Why don't more kids want Wesleyan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan, Bates, Oberlin are lefty liberal woke havens.

You forgot Brown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way way too liberal has been for over 50 years. No thanks!

Damn Methodists. So liberal! What with the teachings of Jesus, who was a woke pinko and all.

[Anonymous]

Left, lefty, woke. No thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Left, lefty, woke. No thanks!

Suddenly Wes is more appealing if it repels MAGA scum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Left, lefty, woke. No thanks!

+ it’s $96,560 a year !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Left, lefty, woke. No thanks!

More idiots have entered the conversation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both pomona and wes aren't all that impressive when it comes to academic horsepower of their students

Pomona has 1766 undergrads
436 freshman
155 freshman submitted sat
only 116 have sat above 1500

Wes has 3805 undergrads
824 freshman
335 freshman submitted an sat
only 83 have above 1500

Have you done this analysis for other colleges? I’d be interested to see you post it for all of the Top100 or so.

Are people really looking at what percentage of students have an SAT higher than X before committing? What a weird grinder/striver mentality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both pomona and wes aren't all that impressive when it comes to academic horsepower of their students

Pomona has 1766 undergrads
436 freshman
155 freshman submitted sat
only 116 have sat above 1500

Wes has 3805 undergrads
824 freshman
335 freshman submitted an sat
only 83 have above 1500

Have you done this analysis for other colleges? I’d be interested to see you post it for all of the Top100 or so.

Are people really looking at what percentage of students have an SAT higher than X before committing? What a weird grinder/striver mentality.

Weird Asian grinder/striver mentality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan offered my middle-class kid much better financial aid than the robustly endowed Yale, Dartmouth, Penn, or WashU, for which I'll be forever grateful. My impression is that the buildings aren't as nice as richer schools, but Wes spends its money on the things that matter, such as financial aid and top-level professors. Vibe/culture-wise, it's not for everyone, but the educational quality is fantastic. (My kid ended up on the West Coast, but I wouldn't have objected if they had picked Wes.)

That said, while I agree with OP that Wes is great, I think OP's premise--Wes is superior to better-ranked LACs--is flawed. I think all the top LACs, Wes included, offer something unique. People here are too fixated on ordinal rankings and abstract notions of prestige.

What west coast school did your DC end up at? Did they have better or comparable financial aid as Wesleyan?
Brown and Duke offered awful FA for my DC1 but now I have an another child applying and we’re trying to find financial fit schools too.

[Anonymous]

It’s Brown lite. No moderates and certainly conservatives would ever step foot at Wesleyan and this predates Trump by many decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously- I think it is one of the best schools out there, much better than the top LACs due to the sheer DIVERSITY of academics one can take part in- Along with the typical liberal arts subjects, Wesleyan allows study in the College of Letters/Social Science, Molecular Biophysics (the sole undergraduate liberal arts college to be designated a Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Research Training Center), Design and Engineering Studies, Integrative Sciences, and a fully-equipped Science and Technology Studies program. It gives students both the option to graduate in 3 years of 5 years with an MA, has a writing dorm community known as Writer's Block, has an amazing Public Affairs Center with very active programming with students, is constructing a new massive science center rivaling Amherst College, a new integrative arts lab, and most importantly the president is very level-headed and improving faculty diversity of thought and campus speech invites.

It is a much larger LAC (~3000 undergrads), has faculty with phd level projects, and it overall is a much more dynamic and diverse lab than the ones being propped up. What's keeping it behind?

This is not a positive. The best liberal arts education is the classical core curriculum of Columbia, Chicago, etc. SLACs like Wesleyan moved away from that to the “cafeteria” style (pick whatever you want) simply because students liked to pick and profs the. Could teach whatever they wanted in whatever obscure field they were interested in. The problem with the cafeteria slac is that you graduate having only taken a jumble of courses - with no cohesive education. My own SLAC was this way - I got a lousy education for the cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s Brown lite. No moderates and certainly conservatives would ever step foot at Wesleyan and this predates Trump by many decades.

it was a safety school for Yale back in my day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both pomona and wes aren't all that impressive when it comes to academic horsepower of their students

Pomona has 1766 undergrads
436 freshman
155 freshman submitted sat
only 116 have sat above 1500

Wes has 3805 undergrads
824 freshman
335 freshman submitted an sat
only 83 have above 1500

Have you done this analysis for other colleges? I’d be interested to see you post it for all of the Top100 or so.

Are people really looking at what percentage of students have an SAT higher than X before committing? What a weird grinder/striver mentality.

My high performing DC wants to be around others like them. If you had a 1590 first sitting SAT as a sophomore, linear algebra as a soph you too would understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both pomona and wes aren't all that impressive when it comes to academic horsepower of their students

Pomona has 1766 undergrads
436 freshman
155 freshman submitted sat
only 116 have sat above 1500

Wes has 3805 undergrads
824 freshman
335 freshman submitted an sat
only 83 have above 1500

Have you done this analysis for other colleges? I’d be interested to see you post it for all of the Top100 or so.

Are people really looking at what percentage of students have an SAT higher than X before committing? What a weird grinder/striver mentality.

My high performing DC wants to be around others like them. If you had a 1590 first sitting SAT as a sophomore, linear algebra as a soph you too would understand.

Dang. Certified genius. One in a million.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both pomona and wes aren't all that impressive when it comes to academic horsepower of their students

Pomona has 1766 undergrads
436 freshman
155 freshman submitted sat
only 116 have sat above 1500

Wes has 3805 undergrads
824 freshman
335 freshman submitted an sat
only 83 have above 1500

Have you done this analysis for other colleges? I’d be interested to see you post it for all of the Top100 or so.

Are people really looking at what percentage of students have an SAT higher than X before committing? What a weird grinder/striver mentality.

My high performing DC wants to be around others like them. If you had a 1590 first sitting SAT as a sophomore, linear algebra as a soph you too would understand.

Dang. Certified genius. One in a million.

There are kids like that at TJ. I know one that got shut out from all top schools and ended up at UVA.