Hello blog! My time with y’all is ending today since this is my last day of working in the admission office this summer 😞. Don’t worry! I’ll still be around during the academic year, but I just won’t be blogging anymore. I thought a good end to my time with y’all here in this corner of Wellesley’s internet is to share with y’all why I chose Wellesley. Even after all these years, I still vividly remember why I chose to come to Wellesley. I share this at the end of all of my tours, but I’ll get to go more in-depth with it here!
I’ll start off with how I found Wellesley, which was through a specific Google search. I did an online precollege program the spring of my junior year in high school. I really enjoyed it because it allowed me to academically challenge myself in a way my high school didn’t offer at the time. Of course, it was during COVID so academic rigor was hard to come by, but even before COVID, I felt like my school didn’t challenge me academically in the way that I craved. I sought out another precollege program to do over the summer, and saw Wellesley on a list of colleges that offered a program like that. After further research, I found out that Wellesley doesn’t have a precollege program for high school students anymore. Still, it led me to the website, and that’s where it all began.
I brushed Wellesley off at first, but my parents looked into Wellesley and convinced me to give it a harder look. After spending days sifting through Wellesley’s website, it slowly became my dream school. What made it so were these three things: academics, financial aid, and community.
I had always sought out a college experience that would give me a rigorous curriculum. As I was applying to colleges, I realized that it scared me to potentially be locked into an area of study so early on in my college career. The larger universities I was applying to had me apply to certain colleges within their institution. I didn’t want to deal with having to transfer to a different college in the same university if I didn’t like the areas of study they offered. The liberal arts became important to me so I could try on a lot of different disciplines and see what I liked and didn’t like.Â
Financial aid was also important to me because if I was going to go out of state, I really needed something that was affordable for my family and I. I have a little brother that my parents need to put through school after me, so I wanted to be mindful in my decision. Amazingly, Wellesley came out to be the same price as an in-state school. Wellesley’s need-blind financial aid policy made this possible.Â
As I was inching closer to the early decision/early action deadline for schools, I decided to apply to Wellesley Early Decision 1 (ED 1). The thing that sealed the deal for me was the Wellesley community. From all of the videos I watched and time I spent on the website, I could feel that Wellesley was such a special place. I was no longer hesitant about the idea of going to a women’s college because I knew that it was a space that I would only have once in my life since I went to co-ed schools K-12. I wanted a place where I could take up space intellectually, socially, mentally, and emotionally, and feel safe and comfortable doing so. I knew a women’s college environment would provide me that space.
 With all of that, I committed to Wellesley by applying ED 1 and got accepted! I was over the moon about my Wellesley acceptance. After I got accepted, I went out to get my favorite meal with my family: breakfast for dinner. Wellesley has been everything I imagined it to be and more. It’s brought me so many amazing opportunities and lifelong friends. I wish I could keep doing this blog, because I could write a novel about my Wellesley experience, but I hope my time here has provided y’all with some solid insight into what life at Wellesley is like.Â
Thank you so much for reading my blogs this summer! I’m wishing y’all luck with your college applications!
Take care y’all 🫂
Warmly,
SofÃa ‘26