<p>Colorado College provides an analogue for Wesleyan: $200,000</p>
<p>Grinnell should have been included because it stands out: $880,000.</p>
<p>Wesleyan needs to get a new kicker. He cost them the win against Amherst today. DisgracefullâŠ</p>
<p>Youâre the guy from the Posse Veterans program, right, Specops? Hope youâre having a great time at Wes so far! </p>
<p>Is Wes the only LAC that doubled its student body when it went coed? </p>
<p>@circuit riderâAll the top LACs have become more selective, making that change largely irrelevant. I transferred in, and the acceptance rate for transfers was LOW and need-aware (my family had no $). Not sure what it was then, but itâs ~5% now.</p>
<p>An amusing reflection on Bowdoin versus Wesleyan: as I mentioned before, the jocks at Bowdoin were quite a bit kinder and more intelligent that at Wes, but the oppression studies majors (I write this tongue in check, being so far left I fall off) there were even more humorless and ever-vigilant for microaggressions than at Wes. Also, we were instructed to refer to our female classmates as âwomen,â which seemed ridiculous. We were 16-18 kids, neither men nor women, and it seemed to heavy handed. I guess that was the heyday of cartoonish PC.</p>
<p>wesleyan97 - so far Wes has been a great experience, although I am having to work really really hard to hang with these kids after such a long break in school. The administration and alumni have been awesomely supportive. Even the student body for the most part seems excited to have us here. Nothing negative to report as of yet. </p>
<p>To be more on topic, for what its worth the impression I get on the ground is that Wesleyan was mismanaged for while but is now back on track to improve. Fundraising is up and a real effort is being made to improve the career center by bringing recruiters on campus and offer students more exit ops after graduation. A big improvement from being formerly located in the basement in the Butts. The whole need-aware thing is kind of â â â â â â but I get why Roth did it. Gotta keep up with those USNWR rankings and their emphasis on endowment!!!</p>
<p>Wesleyan transfer rate â~5%â . . . Is that a typo? Numbers from the website indicate about 25%:</p>
<p>155 accepted out of 600 âplusâ applied = 25.8-% = ~25% </p>
<p>Yeah, that number seemed off to me. Got it from a unigo-type site (not unigo though). </p>
<p>Hmm,not sure why it asterisked u<em>n</em>i<em>g</em>o.</p>
<p>@SpecOpsRiggerâ So happy to hear itâs going well for you. Ah, the Butts⊠I lived in Butt A or B second year, whichever one had the Kosher kitchen (which may be long gone). </p>
<p>@SpecOpsRiggerâ: USNWR does not weigh, or perhaps even know, the endowments of the schools it ranks. It appears your school is simply being fiscally conservative in its choice to limit spending on some programs. </p>
<p>@wesleyan97: CC may have blocked that site because it appears commercial. Mentioning it can then be a type of unpaid ad.</p>
<p>@wesleyan97â
Not irrelevant at all. Wesleyan has largely kept up with its competition - you just admitted it. For example, Amherstâs selectivity has gone from 20% to about 14% in recent years, a trifle less than Wesleyanâs improvement. The main difference has been that applicants who chose Wesleyan tended to be less obsessed with its Useless Spending News rankings, while applicants like yourself have tended to self-select for Amherst.</p>
<p>@circuitrider: Iâve wondered what the long-term effect of that can be. Can many students at the âtop-rankedâ college eventually be there for no other reason than because the school is top-ranked? What a miserable place that would be . . .</p>
<p>@circuitriderâ Your capacity for spin, in your incarnations as johnwesley and circuitrider, is truly vertiginous. Look at the schools Amherst loses admitted students toâHarvard, Yale, Princeton, Williams, Swarthmore, Columbia, versus those that students who opt against Wesleyan go to. Petty preoccupation with rankings may matter to those kids, as it does to pretty much all who apply to Wes (most of whom would have preferred Brown), but putting aside their scores and grades (which at this point seem uniformly high at most good schoolsâjust the narcissism of minor differences; except our students in top 10%, which always seems low)âtheir EC accomplishments seem far closer to HYPS students than those at Wes. </p>
<p>The kids at AWSP and Bowdoin gain admission into tippety-top professional schools and PhD programs and are tapped for IB jobs (evil though they may be) at a far, far, far higher rate than Wes students. This disparity has increased with time. </p>
<p>Iâm glad merci81 mentioned Hamiltonâs writing initiative, of which I had been unaware; thatâs the kind of nuts-and-bolts rigor we need more of at Wes. That wouldnât mean losing all the fruitiness we know and love about the schoolâwho doesnât enjoy banging away on Indonesian metallophones?âbut it would ensure that ALL students graduate with the most fundamental of skills. </p>
<p>Endowment may not be weighted directly in the USNWR rankings, but it is a factor.</p>
<p><a href=âhttp://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2013/02/07/decline-in-endowments-may-affect-best-colleges-rankingsâ>http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2013/02/07/decline-in-endowments-may-affect-best-colleges-rankings</a></p>
<p>Sue22: I appreciate that and did read the site. Yes, a higher endowment can increase a collegeâs rankings because it can be used to increase spending. My point, though minimally stated, was that an endowment cannot be MANIPULATED to increase rankings. Mathematically, SPENDING-DOWN the endowment would directly increase a collegeâs rankings for as long as that could be sustained</p>
<p>Sorry about the caps â seems like Iâm SHOUTING â not sure how or if I can use italics.</p>