Why don't more kids want Wesleyan?

[Anonymous]

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

Oberlin yes, Wesleyan maybe? (was not the vibe we got on a tour this summer.) But Bates is not remotely woke. Which discredits the PP entirely.

[Anonymous]

I’m not a Wes hater, but I found the campus and surrounding area to be kind of drab and depressing. I wouldn’t rule it out on that basis as an adult, but as a teen who probably toured more bucolic campuses on the same road trip, I might put it lower on the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a Wes hater, but I found the campus and surrounding area to be kind of drab and depressing. I wouldn’t rule it out on that basis as an adult, but as a teen who probably toured more bucolic campuses on the same road trip, I might put it lower on the list.

I felt the same. Great school but there are other colleges nearby with more attractive campuses/towns.

[Anonymous]

I really like Wes when we toured. Thought it struck a nice balance for a LAC, not too woke, not too conservative. But I can also see how that makes it hard for the school to establish an identity.

[Anonymous]

Extremely liberal not even close to moderate. Not s great location and campus is below average. Loads of better options.

[Anonymous]

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

What about ACT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't want my kids going to a college teh size of their high school. Too small.

At 316 acres, Wesleyan is fairly large, even compared to some other universities.

[Anonymous]

It’s a prep school off load.

[Anonymous]

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

+1. No thank you.

[Anonymous]

Wesleyan gets more than 1300 ED applications, same as Middlebury (and significantly more than Amherst or Williams), so I think the premise of the post is flawed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

+1. No thank you.

Oh no!! Liberals who care about someone besides themselves!! Sounds like a terrible environment!

[Anonymous]

Not everyone want to go to a college the size of a high school.

Just as your intellectual capacity increases and you can see this progression: day cares tend to be very small, elementary a little bigger, middle schools much bigger and high schools are even more so. Why do you then suddenly want to be among less number of students?

[Anonymous]

I liked it for my kid, but the kid wanted to be closer to where we live. Otherwise it would have been a great fit, but a reach application wise.

[Anonymous]

SLAC are just another form of prestige chasing. No different than chasing US news rankings.

[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?

It's a good school among thousands. Numerous options out there.

No need to hype it up.