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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously- I think it is one of the best schools out there, much better than the top LACs due to [b]the sheer DIVERSITY of academics[/b] 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?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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