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Wesleyan--the "little three" nobody talks about |
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agreed |
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09/06/2001 |
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For those of you who don't know it, Wesleyan University is in the "little three" consortium with Amherst and Williams. It's not completely filled with trust-fund owning, tennis-playing pre-I-Banking proto-yuppies, and I think that's why it doesn't get the same name recognition as the other two schools. It's not that the students who go to Willams and Amherst are better or smarter than Wes students--they're not. Most of my fellow Wesleyan classmates got into Amherst and Williams, as well as P/H/Y, and Brown, and chose Wesleyan instead. Reputation is only part of why people choose a college--there's also the quality of education, amount of personal attention, campus life, etc. Most of my friends who went to Harvard never had a class smaller than 50 people. Their professors never knew them on a first-name basis. And the administration at Harvard notoriously treats the undergrads like shit. Most of my classes at Wesleyan had 20 people or less. We knew our professors and sometimes even hung out with them. My classmates were engaging, passionate, and smart as hell. And different. We had jocks and preps, hippie chicks, Javanese Gamalan players, farmers, political activists, and pretty much everything else under the sun. I'm proud to have gone there.
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Agreed. Many of my friends got rejected from Wesleyan hoping to go there. Its a tough school to get into. I think last year's acceptance rate was 29%(?) according to US news? Of course nobody should trust US news, but surely its acceptance data should be free of manipulation.
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