<p>After reading this article, I can’t help but being alarmed. <a href=“The Wesleyan Argus | To the admitted students”>The Wesleyan Argus | To the admitted students;
<p>Here is a few line I quoted from the article:</p>
<p>Most colleges will spend a lot of time telling you what is so wonderful and unique and incredible about them – that’s what this literal “Wesleyan Festival” is designed for: to convince you all that this is the perfect place for you to spend your college years.</p>
<p>But here’s the thing: this is far from a perfect place.</p>
<p>This is a place where your legitimacy as a student might be questioned daily based on your race.</p>
<p>This is a place where, depending on how much money your family has, you might not even be offered admission at all. Take a good hard look around you while you’re here, and think about the fully qualified students who aren’t here.</p>
<p>This is a place where sexual assault happens, frequently, and is then dismissed.</p>
<p>This is a place where cultural norms permit violence against and violations of the space and well-being of women, trans* students, students of color, queer students, and many others marginalized groups.</p>
<p>This is a place where the administration targets trans* student activists for punishment.</p>
<p>This is a place that provides a lush material environment for its students with dividends from investments in coal and oil, weapons, agribusiness, and predatory banks.</p>
<p>This is a place that stands by and feigns helplessness as its subcontracted custodial firm is overworked and that intimidates the people (many of them poor people of color, women, immigrants) who maintain the campus.</p>
<p>This is a place that institutionalizes class divisions between students and between the university and the surrounding community.</p>
<p>I’m an international student who is waitlisted at Wesleyan. I’m torn between going to Wesleyan on an unaided basis and attending Colorado College with about 20k of financial aid. I am not sure to what extent the issues identified above are true? Thank you in advance for your information.</p>