<p>i'm wondering if anyone could give suggestions on safety schools for someone who's interested in wesleyan. i know that nowadays its hard to even come by a "safety" but.. if anyone has any suggestions please let me know!</p>
<p>skidmore.</p>
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<p>whats 10 char?</p>
<p>it's the shortcut for when ppl want to give one word answers AND fulfill the requirement that all posts be at least 10 characters long.</p>
<p>My safeties are Simmons, Skidmore, and UVM. Also Fairfield, but that's really not the same kind of school as Wesleyan at all (and thus I can't imagine myself there under any circumstance) so I don't think it's much of a suggestion.</p>
<p>Some other possible safeties for Wesleyan: Bard, Beloit, Lewis & Clark, Hampshire (maybe), Earlham, Goucher, Clark U. All have some of the same feel as Wes, although they are smaller.</p>
<p>where's goucher? i've never heard of it</p>
<p>Goucher is outside Baltimore, in Towson, MD.</p>
<p>i just looked up the website it looks like a really cool school thanks for the suggestion!!</p>
<p>My safeties were Suffolk (big safety), Hampshire, Wheaton (MA), Skidmore.</p>
<p>I also applied to Bard, but don't really consider that a safety?</p>
<p>Skidmore seems to be the ideal Wesleyan safety..</p>
<p>Emerson, Smith, UC Davis. Maybe I should've applied to Skidmore. Emerson and Smith are small schools that I wouldn't mind going to, but UC Davis, while big, suits my other interest (animal science).</p>
<p>A very interesting LAC that's sometimes overlooked is Dickinson in Pennsylvania. It probably doesn't have the liberal reputation that Wes and some of these others have, but it seems to have strong programs and an international focus.</p>
<p>I got into Wesleyan early, but if I hadn't I guess my safeties were Bard and Vassar. Not that these were truly safeties by any means, I guess they were just the schools that seemed to be on a slightly lower tier reputation-wise. My only true safety was my state school, and I really did not want to go there at all.</p>
<p>uhh my safety is NYU...perhaps a strange choice, but I've noticed a lot of similarities between the schools with regards to what I want - student body and such.</p>
<p>I agree with this; people often overlook the obvious similarities between Columbia, NYU and their "country cousins", Wesleyan and Vassar.</p>
<p>^I concur, having had one kid each at Columbia and Wesleyan.</p>
<p>I would add that the Big State U cousins would be, in my view , Berkeley and Michigan.</p>
<p>university of rochester was my safety (but wesleyan wasn't my first choice, so i dunno how relavant this is). UoR doesn't have a core curriculum, but is is 2x the size of wesleyan</p>
<p>hope this helps a little!</p>
<p>Well, garland and johnwesley, I'm with you on most things but not so sure about this Wesleyan/Columbia business. My D -- who is having the time of her life as a Wes frosh -- was put off by Columbia when she visited (and she loves NYC). Yes, Wesleyan has some of that NY intellectual buzz and style. But I think there's a meaningful difference in the schools' cultures: Columbia is more pre-professional, more competitive -- and perhaps a bit more preoccupied with not being H or Y than Wesleyan is about not being A or S. Obviously still a terrific school.</p>
<p>As for the original poster's question: My D's "safeties" would have been Skidmore and Occidental.</p>
<p>I dunno, Wesdad, when D was at Wes, the amount of anti-Amherst/williams t-shirts I saw was impressive (though I couldn't reproduce what they said in a family website.)</p>
<p>And, if you're truly pre-professional, there's no reason to put up with the Columbia Core; it exists for thinking for it's own sake. At least, that's how my couldn't-be-more-nonpreprofessional-if-he-tried S found it.</p>
<p>Oh, wait. He does want to be a professional poker player when he graduates....does that count?:)</p>
<p>I mean, why subject yourself to those classes unless that is what you're looking for? Penn would be so much more straightforward.</p>
<p>Edit: when D was a senior at Wes, she relaxed her anti-Ivy stance in favor of Columbia, announcing that that was "different."</p>
<p>In a completely unsolicited and unbiased post apropos the recent NYT article on "Rural Colleges Seeking Urban Edge" (#9) spaceball519, says:</p>
<p>"I'd say one school that has succeeded in becoming more "urban" is Wesleyan</p>
<p>When I visited there, I was surprised at how street-savvy(for lack of a better word), the students were, they seemed very metropolitan, for a small LAC in a middle class town"
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=297676%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=297676</a></p>