Seeing 2 Colleges Through a New Lens

The Chronicle asked two minority students to write about their perspectives on diversity after taking part in exchange programs at colleges radically different from their own. Maya Dean, a Mount Holyoke senior, writes about her semester at Spelman College, and Britney Payton, a Spelman senior, below discusses her semester at Wellesley College.

"Oh don't you wish you were a Spelmanite like me!" That chant sealed Spelman College for me during an overnight visit in my senior year of

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