Smith College v.s Wesleyan University

leafraindcollege
Sat, 01 Aug 2020 18:06:15 +0000

Hi, not sure if this thread is still running. I ended up transferring from Wesleyan to Smith. As a POC, both schools are VERY ethnically ( and politically) homogenous. Smith champions its “diversity” but that comes from the Asian Int’l Students. I joined multiple different racial student unions ( at both Wesleyan and Smith) and there was barely enough students to constitute a group in many cases :(. I am a Poly Sci major and while the academics at both Wesleyan and Smith are fantastic, I’m deciding whether or not to transfer back to my local state school.

Both schools create this campus “bubble” which I initially found appealing, but after hearing many of my classmates pooh pooh the local residents, etc, I have found both schools to be elitist and somewhat exclusionary.

To explain the “elitist” attitude, I agree that specifically Smith does empower women, but sometimes I feel as if certain careers/ are dismissed and looked down upon at Smith because they are not “prestigious” ( well paying, high social status) enough.

I am a little bit sick of this whole prestige game in admissions/ attitudes of students at certain schools and in light of the BLM movement, finding out that both of these schools have little to no Black students, I would personally pick Wesleyan (Smith students can be a bit uppity, imo)