It’s difficult to advise someone who has no opportunity to visit either school except to say that whatever Wesleyan may lack in terms of location, it strives to make up for culturally, especially if you are South Asian.
https://www.wesleyan.edu/southasiastudies/
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2018/10/12/wesleyan-receives-major-grant-to-teach-hindi-and-urdu-expand-south-asian-programming/
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2019/05/06/consul-general-of-india-donates-india-corner-collection-to-wesleyan/
There are South Asian influences throughout Wesleyan’s music and dance programs. It has an entire building dedicated to housing its Indonesian gamelan.
I wouldn’t take the ranking differences seriously. Middlebury and other smaller LACs enjoy a statistical advantage over Wesleyan because USNews favors high per capita spending and Wesleyan is the largest LAC in NESCAC,