Campus Culture

JerseyGirl2001
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:37:29 +0000

My daughter and I visited Wesleyan recently and loved it. It would probably be a reach school for her and would only have a good shot at getting in if she applied early decision. The counselor that we have been working with does not think that Wesleyan would be the right fit for my daughter, who attends a small, all girls inner-city parochial school. Although my daughter is fairly liberal minded, she has lived a fairly conservative lifestyle and that is not expected to change. The counselor thought that there would not be enough students that were like her to find the right group of friends. The counselor has mentioned numerous times the the drug and sex culture on campus as problems. I have read the Washington Post articles involving the Molly overdoses that occurred a few years ago and do find them troubling; however, of the 13 schools that we have visited in the last year, we still like Wesleyan the best. So what are the students like generally at Wesleyan? Are drugs a normal way of life? Are students who don’t party or hook up in the minority? Are almost all of the students coming from privileged backgrounds?