What’s Going on at Wellesley?
By Matt Zeitlin - Jun 10th, 2008 at 5:30 pmFor some reason, America’s most prestigious all-women’s school can invite no end of speculation about the sex lives of its students. First it was Jay Dixit’s controversial Rolling Stone article, “The Highly Charged Erotic Life of a Wellesley Girl,” and now there’s a study, published in Counterpoint: The MIT-Wellesley Journal of Campus Life that attempts to debunk, or at least discuss more empirically, Dixit’s article. There are plenty of faux-salacious details about the sex lives of Wellesley and MIT students (they are less promiscuous than your average group of college students; 70 percent of MIT freshmen are virgins), but the best part is this graph showing rates of virginity among Wellesley students by majors. Let the jokes and stereotypes commence!
Stereotypes confirmed: Zero percent of Studio Art majors are virgins (at least in this sample), while 83 percent of math majors are. Also, not shockingly, French and Spanish are at the low end of virgin concentration, but so is computer science. Insert joke here.
Studio Art, eh? Hmm I mean they do have to draw naked people a lot…
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