<p>I've already drawn my pros and cons list, and they are basically equal! I've visited them both and liked them equally.</p>
<p>Since I'm already aware of things like location, about my major, etc. I just want personal opinions!
So please reply!!! :)</p>
<p>hii I was deciding a few months ago whether or not to apply early to tufts or wesleyan and I decided on tufts mainly because i loved its quirky yet intellectual energy that ultimately serves to fuel its pursuit of global perspective and justice–wesleyan did not really have this same energy, perhaps because of its location, but probably more because of its relaxed liberal-hippy atmosphere, which is also incredibly valuable. It’s really just a matter of preference.</p>
<p>Haha these are the two that I was ultimately left with after my massive amounts of waitlists lol. But the choice was really easy for me - I ended up hating Wesleyan after visiting. The atmosphere of the campus was absolutely not my style lol. Plus I can’t imagine not being able to have a city like Boston that’s so easily accessible near the campus. And I felt that Tufts had a stronger science program. So ya, go tufts! :P</p>
<p>BOth great schools, but Middletown, CT will get old fast.
Go to Tufts. You’ll enjoy it more…and for longer.</p>
<p>yeah, Middletown would get old – if, Wesleyan students spent as much time away from campus as Tufts students.</p>
<p>^^That sounded a bit snide, jw. There are those who never leave campus (like our D, a first year, who can’t tear herself away from campus, although that may change in later years) and then there are those who take great advantage of what Boston (and Cambridge) has to offer not because they have to/are bored with the campus offerings, but simply because it’s there.</p>
<p>Aside from location, though, there are other differences to the feel of the schools, so if you can,go back and visit again now that you’re in. Wes was also a top contender for our D but while she liked it a lot, she simply loved Tufts—and loves it even more now. But what other people’s opinions are can’t be a substitute for your own, so go take another look.</p>
<p>Both are great schools without a doubt. But I like the location and size of Tufts much better than Wesleyan. 2,700 vs. 5,000. Tufts is the perfect size-small enough to have a real sense of community and a LAC-like feel, yet large enough for lots of great research opportunities, the experimental college, the feeling that you can (and do) meet new people every day and Boston in your backyard.</p>
<p>^^Well stated, CollegeMom</p>
<p>I spent freshmen year at Wesleyan (mid 80s) and have a daughter accepted and headed to Tufts. She adored so much about Tufts but also observed quickly that Tufts was really part LAC and part university, which she loved.</p>
<p>Both are wonderful schools. Both are liberal. Tufts will, obviously, be a less incestuous place socially and have more social choices because of the sheer difference in student population size between the two schools.</p>
<p>Tufts has Boston, which means not only more cultural access and access to other area colleges’ students but also an incomparable number of research/internship opportunities.</p>
<p>Both campuses manage to be an intimate experience for their students. I found Middletown kind of uninspired, and my own daughter hates to be in places of removal. She likes access to a big city but, at the same time, didn’t want to be in the midst of a big city.</p>
<p>I thought that both schools had fairly similar students in terms of sensibility but in knowing, well, 4 accepted kids who got into Wesleyan, I would say that 2 of them would have never been a fit for Tufts.</p>
<p>One other incentive in the direction of Tufts: Filene’s Basement.</p>
<p>Good luck to you–you have 2 great choices. Try to glean whether what you want is a small or medium-sized school.</p>
<p>N.B. I transferred from Wesleyan, after Freshman year, not because of any unhappiness with Wesleyan but because Wesleyan lacked a substantive Physics major. I had a great time of it socially at Wesleyan but recognized, too, that it would have become claustrophobic for me, socially, after a fashion.</p>