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...friend at Babson says he’s gone to these nude parties at Wellesley,” says Daniel C. Burke ’08. “He says that the girls there just throw themselves...
Rumors—and a scathing 2001 Rolling Stone article entitled “The Highly Charged Erotic Life of a Wellesley Girl”—paint Wellesley as a school populated by hyper-sexualized, lonely nymphets. Or maybe it’s a school filled with aspiring desperate housewives in search of their Harvard hubbies. Or maybe it’s a school of bookworms who would rather focus on academics than waste their time on guys. Or maybe they’re all just lesbians...
...Wellesley students are not all Rapunzels or Gertrude Steins. Wellesley College’s admissions office materials describe its students as having “many backgrounds and experiences” who are “serious, accomplished women who have a strong desire to grow personally...
...sense that its student body is motivated and diverse, the glossy pamphlet is right. While Wellesley students are by no means average, they are, for the most part, normal. Perhaps the only over-arching generalization that can be made is that they all worked hard enough in high school to get into a liberal arts college consistently ranked by US News and World Report as one of the best in the nation. For a one of a kind institution, Wellesley does not seem to be a magnet for only extreme types...
...Rather, Wellesley is a place that allows for extreme circumstances. The absence of males allows for the effects of gender politics to be felt acutely, but more importantly, it allows for the non-traditional development of its students. The “desire to grow personally” may be fulfilled, but the transition from girlhood to womanhood might not be typical or linear for the Wellesleystudent...