Wellesley College Top Questions

That we all work like crazy, take ourselves too seriously, and have no fun.

Oh man. Wellesley has more stereotypes/rumors/reputations than you can even mention. I'll probably exceed the character limit on this box before I get to them all. Let's see. To quote an article in the Harvard Crimson (which I found online this one time that my friends and I wikipediaed "fuck truck"), "Rumors—and a scathing 2001 Rolling Stone article entitled “The Highly Charged Erotic Life of a Wellesley Girl”—paint Wellesley as a school populated by hyper-sexualized, lonely nymphets. Or maybe it’s a school filled with aspiring desperate housewives in search of their Harvard hubbies. Or maybe it’s a school of bookworms who would rather focus on academics than waste their time on guys. Or maybe they’re all just lesbians." So, that sums things up pretty nicely. Maybe we're crazy, overly promiscuous party girls. Maybe we're to (as my mom would say) get our "MRS degree." Maybe we're frigid bitches and snobs and too busy trying to change and/or take over the world to deal with boys. Or maybe we're just a bunch of lesbians. (As the facebook group has it: "I don't go to Lesbian University, I go to Lesbian College: we don't have grad students.) Wellesley has so many different reputations that it's a little ridiculous. Of course, because we're a women's college, we're not as well known as some comparable coed institutions, so it's easy for misinformation to go unchecked.

There are several stereotypes of the Wellesley student that often conflict. Wellesley is obviously an all-girls school and as such, the lesbian jokes abound. There is the classic gay stereotype of 2400 raging dykes who cut their hair, wear piercings and tattoos and dress as men. On the other end of the stereotypical spectrum there is the image of Wellesley women as men-chasers. Harvard and MIT female students (and yes, there are women at MIT) are purported to have an extremely negative view of Wellesley students. After all, after the Wellesley women are done, there just aren't any boys left in Boston.

So many: sex starved, gay, brilliant, driven, rich, snobby, preppy, hippie...

I've heard that some students "turn gay", which I don't believe for a second. Also, many believe Wellesley students are all hairy liberal feminists. (also not the case). I think that there is a lot of suspicion that the majority are lesbians. Also, since it is an all women's college, there is this belief that Wellesley women are desperate for men.

Wellesley students are assumed to be bitingly smart and entirely uninterested in wearing a bra, spouting bits of their senior thesis on riveting dichotomies between various isms and writing love letters to their girlfriends.

There are a lot of stereotypes about Wellesley women. For example, a lot of people assume that we are all lesbian or bisexual or that we jump on top of men the second we catch sight of them. Another stereotype is that we are all of asian descent, and refuse to go outside because we are too busy studying.

most girls who go here are gay, it is very intense academically, people are very open, very competitive

Wellesley students are super driven, to the point of being cut-throat. Wellesley women are really ambitious, they don't do anything but school. We're all lesbians or really, really hard up for sex with any man that comes our way.