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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP: I think in general, Wesleyan has a good reputation. [b]The issue seems to be a combination of its target audience and competitive set. [/b]

It's not well know outside of the Northeast or among international students, so the target audience pool is smaller than the other top schools say Georgetown that may have a comparable level of academic rigor and faculty quality as Wesleyan. In my community (Northeast private school not in the DMV), every family has heard of Wesleyan, however, the families that would be most interested in this kind of left-leaning artsy LAC education Wesleyan has to offer will always choose Yale, Brown and Amherst first over Wesleyan. In our school, the top kids never go to Wes, so despite lots of positive feedback on the school over the years from kids who ended up there, it is perennially treated as a backup. Wes also competes with schools like McGill and St Andrew's.

I know 3 kids at Wes right now, all great kids and are super happy now but none picked Weslyan as a first choice. In fact, one waited until July to commit last year because they were waiting to clear wait list at a similarly ranked LAC after not getting into a couple Ivies and WASP, and almost decided to go to McGill instead. [/quote]

Except that doesn’t actually seem to be an issue given the number of ED applications, which is the same as if not higher than peer SLACs (many of which are also second choices after Ivies). No one denies that many of the students at Wes had another school as their first choice…but find me a liberal arts school, with the possible exception of the top five, where that’s not the case (and I know of kids at Amherst and Pomona who had other schools as first choice).

This is a conversation in search of a problem. Many students have Wesleyan as a first choice. More, possibly, have it as a second or third choice. Many don’t find it appealing at all. This is the case for 99% of schools in the country.[/quote]

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