Middlebury vs. Wesleyan

TheGreyKing
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 23:10:10 +0000

What a wonderful choice you have! I don’t think you can go wrong here. They both share the best characteristics of top small liberal arts colleges. Visiting both should help you decide which “feels” best to you.

Our family visited and loved both colleges.

I did not feel an elitist vibe to Midd. And I give Midd credit for this— of all the colleges we visited, Midd seemed the most socially integrated in daily life. At both meals we ate on campus, the dining room tables had an interesting mix of students of different races, and of people in athletic uniforms and people cross-dressed and people nerdsy looking, eating at the same table and talking to one another and having a great time. At other schools, there might be a table with a lot of black students and another with a lot of Asian students and another with a lot of sports team members. To us, it looked like students at Midd can really get to know and become good friends with students from different backgrounds from themselves.

The two schools do “feel” different. It is great that you will be visiting both. That should help you decide. If you do not like your student host for any reason, be sure to interact with some other students so that you get a real sense of each school. And you also might reach out to the president of any Latino student organization to ask some of your questions.

Good luck and congratulations on having such fantastic options!