<p>yeah, what an odd comment.
A campus-centered liberal arts college is potentially a template for a “traditional college experience”. </p>
<p>I guess that can be excused if someone’s framework for a “traditional college experience” was Columbia, but others would differ.</p>
<p>As between a Wesleyan and some others , the main differences to me would be the types of people participating in this college experience. Smaller schools like this tend to have pronounced predominant campus cultures that can make a big difference for whether one likes it a lot there. If you like to guzzle beer, play sports, join a fraternity and get a job on Wall street, maybe you’d be happier socially at a school where 80% of the students share your personality profile. Rather than one where only 20% of the students are like that, and the largest 40% want to go to the peace corps then go to law school to work for non-profits, or do film in LA. But that doesn’t in itself mean the campus experience itself is “untraditional”, it’s more that you prefer your particular cohort of like-minded people undertakling that experience to the cohort at the other school.</p>