<p>Have any comments on the two? i just got off the waitlist of Haverford and they need a decision soon. I've visited Wesleyan and I was impressed. The lack of a formal visit to Haverford will play a large role, but the community being as small as it is, is appealing.</p>
<p>Can you point me in some direction?</p>
<p>What are your interests?</p>
<p>If you are good with a small community feel, a really strong honor code, and don’t mind losing some sleep for your academics, you can’t go wrong with Haverford</p>
<p>i plan to double major in economics and classics.
my concern is the social scene at haverford.
any input on this topic?</p>
<p>someone just got murdered at wesleyan. if that helps your decision, concerning safety maybe. then again, there was an armed intruder at swarthmore (which is like a mile away from haverford) so you should consider that too…</p>
<p>sorry to be so glum and pessimistic…</p>
<p>Close, but i would say . . . Haverford. Is there any way you can go there? It has a beautiful campus.</p>
<p>i’m visiting on friday, but they are having finals so i won’t be able to see much. i might speak to some professors and walk around campus. that would be my tour. i’m really on the edge, Haverford just took me off the waitlist.</p>
<p>I’d say Haverford, it has a beautiful campus (maybe not in the winter to some, but I think it looks nice), it has great faculty, it has amazing facilities, and it has the consortium with Bryn Mawr, Upenn, and Swarthmore.</p>
<p>While Haverford has exceptionally few crime issues (especially given the Honor Code), I don’t think you can let the tragedy at Wesleyan count against them. I think at both schools you’re more likely to slip on some leaves and drop your laptop than have it stolen.</p>
<p>Consider the high percentage of faculty members residing on campus as a check in the Go Haverford column. Consider the weather in a Middle Atlantic State and easy access to Philly/and DC…depends on your idea of geographic pluses. Weigh…small Ford vs rather large Wesleyan LAC numbers for both pros and cons.<br>
Can’t speak to Wes, but the Ford kids are extremely polite/supportive of each other.</p>
<p>I have no idea how an honor code has anything to do with crime nor how faculty members living on campus has any correlation to a student’s success. </p>
<p>I also don’t see how a 29 year-old unaffiliated male who met some poor young woman in a NYU summer class reflects on Wesleyan. Billions of people in this world, unfortunately bad things happen. </p>
<p>As far as your decision, two fine peer schools it really gets down to fit. </p>
<p>To me it’s analogous to a woman selecting lovers. Does she go with the person that tells her he cares, calls her up and sets up a date or does she go with the sexy mysterious guy she flirted with in a dark bar who finally calls her? </p>
<p>Colleges calling wait list candidates can be a bit like the ‘bad boy’ that finally calls. It’s quite seductive in that ‘if he didn’t call he must really be special’ kind of odd logic. Now, you’re thinking of selecting a school you’ve never seen in an active session. </p>
<p>So, do you go with the school that you know and loves you or do you go with the school your heart is now beating loudly for?</p>
<p>Wesleyan is artsy, progressive and liberal, very. Haverford is a little jocky I heard?</p>
<p>Both schools are superb. The only thing that I believe weighs slightly in Haverford’s favor is that students have access to classes at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and (if not taught at any of those three) the University of Pennsylvania. You get all the library facilities as well. This can come in awfully handy. Two introductory microeconomics courses with the same name can be entirely different courses, depending on the views of the professor; the same with two courses in Latin American politics or modern Chinese history, or political theory, or whatever. And even if the material covered in the courses is the same, you may find that you have problems with one or another of the professors, or that the professor has problems with you.
Nonetheless, Wesleyan has an impressive course list, an excellent faculty and great students. You can’t really go wrong. You have two excellent choices!</p>
<p>bcash says “Wesleyan is artsy, progressive and liberal, very. Haverford is a little jocky I heard?”<br>
Gee, I (knowing little of Wesleyan) would have thought exactly the opposite. Haverford is artsy, progressive and liberal, very, and I would not think of it as jocky. Haverford prefers Division 3 athletics to Division 1 (as does Wesleyan, I believe), preferring sports in which everybody can take part rather than win-at-any-cost attitudes that prevail in Division 1. The school emphasizes its Quaker origins, and its school mascot, the black squirrel. Both are featured in the tee-shirt on sale at the campus store reading “Peace Love Squrrels.”</p>
<p>Then again, Haverford students report that when the Haverford Black Squirrels defeat teams like the Lions or the Tigers (as they often do), the other team is humiliated at being beaten by the squirrels, the black squirrels, the ferocious black squirrels. (The reason for the black squirrel being selected for the college teams is the presence of a large family, more like a colony by now, of black squirrels on the Haverford campus.)</p>