<p>My thanks again, everyone!</p>
<p>Luigi and UT, I really appreciate what you guys had to say. Made me feel a lot better, actually, and I’m starting to feel excited about going to Wes again (I ended up sticking with ED).</p>
<p>To answer your question, Luigi, by “inconsistent” financial aid, I really just meant not the best financial aid. With tuition rising and whatnot, I know that the costs of a Wesleyan education are high. That said, my estimated aid package (estimate b/c my family hasn’t finished their tax returns yet) was not bad at all, so things are looking okay financially. </p>
<p>And to try to answer all of your questions, busdriver (which I really shouldn’t be doing, since I haven’t really been a student yet) the marijuana scene, while strong, is certainly not something that your son wouldn’t be able to abstain from–just as johnwesley explained. I get the sense that weed is just very visible at Wesleyan, not that it’s consumed by an overwhelmingly higher proportion of students than at any other artsy, liberal, fairly wealthy liberal arts college. With regards to political matters, I’ve HEARD (again, please note that you’re hearing this like second or third-hand) that while conservatives might feel alienated by the general sentiment of the student body or of certain professors (really this will be the case at the vast majority of elite schools–there’s no getting around that), there is a strong, active and vocal chapter of college Republicans, and most of them feel they are treated civilly. </p>
<p>But really…visit. Visiting is the absolute best thing you can do when trying to decide between schools. It’s what sold me on Wesleyan and steered me away from other places that, on paper, I thought I’d love.</p>