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Wellesley College was a wonderful institution with very small class sizes (10-30 students per class on average). You really get to know your professors well, and the liberal arts environment means that you can experiment with what classes you want to take. I went into Wellesley determined to be an English major and was very averse to STEM; I left a Computer Science major having done three summer internships and studied abroad at the University of Oxford in the UK. Coming from California, Boston was already... Read More a huge leap across the country and adjusting my first year at Wellesley was extremely difficult, but there are so many wonderful resources and peers there that make Wellesley special. I absolutely don't regret going, as otherwise I wouldn't have ever realized my love for the technology field (I'm even doing a graduate degree in Computer Science now!), and it was thanks to Wellesley that I got amazing summer opportunities such as interning at Lenovo in Shanghai and for the NSF in Germany. In essence, Wellesley is a beautiful campus with unparalleled resources and plenty of chances to figure out what it is you want to do in life.

Everywhere I looked during undergrad, I was met with powerful, driven women. Known as the Wellesley Effect, its capped by our motto, Not to be ministered unto, but to minister, emphasizing our ability to use our education to challenge authority and promote change. It is at Wellesley that I dismissed the shaking fear of judgement that barred me from asking questions in the past. There, I became confident in my ability to think and speak critically, priming me to be a leader ready to stand up for the causes... Read More I care about. In the classroom, Wellesley's professors are focused primarily on providing quality education rather than on research as is the case in many large research institutions. Their hard work and investment of time into preparing their lectures renders the liberal arts experience unique and refreshing. Furthermore, outside of the classroom, Wellesley has a plethora of extracurricular activities spanning all interests and talents. It's a fountain of opportunity that, though competitive, never stops giving; for instance, our close ties to Boston and Cambridge allow students to easily escape from the suburbs into the cities.