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[burnbabyburn]

I need real, honest opinions

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[krystynayt]

...it's college. People have a tendency not to be real in college. :) Every school with have interesting, down-to-earth people... and every school will have its share of pretentious blow-hards whom you really just want to slap over and over and over until they get some sense into their fizzy little skulls

[bertie_girl]

Wellesley women are humans who pretend that they're inhuman (but are VERY human and in many cases, very normal, imo). We don't seem to emulate pretention as much as we attempt perfection, which looks a lot like the same thing, except we struggle more obviously. It's a fine line and there are plenty of people who walk outside of it but if you're looking for an utter lack of pretention and image-upholding, Wellesley is not the place. There's fakery on every side: the emphatic hippies, the ambitious i-bankers, the average woman who works hard to show that she's above average somehow. But I don't think this is different from most name-brand colleges.

This is spot-on, and I agree that it's essentially true of every college on your list, no matter how loudly the students might deny it. College is usually the first time that most students live on their own, choose all of their own coursework, make major decisions, and generally decide who they are. It's not exactly a relaxing experience, and pretense (intentional or otherwise) is the

[krystynayt]

On the whole, the campus doesn't participate in any school rivalries

We get a little snarky towards Harvard sometimes... but who doesn't? :)

[bertie_girl]

*laughs* I don't count that. In the sense of, "Go, Blue!!!! Crush [insert school name]!!!" ... yeah, it just doesn't happen.

[burnbabyburn]

I would really like to, but if I did it would most likely be during the Christmas break, and I'm not sure if the school would even be available to really look at during that time.