<p>That… i must tell you… is an extremely extremely hard decision. A girl in my dorm chose wellesley over brown, but if i had the option i dont know if i would’ve done the same. maybe you should take a look at the course catalog and see which sounds more interesting… and look at the specific departments that you plan on majoring with. departments within each school differ from each other to a great extend. do a little research, imagine where u’d feel most comfortable in for the next 4 years. and also wait until the aid pckage comes, that might also impact your decision.</p>
<p>it’d be nice if u could visit too… i seen swarthmore when i was 8 9 yrs old and theres just alot of green and natural places and feeling to the place… open spaces might be a pain when running b/w places, but prob great for stress relief</p>
<p>i know nothing about brown… didnt think the name was cool so i never even read the stuff they mailed me</p>
<p>man, i just wish i could be accepted by either one of those next year.</p>
<p>There is actually one guy here studying in Swarthmore. I’ll try to get him here for you.
From what I heard, Swarthmore students have very heavy work load(constantly studying during weekdays and half of the time in weekends) while Brown classes are relatively easier.</p>
<p>thanks a lot guys!!
i’m leaning very much toward swarthmore at the moment, mainly because of its tight-knit feel & the beautiful campus. but the legendary workload is, to say the least, a bit scary [i procrastinate so much i don’t even realize when i do it anymore:p]. i’m sure it’ll be good 4 me though hehe…</p>
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lol!!
v. different taste from my mom. her reaction was: “Brown…名字我喜欢。Swarthmore是什么？！”
then i realized another downside was 4 yrs of explaining to relatives and friends-of-parents what an “LAC” is, where on earth swarthmore is etc. O_o</p>
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rockao what i did was ask my teacher to write a recommendation for me directly in Chinese. Then I translated it and got a lawyer [or someone similar, I don’t remember really lol] to check the translation and make it official-ish.
anyway, maybe u would wanna try that. i’m sure it’d be much better than your teacher struggling to write all that’s wonderful about ya in a language they’re relatively uncomfortable with:D</p>
<p>where is swarthmore? its right next to uPenn… i can just hear… o yea she goes to Penn</p>
<p>and LAC, just translate it like los angeles’s yellow pages does… a dedicated undergrad college</p>
<p>friedmoon: I completely understand your situation. I am deciding between Wellesley and Cornell right now, and but most of the reaction I get is like “what is wellesley!?” Personally, I think wellesley will offer me a better undergrad education.</p>
<p>xokandykyssesox, would you share some of your experiences at wellesley? thanks!</p>
<p>ok I know I am so behind the trend but I just want to say i just watched the memoir of geisha. It was so sad, and I liked it. yea, so my point is just that I am very sad right now. I am also listening to 张信哲’s songs, which make me even sadder. and I actually like being this way! heck, what’s wrong with me?</p>
<p>jaz1, ur friends don’t even know wellesley? it seems to be very famous in China. but anyway, it doesn’t matter. I wish I could ever get to choose between two top univs. but, hehe…</p>
<p>Anyone seen Korean drama “Goong/Palace/Princess hour”
Is it interesting/funny/good to watch
What is the “great” drama to watch right now</p>
<p>wellesley… is not what i expected at all. LACs definitely give you a lot of work. I lived on the michigan state campus all four years of highschool, and sometimes even went to some college parties, so I know what the student life is like there, and for them weekend starts on wednesday or thursday, 1/2 the class never attends lectures, but most students cram very well and come exam time everyone studies like crazy. msu itself is a pretty decent public school, not berkely or umich, but i’d say still a top public school. </p>
<p>here in boston, i think the hardest classes are mit classes. people there work insanely hard, sometimes straight 20-hour work days (by work here, it means study). on the other hand, harvard classes are relatively easy. it’s similar to what happens in msu, expect, i’d generalize, that the people on average are smarter and so they cram way better. so like they’d remember much more in only a few hours of studying and still do well. </p>
<p>wellelsey is somewhere in the middle of harvard and mit. people are not as insane as mit, but very very few people party on thursdays and usually they go out only one night a week (fri or sat) and studies the rest. the campus is very quiet during the weekdays, and there’s no crazy parties that calls for ambulences or police cars regularily happening. on rare occasions someone does get hammered with alcohol and get their stomach pumped, but they happen like a few times a year versus probably every week at msu. regardless of how “intelligent”, everyone here works hard. they’re usually ontop of things, like if a paper was due next wednesday and it’s only monday, they might start the planning, do some writing, finish it on the weekend, and revise monday/tuesday night. it’s hard to cram in wellesley just because at least 75% don’t, and even if they are not super harvard geniuses, for example a biology class where they read the chapter 3 times and take notes on them and reviews them, at one point they HAVE to understand. the amount of studying is very insane… breakfast = people sitting alone to themselves with cereal milk and a book… lunch = grab something and run, dinner = usually where people get together and talk for 30 minutes and eat and socialize and then get back to their dorms and study. there is a serious sleep deficit running on campus… but overall it is a very academically oriented school. </p>
<p>social-wise most wellesley girls go off campus (unless u’re a dyke) for parties, unless there is a special event (huge party, like tower court) on campus. at that point, almost every guy from all the surrounding schools make their way into the campus, bus loads of males getting off the exchange bus between boston (harvard mit) and wellesley. the scene is quite amusing</p>
<p>wellesley has a very strong relationship with mit, and we are free to take classes there as we wish. the gpa and courses gets directed calculated into the wellesley gpa, unlike if it was a differet school (olin, harvard, babson… etc) you get a seperate transcript. you are allowed to take at max 2 out of the max 5 per semester classes at mit unless u get special dean permission, but realize that its harder because mit itself the gpa runs on 5 point scale and their overall is lower than wellesley, so a B at mit = 4.0 = gives very good ranking, while to you it shows up as 3.0 and you are ranked among wellesley girls so it might put u in the 50%tile where as in MIT u are in the 75%tile.</p>
<p>yesterday was aprial fool’s day. didn’t realize it until my mom told me today. aww…</p>
<p>Anyone seen Korean drama “Goong/Palace/Princess hour”
Is it interesting/funny/good to watch
What is the “great” drama to watch right now</p>
<p>lol hard to keep up w/ the convo</p>
<p>xokandykyssesox， thanks for all the information. They really helped. Currently, I am leaning toward wellesley unless I get a very generous fin aid package from Cornell.</p>
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<p>O_o lol well that’s unfair! +discouraging. they should change that somehow.</p>
<p>Hey guys.I’m new here. I’m attending high school in Beijing and got into U of Illinois at urbana-champaign. So I’ll be in the US this fall(I’ve never been there yet).
Is there anyone who’s attending/going to the school?</p>
<p>UIUC Engineering seems like where Ill be going right now too lol. Got waitlisted by University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon (damn it). UIUC isnt bad I guess since their engineering department is #4 in the US. However it is like a 1 trick pony which means that if i go there chances are im stuckin engineering for the rest of my life if i decide it isnt for me. Mah still have UMich but i think it is about same as UIUC. Sucks got waitlisted at UChicago my #1 choice.</p>
<p>Also Iv always thought of Wellesley as the college where Harvard and MIT ppl go to find girlfriends lol. Guess that is the wrong impression. My father went to MIT for his phd and somehow got that idea into his head and mine as well.</p>
<p>sup myoo, ur english is really good for sb thats never been in the US</p>