<p>I'm also considering wesleyan. I think I would really like it socially and politically, but I'm leaning toward Amherst for the better financial aid. I hate trying to make decisions!</p>
<p>mydzungC, I'm sorry you got that impression of Wesleyan. I must admit, that's my biggest concern as well - the pot/alcohol use, which just isn't my scene. However, I plan to go all four years without once getting drunk, smoking, or doing any illegal substances - so it's possible! Really. And plenty of other pre-frosh I spoke to at Wesfest said the same thing. Plus, Wesfest really is the "ultra-Wesleyan" and it's not QUITE like that for the entire year. I was really impressed that I was able to go to a gazillion parties (Me! Partying! And I'm a total geek, I swear) and have an amazing time with no drugs. I just loved the laidback atmosphere.</p>
<p>BTW, I went to the behavioural neurobiology class too. It was AMAZING, in my opinion. What's your name again?</p>
<p>Still, Smith is a great school. My mum went there and loved it! So wishing you all the best :D</p>
<p>NOBODY GO! I want to get off the wait list!!</p>
<p>I want to get off the wait list too!</p>
<p>Didn't attend WesFest, but I sat in a Law, Race and Literature class. WOW. Punzalan is great.</p>
<p>Turning Wes down for Rice though, so goodluck! haha.</p>
<p>Ultimately chose Wes over UC Berkeley. Tough decision, but Berkeley can wait for grad school. :)</p>
<p>Should we make a Wesleyan Class of 2009 thread??? How do we make a sub-forum for that?</p>
<p>sent you a PM Paragon..</p>
<p>For all of you who said you're considering either Amherst or Smith, I just thought i'd put in my two cents (take it or leave it). </p>
<p>Right now i'm a rising sophomore at Mt. Holyoke but I applied to transfer for the fall. .. I hear any day now from Wes, which is my top choice. While I don't go to Amherst my ex b/f does and I spent a great deal of time at the school... I did meet some nice people, but the majority of the people I met there were snobby and incredibly rude and unwelcoming to people not from their school. Part of the reason I was okay with going to an all women school was because of the thought that Amherst/UMASS were 15 minutes away, but after spending a year at Mt. Holyoke, I am leaving with maybe 2 male friends (friends of my ex, who I didn't even meet at school) and it's not for lack of trying. Also, a lot of my friends have taken classes at Amherst and say that girls there hardly say anything at all in class, and that the general atmosphere is one of people trying to one-up eachother and prove that they're smarter than the next person. Just take a look at the Amherst Daily Jolt Forum--one of the most recent discussions has been rating the top 50 Hottest Amherst Men/Women. Hey, if that's the kind of school you want to be at, then go for it. </p>
<p>I know less about Smith, but I do know that they face the same problems that we do at Mt. Holyoke. It's next to impossible to make any male friends at the other schools, and probably harder to make female friends. I was expecting to find (maybe naively), more camaraderie between the schools so it's been really disappointing to find so much animosity. </p>
<p>I'm sorry if anyone's already made their decisions and i'm scaring you now...but I just thought that if you hadn't you deserve to hear about it from a student who's been there.</p>
<p>hey thanks lbridge!</p>
<p>this probably doesn't belong in this thread, but...any idea on when freshmen would obtain their e-mail addresses? clearly not for a little while, but i was just curious...</p>
<p>in the end, i also chose wesleyan over uc berkeley like anothersuitcase. it was a tough choice. my parents don't exactly understand. it might be because of the price. in addition to in-state tuition, i got two scholarships to berkeley. oh well, wesleyan is a better fit for me. go WESLEYAN!!</p>
<p>What I worry about with Wes is that you run out of classes to take. At Brown, you've got four years of anything you want--at Wes there aren't as many options. The thing that sucks about Brown is it's a 17th century jungle of ornate buildings and no real parks or forest--just a sprawling complex of brilliant studnets and fancy prestige.</p>
<p>I only know of one Wes student who ever felt the need to transfer for lack of enough courses to take and he was a special case; by sophomore year he had pretty much exhausted every course on The Holocaust that Wes offered; and that's what he wanted to major in-- "Holocaust Studies", or something like that. So, in spite of having the late Philip Hallie, who's book "Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed" is considered a classic text, available as a thesis advisor, this student transferred to Cornell where admitedly, there were a few more courses on Nazis, antisemitism and anti-fascism. Obviously, if you're enough of a die-hard for a particular academic specialty and insist that tutorials, and other kinds of independent study aren't enough to fulfill your needs, transfer may make sense; but, that's a far cry from running out of easy, undemanding courses which is sometimes the other rationale given for going to a larger school.</p>
<p>Although I'm going to Brown next year, I actually preferred Wesleyan's course catalog. I found the courses at Wesleyan to be almost as numerous and more interesting than those at Brown.</p>
<p>hey can any of you post your stats and whether or not you applied early decision, or what wes is giving you??? its definitly top of my list for next year...</p>
<p>Greenmoon:
Good SATs (800M, 790V) but low grades (outside of top 10%... lots of AP classes, but junior year had a B or B- average in them, which meant getting Ds for marking periods at times.) EIC of newspaper, co-founder of Amnesty International, other clubs... so good ECs. Essays were only so-so. And I applied early decision and got in :)</p>
<p>sunkist: w00t for wesleyan!!</p>
<p>About course catalogue: What are you talking about? There are a gazillion options, I could fill myself up on courses to take for far more than four years...</p>