The rap I hear repeated most often by current Wesleyan students is that its career services office devotes too much time prepping people for Wall Street jobs. Thanks to its reputation in the entertainment industry, 28% of all Wesleyan degrees conferred in the 2014-15 school year year were in either the visual or performing arts. The comparable figure for Middlebury is 6%; The arts give Wesleyan students things to do and places to go on weekends other than drinking alone in their rooms, and naturally, it’s the arts oriented students who feel they need the most career help. For the record, Wesleyan participates in the same recruitment drives as Middlebury, Amherst, Bowdoin, Colgate, Williams, and Swarthmore, among other top colleges:
http://easterncollegecareerday.com/
https://myinterfase.com/frc/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2ffrc%2fstudent
On an overblown scale of 1 to 10 (1=Completely accurate, 10=Donald Trump style exaggeration, I’d give the internship thing a 5, meaning “true, but not for the reasons you think.”