homophobe.

And this entire discussion about percentage of gay students is gross. Shame on you.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 06:12     Subject: Re:Wellesley underrated?
Why do people care about the lgbt population at an all women’s college? You’ll have to find a boyfriend off campus anyway.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 06:09     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What percentage lesbian/trans is it?


Over proportional 35%


35%? Hard pass.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 05:52     Subject: Re:Wellesley underrated?
US news before the dumb decision to care about equity only:
  • Williams

  • Amherst

  • Wellesley

  • (tie) Middlebury

  • (tie) Swarthmore

  • Bowdoin

  • (tie) Carleton

  • (tie) Pomona

  • (tie) Claremont McKenna

  • (tie) Davidson
    • Anonymous
    Post 01/08/2025 05:48     Subject: Wellesley underrated?
    Anonymous wrote:
    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.

    But…but! According to DCUM these schools have always been WAY worse than wasp. What an actual joke this forum is.