Wellesley College

Wellesley Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1870. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,474, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 500 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Wellesley College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 4. Its charge and fees are $45,078 (2014-15).
Wellesley College, amid 12 west afar alfresco of Boston in Wellesley, Mass., has a breathtaking campus encompassing a lake, woodlands, an acreage and accessible meadows. It is a advanced arts academy for women and is one of the aboriginal Seven Sisters Colleges, which includes Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Smith, Radcliffe (now allotment of Harvard), Bryn Mawr and Barnard. Acceptance can accept from added than 150 apprentice organizations on campus. The academy has 14 varsity able-bodied teams that are allotment of NCAA Division III East Academy Able-bodied Conference. Instead of sororities, Wellesley has societies that serve as amusing and bookish clubs. Housing is affirmed for admission freshmen, and the majority of acceptance reside in Wellesley’s 21 abode halls throughout their four years.


Wellesley has a cross-registration affairs with MIT, alms acceptance a greater ambit of courses. Also, acceptance can absorb a division in addition academy in the Northeast as allotment of the Twelve Academy Barter Program. The academy has a able science program, including the nation’s additional oldest physics lab. Wellesley has a affairs alleged the Davis Degree Program, which allows women earlier than 24 to appear college. The academy aswell has abounding traditions, including an anniversary hoop-rolling chase amid the seniors, and stepsinging, if the bookish classes try to out-sing anniversary other. Notable alumni cover above Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; above Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; and ABC account ballast Diane Sawyer.

Wellesley College, one of the a lot of academically arduous institutions of academy apprenticeship in the country and broadly accustomed as the nation's top women's college, provides its acceptance with an arrangement of opportunities that actualize the richest accessible educational environment. Wellesley prepares women to apprehend their own accomplished ambitions and attempt in any setting. Alms added than 1,000 courses in 54 accustomed majors, the Academy aswell supports added than 100 apprentice clubs and organizations (as able-bodied as 14 varsity teams) that serve a advanced ambit of interests. It is this broad-based educational and empiric excellence, forth with its committed faculty, baby chic admeasurement (averaging 17-20, with a student/faculty arrangement of 7:1), and able faculty of community--that distinguishes Wellesley. As an academy that focuses alone on the ethics of a advanced arts apprenticeship (and does not action alum programs), Wellesley is able to address all of its bookish resources--faculty, facilities, and analysis abutment to its undergraduate students. Admission action is "need-blind" for U.S. citizens and abiding residents, acceptance applicants after attention to their adeptness to pay, and authoritative Wellesley one of the few colleges to accommodated 100 percent of approved banking need; additionally, its acceptable behavior annihilate loans for acceptance with the greatest need, creating one of the a lot of socioeconomically assorted colleges in the country. In fact, Wellesley awards banking aid over 50 percent of its students. Anniversary year several hundred women absorb a division (or year) belief abroad, area their banking aid applies; cross-registration is accessible with MIT, Olin Academy of Engineering, Babson, and Brandeis; and alive barter programs are offered through--among others--the Twelve Academy Barter Affairs and Spelman College. Through its Center for Work and Service, Wellesley offers outstanding career advice and internship programs with about three-quarters of acceptance agreeable in at atomic one internship. The Center awards stipends of $3,000 anniversary to 300 acceptance a year, authoritative it accessible for them to actualize their own different internships or yield advantage of an contrarily contributed opportunity. Twenty-one abode halls abode acceptance from all four classes and from 63 countries and 48 states, authoritative Wellesley one of the a lot of assorted colleges in the nation. Celebrated for the abounding amazing accessories on its admirable 500-acre campus, Wellesley is home to the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center; the Science Center; the Knapp Media & Technology Center; the Margaret Clapp Library; the Davis Museum & Collins Cinema; the Keohane Sports Center; the Hunnewell Acreage & Alexandra Botanic Garden and Ferguson Greenhouses; the Jewett Arts Center; the Nehoiden Golf Course; the Newhouse Center for the Humanities; the Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching Center; the Slater International Center; the Wellesley Centers for Women; the Whitin Observatory; the Wellesley Academy Theatre; and the Albright Institute for Global Affairs, which educates women for administration in the world. Alumnae charge to the Academy and its mission is acclaim , and the access a part of the 32,000 alive alums--including above U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 and above U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright '59, ABC Account ballast Diane Sawyer '67, and above Space Shuttle Commander Pamela Melroy '83--are strong. Wellesley is just alfresco of Boston, a city-limits affluent in theatre, art, sports, and entertainment, and busy with tens of bags of academy students.