Wes' Prestige as recognized by oher colleges

MrPimpateer
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:37:33 +0000

@ JohnWesley

I don’t know. I haven’t taken many econ classes. The upper level courses in Gov are pretty damn hard - most of them require a 15-30 page paper as a final. Taking 2 upper level Gov courses with research papers at the end hurts.

@ljean

I’m spending next year abroad. Should be interesting.

@flying_pig

I feel really bad for you as a person because you’ve made Wesleyan out to be something in your mind - a very specific something, i.e. a place at which everything is perfect and all classes are small/intellectually stimulating/well-taught and the students are all brainy offbeat intellectuals who, nevertheless, rarely touch drugs or party - but when you get here you’re gonna inevitably discover that reality doesn’t conform to your perfect mental image.

On CollegeConfidential your opinion as a prefrosh is useful…to a degree, a limited degree. You can talk about objective statistics, you can talk about why YOU want to come here. But guess what? YOU DON’T GO HERE. You don’t have any direct experience at this school. You can only spit tired conventional wisdom and clich