colleges to transfer to from Wesleyan?

mollielie
Fri, 22 May 2015 05:54:17 +0000

@collegemom3717 Oof, really dug into the archives there. Oberlin was my original dream school and I looked at Brown bc my Ivy League alumni parents encouraged me to. Unfortunately I was lured in by the prestige and my parents’ ideas of academic superiority. It’s hard to say why exactly I’m unhappy at Wesleyan. Some concrete things include the Greek life-driven social scene, lack of a folk music scene, no environmental studies major, and general feeling of disdain towards activism. A lot of people say that some of my complaints may go against what you’ve heard about Wes, and believe me, I feel the same. Wesleyan is not the school I was expecting. Maybe I haven’t been associating with the right people but I feel like at the right school for me, the right people wouldn’t be difficult to find.

I know it seems like all of these schools are very similar, and they probably are. Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I’m also trying to be more open to non-LAC schools bc I’ve been criticized for only looking at small schools but they’re really the only schools I know anything about… so if anyone has ideas for liberal, artsy non-LACs with an environmental studies major and no Greek life, let me know.