<p>Frazzledmaybe,thank you so much for sharing your story with us. You have no idea how encouraging this is for me: I was not accepted at Wellesley and I am the girl that Diplomat talks about. I have a similar story with you: transeferring form a cc, 3.9 GPA, I am fluent in four languages, Political Science and Philosophy major, SATs were very good except for MAth (i have been out of high school for four years, and I did not even had the same program as US high schools)private high school in my home country, survivor of domestic abuse during my years at cc, I won full scholarship to attend my high school, 14 classes a semeseter (very advanced level); great 3 college professor (All PhDs and Fullbright scholars) recommandations (I have copies of the recommandations b/c they give me strength when things do not go so well and I have marks on my face), one amazing counselor recommandation- I have done a lot of community services here even though it has been EXTREMELY hard (plus a part job cleaning houses), the first one from my college to ever do an internship, president of a very large club at cc (my college has 20.000 + students). Phi Theta Kappa member and I have won a few awards, but I have taken classes for four years at cc, a few of them I had to retake because I withdrew due to my family situation. My application was very strong; my essay was about discrimination against women as an international phenomena and my personal experiences with it (how my professors in my home country thought that women are ignorant or how I am considered an immoral woman b/c of what I am studying), I had an on campus interview and to pay for the ticket to go there I had to sell a bracelet that my father gave me for my birthday. I was very disappointed with the interview: the lady asked me about my volunteer projects, looked at my transcript and said that she is amazed why I dropped 3 classes in one semester and repeated 9 times that I was most likely not to be accepted b/c it is very competitive. The interview lasted 15 minutes. I have been torturing myself for the last two weeks since I received the decision (rejected) and I can not stop thinking what would have happened if I did things differently- but I did more than my best with what I was given. Needless to say, the lady that interviewed me for MHC was very different from Wellesley and I am going to attend MHC in the fall (lets be friends)! Wellesley and Smith are the only ones that did not accept me from 9 colleges where I applied (including Georgetown, Columbia University, Hollins University, University of Pennsylvania). Reading your story gives me strength that It was not me who was not good enough, but probably the way they function over there. As my counselor says: Wellesley is a famous school, but they keep their noses up too high: if you are different from them, not a legacy and not wealthy, you are not going to get there. GO MHC- the more I read about it, the more I know I am going to love it there and fit much better than at Wellesley. Sorry for the second novel in this post.</p>