<p>@Massmomm Right now, I think I’m still uncertain - even though I have doubts about Wellesley I can very clearly picture myself enjoying that environment. I am very passionate about starting projects and building communities - I think I would definitely have enough drive to push myself into new and different things during the school year, and thus meet new people - I’m certain this would happen at any school, but it might be even more important within Wellesley. On a similar vein I love exploring new environments and would love to see Boston: I’m quite confident in my ability to force myself to leave campus quite often in order to explore the “outside world” more fully. However I’m not sure if this is just my internal rationalization and justification for what I perceive to be Wellesley’s “shortcomings”, or whether this genuinely means Wellesley should be my top choice.</p>
<p>@justdoesntmatter To be blunt again, one of the additional reasons why Wellesley might be a good match for me is because of name prestige - as long as Wellesley pleases my parents I personally don’t care how famous it is, but since it seems to be one of the more “well known” LACs amongst certain “Asian” communities, it’s seen as quite a good choice for students who are looking for an LAC experience but also have to consider the approval of parents and whatnot. My parents are both in academia so they at least know a little about LACs, so if I genuinely consider another (equally as venerable) option there shouldn’t be too big of a problem.</p>
<p>You’re right though that I probably won’t be able to visit the campuses of colleges I’m applying to, which is massively inconvenient, but I guess I’ll have to just cope.</p>