<p>Thanks Weskid, you represented my views perfectly.</p>
<p>And thejoker, who says no one has ever heard of Wesleyan and Colgate? Yes, I do believe that depending on what you are looking for you can get an equivalent education at Wesleyan and Colgate. There is nothing magical about an Ivy League education that makes it automatically outstanding. If you want a smaller environment, more personal attention from professors (not that you can't get that at Cornell but you will have to compete somewhat more with graduate students), if you want consistently smaller classes, etc. than yes, you may find that your Wesleyan or Colgate education will be every bit as good as the education you receive at Cornell. Your college education is what you make of it. Folks on CC place way too much emphasis on the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Your comments about wanting/not wanting to go to a school the size of your high school, although both Wes and Colgate are almost twice the size of the public high schools here, just shows that one's college preference is a personal decision and that no one school is right for everyone. May not be right for you, but may be right for others.</p>
<p>There is seriously no clothing optional dorm at Wesleyan? That's a bummer.</p>
<p>I suppose Wesleyan and Colgate are a little bit bigger than the LACs I was thinking of -- Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Middlebury. When I have stayed on those campuses, it seems like everybody knows everybody else on campus. </p>
<p>The undergraduate focus at the LACs are definitely there. And it's much easier not to get lost at a LAC. But anybody who is looking for faculty interaction at a place like Cornell will not have to try very hard to find it.</p>
<p>Weskid: Are you sure about not having a clothing optional dorm? That's too bad, that always cracked me up. I read about it in a book written by an ex-admissions officer at Wesleyan. I'll look it up. and get back to you on that... Although I assume from your s/n you attend/attended Wesleyan.</p>
<p>MomOfTwoTeens: I do. I know the dorm. I've been told many times it's not in any way officially clothing optional...of course, this being Wes, and in that dorm in particular, people could not wear clothing and nobody would particuarly mind...</p>
<p>Officially, I think all of Wesleyan actually is "clothing optional", as are the campuses of any other private institutions, because there is no RULE that says you have to wear clothes!</p>
<p>In practice, people generally wear clothes. Whatever. Like Weskid said, no one would care if you wandered around naked.</p>