<p>Advantagious, I DO have two years left to complete on my degree. I am a transfer from a community college (i.e., a two-year college). Yes, it is technically possible to graduate with very few 300-level courses, but community colleges tend to not have many major-specific courses, so it would have been literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to graduate in less than 2 years. More importantly, I made it abundantly clear that I was aware that I could only transfer two years of credit. What logical institution cares if I have more than two years if I can only transfer two years? The fact of the matter is that Wellesley’s admissions officers refused to look past a technicality that wouldn’t even affect how long I’d need to attend. </p>
<p>I disagree that Wellesley only admits privileged students, but I maintain that their red-tape prevents them from accepting diversity that doesn’t help their stats. If I were a few years older, I’d be eligible to apply through their older person’s program, so it is a joke to say that there is some real reason for my ineligibility based on extra credits that, again, wouldn’t even affect the two-year residency requirement. There IS a reason for not accepting males (this is a false analogy that you presented), and that is maintaining the all-women’s environment and commitment to women’s education. </p>
<p>Also, if you had carefully read my comment you would have seen that I called colleges about the residency requirement and was told that it did not apply for community college students. Almost all colleges have this requirement, so it was not something I only viewed on Wellesley’s site. I even had an interview at Wellesley with an Adcom who saw my transcript and knew that I had more than two years of credit, yet nothing was said to me BEFORE I applied. Wellesley, like Smith (which I mentioned told me two different things within the very same day), needs to keep their people on the same page. </p>
<p>I understand that you want to defend your college, but red tape is red tape regardless of whether you have college loyalty. Of course Wellesley is a wonderful college, and I believe I pointed out that it offers many women wonderful opportunities; HOWEVER, it does not value true diversity more than silly rules. That is not arguable with stats, since obviously they wouldn’t have rules to prevent better stats.For the record, I don’t think anyone was trying to say that Wellesley should be thrown away as an option. We were only saying that in this area MHC (or at least the administration) is superior. Obviously there are close-minded individuals EVERYWHERE, so we would be fools to claim that MHC had that over Wellesley or vice versa. Wellesley had a student body open enough to be among most of our top choices, after all. :)</p>
<p>PS: Wellesley DOES accept male applicants if they happen to have female genitalia. Just saying. :)</p>