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Wellesley College is in a wealthy suburb outside of Boston which means
it's extremely safe. Crime of any kind is rare at Wellesley. (All bets
are off if you go into Boston or Cambridge, which, compared to
Washington DC metro where I now live are very safe but they are still
cities and they are where all of the big, co-ed universities are so
that's where most Wellesley women head on the weekends). It's
bucolic...a GORGEOUS campus with lots of green space, its own golf
courses, beach, pond and observatory. The campus is quite well cared
for and many of the older buildings have been renovated recently. The
dorms are very home-like and some of the living accommodations are in
houses that Wellesley has renovated for their students. The school has
even experimented with giving single mothers homes to live in with
their kids while they went to school.
The food is better than anywhere else I've gone to school. It's
prepared by Marriott Corporation Chefs, is plentiful, fresh and offered
in every style from kosher to vegan. There are, in fact, kosher and
vegetarian dining rooms! Wellesley provides shuttle buses during the
week to the local public transportation station as well as into
Cambridge, near Boston, where the bus stops at MIT. On the weekends,
the shuttle buses go to Harvard as well and run late into the evening.
Students can get security escorts, including rides back to dorms (the
campus is huge for a small liberal arts collge) and around the campus
late at night as well. The school has it's own, well-trained police
force that patrols vigilantly all hours of the day and night. There is
an expansive and well equipped athletic facility where the sports teams
practice and play, an olympic sized pool, several workout rooms with a
variety of equipment in each, modern locker rooms with hotel-like
amenities in some cases and myriad classes of every conceivable type
that students can take to increase, improve and maintain fitness.
Nutrition assistance is also available. The health center there is
outstanding, fully staffed with doctors and nurses and there is even a
full-fledged counseling program on the campus (in fact, there are
several of different type since, as I said, one-third of all of the
students at Wellsley have some sort of learning difference like ADHD).
For those who need additional medical care, one can't beat the Boston
area for that. Some of the world's best hospitals are a short distance
from Wellesly, including Newton-Wellesley Hospital. But students can
get everything from flu shots to physicals right on campus.
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