Amherst vs. Wesleyan

monydad
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:59:00 +0000

If you’ve chosen your environment based on fit, and done it correctly, you will likely be more at home at the college you’ve selected, with more kindred spirits, than you are in the environment of your current school which you did not choose based on fit, in the part of the country that you did not choose based on fit.

We know many students from your neck of the woods who have ventured outwards, and have heard no reports of any negative experiences so far.

Actually, relatively few students from OPs area attend Oberlin. It is essentially an east coast school stuck a bit outside of the east coast. Oberlin is a good 14 hours away from OP; it is far closer to the east coast. some people who live near OP don’t even realize Ohio is even considered to be in the midwest.