Do you think that when someone disagrees with you that is equal to denying your experience? When you start a thread on a forum, you have to expect that some people may disagree with you … have a different perspective … . Where are all these “many other students” who are extraordinarily unhappy? Why aren’t they posting comments? Are you their appointed spokesperson? I want to hear from them. It’s easy to create an account and post comments anonymously.
In fact, colleges cannot be all things to all students. Not every student who wants a research position in a small college will get one, because it’s a small college. Did you reach out to the professors in your chosen department(s) and ask them if they had something for you to do?
When you realized you were unhappy with your first adviser, did you ask for another one?
What did you do to be proactive, to assertively try and create a better academic situation for yourself?
Did you reach out to the head of the department to describe your experience with the visiting professor?
It’s easy to complain and especially after the fact, but takes more character to advocate for yourself in the moment. There are many courses of action: meetings with professors and administrators as soon as you realize you’re not getting what you’re paying for, circulate a petition for change, post on forums like this one in mass. I assure you that even a small but vocal group with valid well thought out and expressed complaints will be listened to. The mission of colleges is to serve their students and society. But like all institutions, colleges are flawed and may be blind to specific issues. Sometimes you have to ‘get in their face in mass’ to be heard.
All we have is your ‘subjective perception’ of Wooster. Let’s here some facts: Exactly how many unhappy students are we talking about? What precisely are they dissatisfied with? Exactly how many professors and administrators have rejected students attempts to advocate a better academic situation for themselves? How many times have administrators rejected students efforts to get a new adviser or improve their situation in other ways? How many complains about professors are ignored?