<p>I am looking at schools for next year and I liked OWU's profile. I was wondering if there were any colleges like Wesleyan? LACs or fairly small Universities only. </p>
<p>Also, has anyone been to the Ohio Wesleyan's admission events? If so, I'd love to hear your impressions. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Check out other North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) schools such as Allegheny, College of Wooster, Denison, and Kenyon. They all have very good academic reputations.</p>
<p>Thanks, Wolfman! They seem pretty similar academically. How do they compare in terms of their students?</p>
<p>I agree with Wolfman about Kenyon, Wooster and Denison. Probably Denison is the one that's most resembles Ohio Wesleyan in a lot of aspects. Denison is slightly bigger, a bit more selective as of late, much less internationally diverse and a lot more greek-life than OWU. Don't know much about Allegheny. There are other schools that are similar in academic and students' profile to OWU...I was reading the PR suggestions for cross-applicants: Gettysburg College in PA, Haverford College in PA and Oberlin College in OH, Hamilton College in NY and Wheaton College in MA. I was a bit surprised that Oberlin and Wesleyan share applicants because OWU is not as ultra-liberal (or at least that's the reputation of Oberlin's students) as Oberlin though pretty liberal in general.</p>
<p>OWU is far more Greek than DENISON. OWU's athletic emphasis is similar to Denison, Allegheny, Wooster and Wittenberg. OWU's selectivity has slipped of late. Endowment is a huge concern as well in
Newark these days. OWU is now a third tier school while Denison's tremendous surge in apps these last two years-it just cracked 5000 in 2005 is evidence of its increasing popularity and stronger academic student population.</p>
<p>Two other similar Ohio schools are Wittenberg and Wooster.</p>
<p>Greek participation is about the same for both schools: </p>
<p>From the PR site... </p>
<p>Ohio Wesleyan University students in greek organizations is 34%</p>
<p>Denison University students in greek organizations is 31%</p>
<p>One thing that is important about Denison relative to Greek life. The frats and sororities are not allowed to live together. They are just mixed in the dorms. There are no "frat houses" or "frat floors." So they function more like casual clubs. I think they tried to get rid of them all together, but it is illegal to impede free fraternization or something like that. Now all the old frat houses are just dorms open by the regular lottery system, and a couple are freshman only.</p>