Smith vs. Wellesley vs. Bowdoin

princesssoophie
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 03:18:57 +0000

Academics: Sounds like Smith would be the perfect fit for you! Unlike Wellseley or Bowdoin Smith has an open curriculum which means there are no required classes that you have to take (except for one writing intensive course your first year). I usually do the worst in classes that don’t interest me, which then leads to lots of stress, so if you can relate to this then I think the open curriculum at Smith will appeal to you! Also, you seem to have a lot if interests, which is awesome! If there is a certain class that you want take that Smith does not offer, you can take it at one of the other 4 colleges that Smith is linked too. (Buses for Smith students are free.) Going to Smith gives you five colleges for the price of one. As a student in the Five College system (Smith, mount holyoke, umassamherst, amherst, hampshire) you may choose from more than 5,000 undergraduate course offerings a year.

Social life: I know a few people that go to Bowdoin, and it is a big drinking school. Wellesley and Smith are not party schools, like you said, but if you want to find parties to go to its pretty easy, especially at Smith, which is 20 minutes away by bus from Umassamherst and Amherst which are pretty big party schools. I heard that for Wellesley you can go to parties at Harvard, but its not as easy because they’re pretty far away from each other.

Sports: Bowdoin, Wellesley and Smith are all devision III (which is the lowest sports division), but I think that Bowdoin is the sportiest one out of the three because I know a bunch of people who got recruited to Bowdoin for sports.

I hope this helps! Good luck with everything I would definitely visit Wellesley again! I visited in the summer as well and it was pretty dead lol