<p>Hello, the friendly people on the Wesleyan forum!</p>
<p>I am a waitlisted applicant, and I am trying to figure out if I still want to remain on Wesleyan's waitlist and take my chances. Claremont McKenna College in southern California, which admitted me, is really becoming more attractive to me every day, even though Wesleyan was one of my top choices.</p>
<p>To me the two schools share some common strengths (interdisciplinary social sciences program like CSS, film studies, research with faculty, healthy social life...)</p>
<p>Can someone give me some inputs? I would really appreciated any help. Comments on either thread is welcome.</p>
<p>Thanks! (I hope cross-posting is okay on CC..)</p>
<p>You’re in a fantastic position: you’ve already been admitted to a fantastic school and are w/l in two others. It’s really a matter of how obsessed you are with one place over another. You may not be interested in being in limbo for what are, in the end, mere nuances.</p>
<p>Middletown is everything you’ve ever heard about the East Coast: race/class divisions, great pizza, Borgia-like politics and its own canine police force (for a city of only 40,000.) In there, someplace, there’s also a great little university. </p>
<p>CMC is not too shabby in terms of what you are looking for either (just in a more boring town.) I would say unless you are obsessed with Wesleyan (you want to walk the same footpaths once trod by Michael Bay), start loving CMC and see what happens with your waitlist status.</p>
<p>CMC and Wesleyan are fairly different in terms of atmosphere and culture. I was thinking seriously about CMC (applied, interviewed, and all that) and really only realized CMC wasn’t right for me during the interview. My interviewer was awesome (she’d graduated the year before), and was really honest with me about what campus was like. The main thing that didn’t jive with me is that it’s actually a pretty politically conservative place - or at least, the most vocal people politically are pretty conservative. Now, that’s cool, and great for some people, but I didn’t think I personally would feel comfortable.</p>
<p>That said - great weather, and great academics, AND I do get the sense that political debate is huge there. Liberal or conservative, people like to talk about it. And it sounds like that’s right up your alley! If you like Wes better, stay on the waitlist (and send the adcom a little extra something to let them know you really want to be here and why you’re a great fit!)… but like others have said, you have a great choice ready for you, so you may as well let yourself fall in love with it if you can, because the waitlist is iffy.</p>