<p>We start picking up our mail in the new campus center starting August 20th! Quite soon. I leave for Hungary just a couple of days before that, but I'm hoping to sneak a peak anyway.</p>
<p>Hi. I'm a senior in high school and I'm considering applying early decision to Wesleyan. I play volleyball and I really want to continue competitively in college.</p>
<p>I've met with the Wesleyan coach (she seems very nice) and she came to see me play at a tournament once. However since then she has not responded to any of my emails or phone calls. I know this sounds hopeless, but I refuse to give up. I know I can play D III (other coaches are recruiting me) and I don't want to believe that she is just avoiding me until I know for sure.</p>
<p>I won't apply early to Wesleyan unless I know I'll have a chance to play on the volleyball team and I have visited the team and get along with them. However I obviously can't set up an overnight without talking to the coach. My last message to her was on her answering machine a few weeks ago, and I basically told her that I am really interested in Wesleyan and it would help my college process a lot to know if I can or cannot play on her team, or even what I could improve on. I said that if she didn't want to talk on the phone, she could email me. I still have not heard anything.</p>
<p>I visited Franklin and Marshall recently (what I would say right now is my second choice) and saw some of their pre-season practices. I met a girl on the team who said she sent the Wesleyan coach a videotape and emails and didn't hear anything, whereas the F&M coach called her and recruited her. She said that she did get into Wesleyan, and only then, after her acceptance letter came, did she hear from the coach. This worries me because I don't want to apply early decision until I have heard from the coach and have met the team.</p>
<p>I feel like I've tried everything I could. Does anyone have any advice? What else can I do???</p>
<p>ShayO--I'm not an athlete, so I don't really know much about this. But did you make it clear to the couch in your messages that you are strongly considering applying to Wes ED, but you can't if you don't know about the team? Because if not, maybe she'll be more responsive if she knows you might apply early.</p>
<p>That's a good idea. I'll definitely try. I still think, based on her history with me, that she probably won't respond though. So I think I might go to a Wesleyan game and try to talk to her in person afterwards. It's only 2 hours away.</p>
<p>The reason I haven't said anything about ED yet is because I wasn't considering it until recently. Plus, coaches from the same region are friends and talk to each other about recruits. I have other coaches recruiting me from NESCAC, and I don't want them to hear that I'm applying early to Wesleyan until I'm sure I am. In case that doesn't end up happening or I don't get in, I don't want all my other choices to fall through because they've stopped recruiting me.</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I have another quick question, totally un-volleyball related. I wanted to get the bulk of my application done as soon as possible, so I went to the Wesleyan website and found the pre-application. I was wondering: if I check the box that says early decision, is it still okay for me to change my mind and apply regular decision, or is this really official?</p>
<p>I can't access the regular application until I fill this out, and most of my friends have already done their common apps so I want to get started. I'm pretty sure I'm applying ED but nothing is set in stone right now.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>the Common App is available from <a href="http://www.commonapp.org%5B/url%5D">www.commonapp.org</a>, under "Download Forms". this is the exact application that you would get from wesleyan's website (wes uses the common app). so you can still fill out the common app and get to work on it without committing to ED!</p>
<p>what is wesleyan known for?
is it good for science majors?
if i am headed towards the medical field, is wesleyan a good choice?</p>
<p>Wesleyan is know for Film Studies...and science :D So yes, it is good for someone headed into the medical feild. Because it is actually a university, it gets grad school funding for the sciences, which most LACs do not have, but since the grad program is TINY, it has tons of oppertunties for undergrads to participate in reaserch and stuff. Plus the science and pre-med community is really supportive, instead of competeitve.</p>
<p>what makes wesleyan different from all the other schools in terms of academics? i mean, i can say that wesleyan has a good premed program, but that statement seems to apply to many other schools, such as oberlin, occidental, and pomona--am i right? or am i way off?
thanks</p>
<p>Wesleyan is the only little ivy college that conducts theoretical scientific research 24/7 365 days a year; it's not limited to summer research grants which is the only time most other LAC professors get the time to conduct original research (unless, they are on paid sabbatical.)</p>
<p>This means someone interested in the sciences gets the best of both worlds: a close-knit campus in a small town New England setting -- not unlike Amherst -- AND the chance to study with professors doing groundbreaking research -- not unlike Tufts or Dartmouth or certainly, Brown.</p>
<p>I guess, that I would only add that the sense of being at the cutting edge of the profession suffuses other departments outside the sciences as well.</p>
<p>"Wesleyan is the only little ivy college that conducts theoretical scientific research 24/7 365 days a year; it's not limited to summer research grants which is the only time most other LAC professors get the time to conduct original research (unless, they are on paid sabbatical.)"</p>
<p>Are you seriously claiming that science professors at the other little Ivy's do not conduct research while classes are in session? What is your evidence for that assertion?</p>
<p>They simply don't have the staff. It takes a lot of technical assistance to run a first-rate research lab all year round. You can fill in some gaps with undergraduates. But, for the most part, you need lab assistants, post-docs and TAs. My evidence is the relative dearth of NSF sponsored research conducted at other little ivies; it is sporadic at best, compared to Wesleyan. And, that if you follow where the bulk of their grant money comes from when they make big announcements, they are specifically geared towards the summer (e.g., the Hughes Medical Institute) when professors don't have lectures to prepare and papers to grade.</p>
<p>Will not having an interview severely decrease my chances of admission? I was just up at Wesleyan in late August for a tour...and don't think that I can get back there to have an interview.</p>
<p>You don't need to have an on campus interview. I had a fantastic alumni interview last year. I personally think a good interview helps alot. Wes admissions does take them seriously. By the way I love Wes its the best decision I've made.</p>
<p>An alumni interview is fine and actually can be lots of fun... that's what I did. And in any case don't stress about the interview, it's mainly to make sure you're not a potential serial killer or something. I don't know how much it really affects the decision in the end.</p>
<p>want2bIvy, I didn't have an interview at all, and I got in. I do feel, however, that it might be helpful to have an interview, either with an alum or at Wes. If you have a good interview, it'll certainly help raise the strength of your candidacy.</p>
<p>Hey Showtunesguy, they put one of your College Confidential posts on Wesleying! Have you seen it? Way to go!</p>
<p>couple questions--
i think i'm going to have an interview this fall sometime, and i'm wondering if anyone who has had a wes interview on campus could tell me what it was like. is it formal or casual? what kinds of questions do they ask? (i guess it might help to say that this will be my first college interview)</p>
<p>also-if anyone knows a website that shows the formatting of a kind of resume to go on college apps.... that would be awesome</p>
<p>very casual :) it's with a Wesleyan senior (an actual student), so it's pretty relaxed. It was by far the least stressful college interview I had. The conversation can be about anything - we talked about my extracurriculars, about politics and Nietzsche, perhaps slightly taboo topics, but it was fun. Don't worry too much, dress nicely enough, and just show up (and remember that this is your perfect opportunity to ask questions about Wesleyan to an actual student, too!)</p>
<p>Any freshmen from this year on this board? I'd love to hear from them about what surprised them about Wesleyan in their first month on campus. For example, is it true or not that the school attracts more kids out of the political/cultural mainstream than other LACs? Does the campus have a lot going on, on the weekends? Thanks in advance.</p>