<p>I agree that when H students meet BU/Wellesley girls under other circumstances, the interactions are much more positive. My Harvard coed a cappella group sang with an all-female BU group at a festival at a third campus. We had a lot of fun together and a guy from my group dated a BU girl from that group. There was none of the power imbalance or over-eagerness that can color the atmosphere when BU/Wellesley girls come to Harvard parties.</p>
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<p>I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t at a party.</p>
<p>This is a side of Wellesley I knew little about. If you check out the Wellesley threads, the girls seem as accomplished as students accepted to Harvard!
Really, one cannot judge all Wellesley women to be like the ones you find trying to get into Harvard/MIT parties. Wellesley is in fact, reputed to be the most conservative of all the womens colleges with regards to their LGBT community too. Every girl I spoke to who also got accepted into Wellesley came off to be very intellectual and passionate about issues she cared about, and not at all like the ones described in the first article.</p>
<p>^^^ The two are not mutually exclusive. There are plenty of people with a serious intellectual side and a very different personal life. There are lots of different types at Wellesley, and some never go to off-campus parties at all, but it’s also possible that an intellectually passionate (and conservative) woman might shiver outside in stilettos to try to meet a rich man. All those final club guests got into Wellesley for something other than their party-going skills.</p>
<p>Getting into an institution isn’t a stamp of anyone’s character. What I mean to say is that such people exist everywhere, and it isn’t correct to generalize the whole student body by judging the small portion of the student body one sees regularly at Harvard/MIT parties.</p>
<p>A Wellesley girl told me that the general consensus at Wellesley is that Harvard guys who they party with aren’t interested in interacting any further when they make it clear that they’re there just for plain conversation and some harmless fun which is why many girls don’t even bother coming to those parties.</p>
<p>I just think it’s ridiculous to characterize the whole student body of a school that is otherwise excellent based on a minor faction of the student body like that.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, I’m not heading to Wellesley…and am probably heading to Harvard. I’m just asking you to look at it with a fair mind. It’s obvious that most people’s opinion would be based on that highly exaggerated piece of writing that totally distorts the facts.</p>