Wellelsey vs. Wesleyan

ghandler94
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:18:05 +0000

I am choosing between Wesleyan and Wellesley (which is also the hardest thing to tell people, because I confuse the names). I went to SOC and Wes’s equivalent to that and did overnights at both.

My overall impression is that Wesleyan has a very happy vibe on campus and a lot going on from jazz concerts, to a capella, to lectures, to art shows, to parties. I understand that there is a big “hippie” population there, but the student body did seem very diverse in the sense that there were many different types of people (resulting from VERY prominent sports, art, music, etc.)

For Wellesley, I got the sense that academics are clearly superior and more focused than Wes, but not enough to knock Wes off of my list. The student body, in comparison, was not giving off the happiest vibe, but was very studious, which is absolutely fine with me because of how much I myself study just for high school classes. I understand that a social scene is available and am not concerned. However, I did go to an all-women high school for frosh/soph year and switched to co-ed, so while at Wellesley, I was very aware of the missing dynamic in, say, a literature discussion.

Any thoughts? I’m looking at computer science and/or neuroscience and a pre-med track (probably, but this all changes and both have great programs so not basing it on specifics like that).