<p>My first choice, almost-practically-dream school, is Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conneticut.</p>
<p>So obviously, I've already researched the school. I know that it excells in East Asian studies (which I am very interested in), liberal arts, music, film, and the biochemistry subjects. However, I have not visited Wesleyan yet, so all I know about it are it's academics and what it says on the website.</p>
<p>So, could anyone who researched/knows/goes to Wesleyan tell me more about the housing, it's location, and anything extra special about the school?</p>
<p>The town is not great. But, the campus is and most kids focus their time on-campus. Post on the Wes forum, as suggested- try hard to get opinions from current or former students. Check the study abroad program.</p>
<p>There’s a whole book that follows the admissions officers at Wesleyan for like a year called The Gatekeepers. You might have already read it, but if you haven’t and you really really like Wesleyan you my want to give it a try. Might give you an edge.</p>
<p>I live next to Wesleyan & have often used their library for research. This is a small city. Curriculum wise I am not honestly impressed by the depth of courses here. It does have a decent library, tiny campus (within a square). Very liberal school. Wesleyan attracts people from outside CT & that’s what makes up its student body. As I said, I have often perused its catalog searching for grad geology & astronomy courses & there a few pickings for the pickin so it does make me wonder about the rest of the majors.</p>
<p>Both my Ds visited Wesleyan. D1 loved it: small LAC (though bigger than some), very academically/intellectually oriented but very artsy, too, a politically engaged liberal/progressive student body, just her cup of tea. It would have been her second or third choice, but she was admitted to her first choice, Haverford, in the ED round, so she never even applied.</p>
<p>D2 didn’t like it at all. Maybe partly because D1 did, and they seem to need to distinguish themselves from each other on almost everything, but there’s more to it than that. I think partly she just didn’t like the layout of the campus, but the biggest thing was her info session was with the director of admissions and a student who happened to be president of his fraternity, who wanted to talk about Greek life on campus. The admissions director tried to say there are Greek organizations but they’re not real Greek organizations, more like community service clubs under Greek names, and the two of them got into a big debate over whether there is or is not a real Greek presence on campus, and D2 said, 'Who needs it?" To her, Greek life is a big turn-off, so if it’s even a debatable question she’s not interested.</p>
<p>Your criteria may be completely different. </p>
<p>FWIW, I found downtown Middletown actually quite charming.</p>