<p>I love the atmosphere of Wesleyan, but it’s kind of small for me. What schools are similar to Wesleyan but slightly bigger (preferably less than 10,000)?</p>
<p>Probably Brown.</p>
<p>maybe something easier to get into :)</p>
<p>Try Emory.</p>
<p>It would be helpful if you indicated what you especially like about Wes because I automatically think in terms of liberal arts colleges with that special atmosphere that Wes has, but they are all same size or smaller (Macalester, Oberlin, Swarthmore, Haverford, Skidmore, Vassar, etc). So I think you’d have to imagine a liberal arts division of a larger university… I am thinking maybe UC Santa Cruz, though they have 15,000 students. Then there is SUNY Purchase, which has 4,200 students. You get the picture. Wesleyan is pretty unique.</p>
<p>OP, try checking out the 'other schools that people applied to ’ in the princeton review and presumably in other guides to answer your question.</p>
<p>Tufts is about 5,100 so it’s almost twice as big as Wesleyan. It and Wes are my top two choices. I know it’s known as a science or engineering school, but it’s very liberal arts and it’s engineering program is small and not at all dominant of the academics there, which seems to be very diverse. I loved it, and it reminded me a lot of Wesleyan.</p>
<p>I’d second millie7’s suggestion of Tufts. It has a similarly quirky atmosphere. It’s kind of a qualitative generalization, but both are very liberal, nonconformist, intellectual, etc. The main difference, besides size, is that Tufts’ brand of quirkiness is a bit less hipster-ish and a bit more playful, and that Tufts focuses academically on maintaining an interdisciplinary/international perspective.</p>
<p>Wesleyan actually is a pioneer and continues to be a leader in interdisciplinary education as well as international studies. The College of Social Studies is an interdisciplinary major in European history, economics, government and philosophy, the College of Letters in European literature, history, and philosophy. The College of the Environment includes the natural sciences, government, economics and sociology. There is the Science in Society major that blends the natural and social sciences. Wesleyan’s newest one is the College of East Asian Studies, that is not only interdisciplinary but also international. The undergraduate Music major has many faculty and courses from the World Music Ph.D. program on campus. The Religion major has equal parts eastern and western religion courses. The French Studies major has strong representation of Francophone courses on Haiti and Africa. The Wesleyan History department is about as international as one can get. </p>
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<p>Thanks, morganhil, that’s good to know. I stand corrected about Tufts being more interdisciplinary–it’s not something that I picked up while visiting Wes as much, but it appears to be the case.</p>