Current Harvard Students, what do you guys think about Wellesley girls?

Colleges & Universities Harvard University
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<p>Wellesley, arguably the best women’s college in the nation—does Harvard (the student body) look down on the institution? What about Harvard women?</p>

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<p>women* lol
Is there a general stereotype around campus?</p>

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<p>helllooooo :p</p>

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<p>Most Harvard undergrads don’t have much of an opinion about the institution. However, the subset of the population that comes to Harvard to party at the final clubs has a pretty negative stereotype of being underdressed and desperate. If Harvard people see a line outside of a final club in January and there are a bunch of women with bare legs shivering in stiletto heels and tiny skirts, a lot of them think, “Wellesley.”</p>

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<p>LOL whoa… I thought wellesley girls were supposed to be classy</p>

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<p>Wow at Hanna’s account. Guess it’s tough being stuck at an all-girls school for most of the year. They gotta let loose sometime, no? ;P</p>

<p>What are final clubs, just curious?</p>

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<p>^^^ Here, I’ll google that for you: [final</a> clubs - Google Search](<a href=“final clubs - Google Search”>final clubs - Google Search)</p>

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<p>Hanna - I was trying to sum up in CC-appropriate language what my Ds have said to me about the visitors from Wellesley, and found that you’d done it perfectly. It would definitely be CC-inappropriate to share the commonly-used nickname for the Wellesley inter-campus shuttle bus, but the Wikipedia entry for “Wellesley College Senate bus” cites it, saying “The term gained national notoriety when it was mentioned in a 2001 Rolling Stone article entitled ‘The Highly Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl,’ which also discussed the supposed sexual eagerness of Wellesley students.”</p>

<p>Obviously, this is an unfair stereotype of the typical Wellesley student - Wellesley is almost without fail listed in ratings among the very top colleges in America - but the thread didn’t ask what Wellesley women are like, it asked what Harvard students tend to think about them.</p>

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<p>Here’s the article gadad mentions. An interesting, albeit sensationalist + outdated read: [The</a> Highly-Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl | Jay Dixit](<a href=“http://jaydixit.com/writing/wellesley.htm]The”>The Highly-Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl - JAY DIXIT)</p>

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<p>^Males can be visiting students for a year? Sign me up.</p>

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<p>Yea, every semester or so there’s a male at Wellesley.
Although a number of classes will have males because of the cross-regis. between schools in the area.</p>

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<p>I remember talking to a wellesley student about that rolling stones article and all they did was laugh at it lol</p>

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<p>I thought it was a joke but there are actually many lesbians at Wellesley. I go to babson.</p>

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<p>The Harvard Hoochies, a group of BU girls who run an amusing Twitter about final clubbing, have influenced the students currently here such that the first thing that jumps into our mind when we see those girls is “BU girls!” not “Wellesley!” (I’ve never seen their Twitter be worse than PG-13, but I hardly ever check it, so no guarantees.) The mental leap to BU rather than Wellesley might be less common among upperclassmen, though.</p>

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<p>ha!</p>

<p>[Harvard</a> Hoochies (harvardhoochies) on Twitter](<a href=“http://twitter.com/harvardhoochies]Harvard”>http://twitter.com/harvardhoochies)</p>

<p>Name Harvard Hoochies
Location Boston, MA
Bio We are BU biddies, hooching and husband hunting at Harvard Final Clubs. We ward off RUHGs (random ugly Harvard girls)…frequently.</p>

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<p>How do people feel about the “harvard hoochies”…(can’t believe such a group exists)</p>

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<p>Crimson article about Wellesley girls:</p>

<p>[The</a> Girls Next Door | FM | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/2/22/the-girls-next-door-what-are/]The”>The Harvard Crimson)</p>

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<p>The trouble is that Harvard students never interact with students from Wellesley or BU except when their girls (or a subset thereof) come to our parties in droves in attempts to pick up Harvard men. I would hope that most students here are conscious of the fact that they are actually, like, really good schools, but that’s definitely not at the forefront of the popular consciousness at Harvard.</p>

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<p>Not necessarily. One of my daughter’s best friends from her four years at Harvard is a Wellesley girl.</p>

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<p>How’d they meet?</p>