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Classes at Wellesley are usually small, and contact with faculty members is very extensive. "Participation in classes is crucial--it's not as if you can sit in a large lecture hall and mindlessly take notes for an hour," says junior Jenny Hinshaw. "Classes here are so contained and so one-on-one with the professors, that absences are instantly noticed and frowned upon...
Trippe, who is presently completing her junior year exchange at Williams College, feels that her time away from Wellesley has been enjoyable and beneficial. "There is so much to do and so much going on at Williams--it's a much healthier environment than Wellesley," she says. "The only reason I'd go back next year to Wellesley would be because it is admirable to stick out four years there--it's almost like a prison sentence. If I had the choice again, I wouldn't choose Wellesley...
...Wellesley students are this negative, however. Some women simply accept the isolation and concentrate instead on obtaining the excellent education that Wellesley has to offer--a factor that attracts many students in the first place. Getting admitted to Wellesley is no easy task. 71% of the students ranked in the top tenth of their high school class, and their SAT scores generally fall into the high...
Another positive feature about the stellar academics at Wellesley is the way in which it provides females with role models, and helps women to fully appreciate the worth of their own minds. "In high school it was always the guys who dominated the classes. I used to play down my strengths to fit in--Wellesley helped me to put my feet on the ground," junior Kathy Oglo says, adding, "I take myself more seriously...
Many students also complain that the days tend to blur together because of the redundancy of the daily routine of eat, go to class, study, sleep. "All you do at Wellesley is study--it's taken for granted that you'll be in the library every night and on Sundays," Trippe says. "I thought that the swim team would be an outlet for me, but even with them the big thing is to dress really fast in the locker rooms after meets so that we can get back to the libraries...