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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I looked up Wesleyan which was mentioned a few times on this thread. It seems overwhelmingly filled private high school students based on my admittedly limited review of a few team rosters and clubs. But I can’t find an actual stat on this on the website. To those with first hand knowledge, is this a correct perception? [/quote]

I graduated 20 years ago, so take this with a grain (or teaspoon) of salt.

There was a contingent from boarding schools (Andover, Exeter, Choate, NMH) - quite a few of those kids played sports. In fact, a lot of sports and activities at Wes seemed geared towards the boarding school set since squash, water polo, crew, a cappella singing, etc. weren’t really done in public schools back in the 90s. This could be the reason for their over representation on rosters.

I, personally, didn’t know many kids from private day schools.

Most of us were from excellent public schools i.e. Newton North & South, Stuyvesant, Hunter College High School, or public schools located in well-to-do areas or university towns.

One kid in my hall came from a standard public school - really smart & ultimately went to a great grad school, but had a rough time of it in class first year since he basically had to play catch-up.
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I didn’t love my time at Wes for a variety of reasons,[/b] but it was a very intellectually stimulating environment.

My partner taught at Johns Hopkins for several  semesters a few years ago. It’s safe to say that the kids at JHU were far, far more concerned with grades than they were at Wes. On the other hand, it was difficult to contact profs before cell phones & when email was relatively new - we would have had to go to office hours & beg to get that A- changed to an A in front of our peers.  Additionally, the economic landscape for new grads is different now (ie more competitive/stressful). So both of these factors could contribute to what I interpreted as a relatively grade-focused approach to learning at JHU in recent years.[/quote]

Do you mind sharing a bit about why you didn't love your time there? I know someone else who went (and who you'd think on paper would be a great fit for Wes) and she didn't care for it either. This was a few years ago.[/quote]

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