Help me compare Wesleyan and Tufts

mini
Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:23:49 +0000

I do understand the co-ed thing, and it was an issue until my d. visited. Then the quality of the place took over. Amherst has no Italian - students try to take the courses at Smith, but this is one place where it is often difficult to use the 5-college exchange (my d. reports), because Smith wants to ensure that it will fill up its JYA program in Florence with Smithies. Lots of Amherst folks come over to Smith for art history, which is far more extensive. The town is awesome. Lots of team sports (amuses my d. no end - she is a “noun”, but has friends on the crew team (though she is part of a very active outdoors club.)

Needless to say, there are tradeoffs to be made everywhere. But if I were to add together Italian, Art History, studio art, college town, and women’s athletics, I don’t think any of the other places your d. is considering would be comparable (and we visited most of them.)

Here’s a nice article published today in the Times on NOHO.