<p>Wesleyan is one of my top choices for next year (maybe even ED), but I'm just curious as to the success rate of its grads in finding placement in grad/prof school. What sort of law or grad schools do former Wesleyan kids attend ?</p>
<p>Check the Wesleyan University career resource center (CRC) website. Wesleyan has an amazing grad school acceptance rate in fact they are #2 among the top tier LACs in producing Ph.Ds and get into many of the top law schools in the nation (look at the acceptance list for law on the CRC site it's really impressive all the Ivy's are there). 80% of their graduating class goes onto grad school within 5 years of graduation and Wesleyan is ranked #1 among it's liberal arts peers in receiving federal funding for scientific research. I recently graduated from Wesleyan and applied to medical school and received several interview offers and was accepted with full scholarship to a competitive American medical school. From talking to admissions counselors I was informed that Wesleyan students have a really strong reputation of succeeding in graduate schools. I highly recommend the school. I loved it there. I wish I could go back for another 4 years.</p>
<p>Wow, that was an awesome-sounding post, Yellowtibby!! Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>I actually asked this when I went to a Q&A session at Wesleyan. Also, I've seen it somewhere in some packet. For the most part, the acceptance rates for grad school hover around 85% (+/-). Some years the acceptance rate for law school has been 100%. </p>
<p>My input- These next few years will be more competitive than usual because of the lack of availability in the job market. (College grads are going to turn to academia instead.)</p>
<p>Wow... 100%? That's insane, lol. I'd like to know the acceptance rate for top law schools, like Harvard, Yale, etc.</p>
<p>Check out this site, it lists Wes as one of the top feeder schools: <a href="http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf</a></p>
<p>come here if you slacked HS and need to hunker down in the middle of nowhere to get a high GPA for law school. work hard and dream about life after wes. the people here are predominantly dumb as rocks</p>
<p>um, what?
wes is one of the best schools in the country. i seriously doubt that it's for slackers or dumb people (someone else please confirm, put my mind at ease). maybe that's just you? i know i personally have worked my ass off in high school,
probably more than is healthy.</p>
<p>I second flying pig and seeing the caliber of kids who have gone / going / applying to wes, I would think its one of the most progressive institutions in the US.</p>
<p>I think Mr. Pimpateer is judging everyone by the stds of Westco (a dorm for mixed classes) where hiding your light beneath a bushel was <em>de rigeur</em> -- especially, during fire safety sweeps. :D</p>
<p>The dumb and slacking don't get in. If they do slip through the admissions net, they don't survive long. If they do somehow hang on, they rationalize their weaknesses by bashing others.</p>
<p>@norolimasfaloth</p>
<p>"one of the most progressive institutions in the us?" yeah, it is, but being progressive hardly means being higher quality and/or home to brighter people</p>
<p>@prefrosh</p>
<p>you're implying that I'm dumb and a slacker. i'm neither.</p>
<p>Mr. Pimpateer, I don't know what kind of world you've been living in. Even in WestCo, the people I've met at Wesleyan have been the most intelligent, most intellectual (in a genuine, not pretentious, way) and most thoughtful individuals I've ever encountered.</p>
<p>"Even in WestCo, the people I've met at Wesleyan have been the most intelligent, most intellectual (in a genuine, not pretentious, way) and most thoughtful individuals I've ever encountered."</p>
<p>utterly false. completely, utterly, totally false.</p>
<p>well, it's true for me. either we have extremely different perceptions of people or you've met a lot of superintelligent people outside of Wesleyan.</p>
<p>that's correct. the intention was to point out to prospective freshmen that such differences of opinion exist</p>