Campus Culture

circuitrider
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:02:35 +0000

Wesleyan has approximately 3000 students. About 25% of them are varsity athletes. Another 20% are STEM majors. The incoming first year class will probably be around 20% First Gen. IOW, think, numerically speaking, your daughter’s chances of finding a cross section of students with fairly conventional personal habits are just as strong as they would be at smaller NESCAC colleges like Amherst, Bowdoin and Bates. What sets Wesleyan apart from those other schools is the large number of professionally minded performing artists who are attracted to it, and who perhaps give it a reputation for being “artsy” even though I’m not aware of any evidence linking the arts to drug taking or risky sexual behavior among young people. To the contrary, having safe, healthy alternatives to drinking alone in a dorm room on a cold New England Saturday night, IMHO, is the best protection your child could have against falling into unsafe recreational habits.