Wesleyan University

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Anyone attended Wesleyan in Middletown, CT? Please share your experiences.

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Fun, smart students. Plenty of drugs.

I didn't go but know many who did.

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Ever see the movie PCU? They based it on Wesleyan.

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I attended. It was very intellectually intense. And just intense in general. Excellent academically.

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There are some frats though. And they have great houses in the middle of campus.

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There are some frats though. And they have great houses in the middle of campus.

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I went there. a direct conduit to NYC professional life.

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Excellent academics. Smart and hard-working students.

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Great school. Lots of individuals doing whatever they are into. Overachievers, intense academics. If you know what you want,it's a very exciting atmosphere. If you're waffling and wavering, you might get lost in the shuffle. I loved every second there.

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Anonymous wrote:Great school. Lots of individuals doing whatever they are into. Overachievers, intense academics. If you know what you want,it's a very exciting atmosphere. If you're waffling and wavering, you might get lost in the shuffle. I loved every second there.

Me too. Class of 91.

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Anyone recently graduate or have a child who recently graduated? Is it as academic as it once was or has it become more of an LAC activist training ground? Would a kid with middle of the road views feel like a fish out of water there? How would you compare to climate in that regard to other LACs -- like Vassar, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, etc.

I'm thinking of the bit last fall about students demanding the school newspaper be defunded for running an article by a student-military veteran that was interpreted as expressing an unpopular view among the student body. The President (to his credit) had to step in and reject the students demands with his own op-ed.

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We have spring break around the corner and just added Wesleyan to the itinerary.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some frats though. And they have great houses in the middle of campus.

I think, if I'm not mistaken, that the only fraternity left is Alpha Delt, which is coed. My Dad was an Alpha Delt at Wesleyan - class of 1956!

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Anonymous wrote: Anyone recently graduate or have a child who recently graduated? Is it as academic as it once was or has it become more of an LAC activist training ground? Would a kid with middle of the road views feel like a fish out of water there? How would you compare to climate in that regard to other LACs -- like Vassar, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, etc.

I'm thinking of the bit last fall about students demanding the school newspaper be defunded for running an article by a student-military veteran that was interpreted as expressing an unpopular view among the student body. The President (to his credit) had to step in and reject the students demands with his own op-ed.

I had a child who was a recent grad. My impression that Wesleyan is a strong academic place, with very liberal leaning and proclivities. My child has middle-of-the -road views and had a great time there. I am told there are a lot of hipsters there (whatever that means.)
Over the last several years, there have been many campuses that had uprisings over various topics (Yale, Claremont-McKenna, Amherst, Oberlin, etc.) I think it is a sign of the times and this generation rather than emblematic of a particular campus.

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Thanks 14:48. We've been on the fence as to whether to visit this Spring break, so hearing from people like you with direct recent experiences are useful. Any others?