I was just wondering about the College of Social Studies. It seems like an awesome and rigorous program, but it seems like there isn't much room for flexibility (especially during sophomore year). By flexibility, I mean the ability to take a variety of classes. Is it possible to have another major outside of the CSS? On a different note, do students take weekend trips to NYC often?
Dear spainsummer11, the College of Social Studies (CSS) is a multidisciplinary major focusing on History, Government, Economics, and Political and Social Theory. Sophomore year in CSS is the most demanding, but for Junior and Senior years there are fewer required classes that you have to take. Therefore, there is time to take other classes and possibly fulfill another major.
The CSS major also requires you to fulfill the General Education Expectations both Stage 1 and Stage 2. This means that you are required to take classes outside of the Social and Behavioral Sciences and take classes that fall under the categories of Humanities and Arts and Natural Science.
Going to NYC is something very easy for students at Wesleyan to do (either by having a friend who has a car, or the train station in New Haven, Meriden or Hartford), but something that we rarely do. Wesleyan is certainly not a 'suitcase' school because there are so many awesome things going on during the weekends it makes you want to stay on campus! Right now we are currently on Fall Break (basically just a long weekend Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday off) and a lot of students take this time to got to NYC or Boston to visit friends or family or simply to spend time in a major city.
what is it like for transfer students at wes? does wesleyan take a great effort to help them seamlessly transition into the student body? does it ever seem like all the transfer students just hang out with one another?
I am interested in pre-med and I visited Wesleyan last week and I loved it. I am not a strong writer. I was just wondering if Wesleyans curriculum will allow me to take most of my classes math and scienced based. Also I wanted to learn more about the dorm life. Can you request a particular dorm? I really liked Clark Hall since it is right next to the science facility? How different is each dorm from one another. Does every dorm have co-ed bathrooms? Can you choose your roommate?
boiling wax: Wesleyan does take a great effort and interest in helping transfer students seamlessly transition into the student body. All new students (first years, transfers, international students) come back about a week earlier than the rest of the campus. This is for our orientation program, but it also gives new students the opportunity to meet each other and get acclimated to campus before the rest of the student body arrives. I have two transfer students on my hall this year and they both rave about how easy it was for them to meet people and develop friendships within that first week of orientation. I feel that the Wesleyan community as a whole is very welcoming and that certainly extends itself to transfer students.
Luckycharm007: I think the response you will get most often is the fact that there is not a ‘typical Saturday night’ for the same reason that there is not a ‘typical’ Wesleyan student. It really depends what you are involved with—dance, theater, poetry, sports, frats, food. The point that I would like to emphasize is that there are a TON of things going on every night of the week, not just on the weekends and our schedules fill up quite fast. I am a winter athlete so my weekend is spent traveling to other NESCAC schools, staying over in hotels, team bonding, and competitions, then when I return to campus usually on Saturday nights I try and spend time with friends who are not on my team. My weekends and weeknights are very different from students who do not play sports, but I think the commonality between them is the fact that students are so active.
Check out Wesleying for just a glimpse of some of the events going on around campus.
Luckycharm007: I think the response you will get most often is the fact that there is not a ‘typical Saturday night’ for the same reason that there is not a ‘typical’ Wesleyan student. It really depends on what you are involved with—dance, theater, poetry, sports, frats, food. The point that I would like to emphasize is that there are a TON of things going on every night of the week, not just on the weekends and our schedules fill up quite fast. I am a winter athlete so my weekend is spent traveling to other NESCAC schools, staying over in hotels, team bonding, and competitions, then when I return to campus usually on Saturday nights I try and spend time with friends who are not on my team. My weekends and weeknights are very different from students who do not play sports, but I think the commonality between them is the fact that students are so active.
Check out Wesleying for just a glimpse of some of the events going on around campus.
Freshpowder: Since Wesleyan has an open curriculum you are free to choose the classes that you want to take, and not be restricted by any ‘required’ courses. We do have General Education expectations, however, and these simply say that you need to take three classes in each of the three divisions: Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. It is very easy to find classes in each of these divisions that are not writing intensive, but it may be advantageous for you to take a few classes that are writing intensive especially if you identify it as one of your weak areas. About 80% of our students fulfill the General Education expectations, but there are some students who wish to only study in the areas that they feel most passionately about. Nothing will be held against you if you do not fufill the Gen Ed’s but if you wish to only have a math/science based education that would be possible here. You do run the risk of oversubscription, however, and that is another reason why it is a good idea to take a broad and diverse range of classes.
Clark and Fauver Residence halls are the two all-freshman dormitories on campus. Both Clark and Fauver are favorites for freshman year because they have air conditioning, Clark is newly renovated, and Fauver is the newest dorm on campus. You would also be living in a double if you chose to live in Clark or Fauver. At the beginning of every semester the RA’s hold a blind vote of whether we will have gender neutral bathrooms or not. My freshman year I lived in Fauver, and we had separate sex bathrooms, this year I am living in Hewitt and we have gender neutral bathrooms. I have to admit it was a little weird at first, but now I don’t even notice. As for roommates, the summer before your freshman year if you know who you would like to live with, you can each request to live with each other. However, if you do not have someone you would like to live with then you will be placed with someone randomly (or you will get a single). Wesleyan used to have surveys and attempted to pair roommates up through that system, but one year they decided to try pairing roommates randomly and there were the fewest amount of requests to change rooms than ever before. I was placed with my roommate last year randomly and we couldn’t be more opposites, but we are still best friends to this day.
Hello current student of Wesleyan University, I feel like I am a perfect fit for Wes (as I have tried to express it in my essays/interview). However, I have a low GPA (around 3.4 unweighted). How badly would that hurt my chances and do you think the office of admission would reject me base solely on that? Thanks for answering!
Hey my name is caylin i am 16 years old and i have wanted to go to this school for ever! im currently vice present of my somphore class, leader of my track team, and in the honors roll society, and have won an award for track, im in the top 10% of my class i was needing to know what else can i do to make sure i get in this school!!!!!thank you
