<p>i am interested in wesleyan but i have a ton of questions!
first of all, i'm interested in history, english, and music (for minoring, lessons, and ensembles. i play flute and piano so how are the profs?). i would love to do a study-abroad and continue taking german classes. so how much freedom is there to sign up for elective type classes, like one german class? what is a typical student like (and for some reason i think of students being really extroverted and i was just wondering if that was true)? is it easy to get involved? how is financial aid? what is there to do over the weekend? i'm not much of a partier so i hope that isn't a problem. how is the town--is there much to do there and a cultural scene? i am a city girl, but i guess i can adjust. also, has anyone had experience with their IB policy? any last words about the sort of culture and life at wesleyan? and any hints for admittance? thanks</p>
<p>Wesleyan is one of the few places I know where you can get credit for private lessons:
<a href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/privatelessonsprogram.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/privatelessonsprogram.html</a></p>
<p>There's an extensive Study Abroad program and I see no reason why someone would not be able to take an elective course in advanced German (but, I'm no expert and there are websites for those kinds of questions.)</p>
<p>As for the social scene, I think Wesleyan draws a happy medium; it's not a suitcase school; people pretty much stick around for the weekends. But, it's not a "rah, rah" kind of place either. You learn pretty early on that you are part of a very large, somewhat flinty, working-class neighborhood that has co-existed with the college for nearly 100 years. It colors the politics (Wesleyan students helped organize the janitorial workers there) and it colors the social scene (there's very little loud music after midnight--even on the weekends.) Discretion goes a long way in Middletown.</p>
<p>Middletown itself has an increasing number of good places to eat; and some of them can be included in your Wesleyan meal plan. There is a multiplex on Main Street for people who can't bear to miss a blockbuster (which may even have been written or directed by an alum.) The one drawback is that very few places (other than Dunkin' Donuts) seem stay open late at night when the movies let out. For that sort of thing, you still have to go to New Haven or Hartford.</p>
<p>I think extroversion is a trait that a lot of kids at Wes have, but it's also hard to pin down a typical student. For example, there's a pretty large international student contingent that sometimes is socially reclusive (which I mostly believe is the result of being a non-native speaker in a fast-moving English-speaking environment), but there are exceptions to that too.</p>
<p>Anyway, despite Wesleyan's external reputation for drug use, I wouldn't call it a party school. As a fellow "non-partier" I'd say it's actually a rather amenable place to that type of attitude. Regardless of what others might say, that's been my experience (although sometimes it takes a while to find your niche).</p>
<p>About foreign language - I'm a science major and I took a lot of elective upper-division French classes. Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to do a semester abroad but I'm trying to swing some kind of summer or post-grad thing over there. I know a lot of people who've done that. The options are quite plentiful. Wesleyan/Vanderbilt/Wheaton (MA) runs a program in Regensburg, Germany that a lot of people, including a close friend of mine, really liked.</p>
<p>I've come to appreciate M-town, especially after being at Williams this summer. It's a medium-to-small-sized city. It's not NYC or Boston, and the mass transit leaves something to be desired, but Main St. is nice and is slowly adapting to the somewhat bourgeois tastes of the student body.</p>
<p>Also, Athenian Diner is open 24/7. If you go there at 3 am it's loaded with Wes students.</p>
<p>hEY, i have seen your reply to the previous question about Welseyan. I am interested in comging to the college. Can you tell me more about the culture in Welseyan? Like: How is the relationship between the professors and the students? How are the students like in the college,friendly, cooperative or competitive? What is the school strong at? How is the safety of the area the school is located?
Thanks for helping me with the above questions!</p>