<p>Arrrrrrgh! I can't believe people sometimes...</p>
<p>It's understandable how people can get easily confused with Wellesley, but at the same time, I can understand where you're coming from as well.</p>
<p>"It sounds familiar. Isn't that in Massachusetts?"</p>
<p>Yup. I must admit, however much I love Wesleyan, it sucks that it doesn't have more name recognition :P</p>
<p>Or, do you mean the one in Ohio, or the one in Kansas, or the one....</p>
<p>My D heard both the girls school/Mass thing, and the one of those in "Insert State".</p>
<p>Why did all those other Wesleyans pop-up, by the way, if anyone knows? I know John Wesley was an influential man, but why so many Wesleyans?</p>
<p>They were all founded my Methodists, and Wesleyan (in Connecticut) was established first, so it got the original name, unqualified.</p>
<p>And interestingly, Wesleyan in CT is no longer a Methodist school, though I believe the rest are.</p>
<p>This from the Princeton Review message board:</p>
<p>"Wesleyan has one of the most colorful histories of any college in America. Founded in 1831 by followers of John Wesley, the English religious reformer, it was known mainly as the academic incubator through which the Methodist Church movement sustained its earliest period of intellectual and physical growth in the United States. Some thirty colleges, including Emory, Boston University, Dickinson, and Syracuse were founded by the Methodists during this time, many with substantial help from Wesleyan graduates. By the early 20th century, Wesleyan had relaxed its religious moorings to the point where it had become one of a small number of all-male, New England small colleges that generally resisted the growing "University movement" by reaffirming their commitment to small size and the molding of "character" as an integral part of a liberal arts education; they included Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin and Hamilton in nearby New York."</p>
<p>i was in boston recently for a scholarship interview, and we took the commuter rail out to worcester one day. we passed wellesley on the train, and it looks NOTHING like wesleyan. i dont understand how anyone who has done the least bit of college research can get the two confused. o well.</p>
<p>well I sometimes confuse wellesley and wesleyan. I very well know the differences between them, but I just can't seem to keep them straight in my head</p>
<p>lol fine......wesleyan is Not an all girls school. U can have it your way.</p>
<p>I go through this on a weekly basis when someone asks me if I my daughter knows where she is going to college. I find myself defending Wes, by saying that it's in Connecticut and is a highly selective school and no it's not all girls. I'm sooooo glad when I meet someone that actually knows about the school. You'd be surprised how many teachers never heard of it too!!!!</p>
<p>Maybe they were thinking of Wesleyan College in Macon, GA. It's an all-girls school.</p>
<p>Add to the mix the fact that Wesleyan started calling itself a "university" well before the term became corrupted to mean a huge, research institution of higher learning. It got lots of free, unsolicited, television mentions last year during the Patriots run-up to the Super Bowl (for those who don't know, Bill Bellichick is a member of the Class of 1975) and yet I would say in a majority of cases it was referred to as "Wesleyan College".</p>
<p>most of us in the Northeast don't know about Wesleyan College, the confustion is over Wellesley in Mass.</p>
<p>I think that, with LACs, certain people have contact with certain schools but no nothing about similar schools. For example, some people (with no connection to the school) RAVED about Wesleyan when I told them I was applying there, while others gave me blank stares but knew a lot about Oberlin or one of the other schools on my list. I've had very postive reactions and a lot of blank stares for each of my schools. It shouldn't matter to you what people think: what matters is that YOU know it's a good school, and that graduate schools and employers know that it's a good school.</p>
<p>Yeah I really agree to that ^.
I know a lot about Wesleyan, Kenyon, Grinnell and assorted other schools, but justabout nothing of Williams (a friend is going there- ED) and Amherst. It is an interesting conundrum.</p>