Wes' Prestige as recognized by oher colleges

smartalic34
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:30:34 +0000

I’m going to weigh in on this conversation as a CURRENT student. I’d have to say that despite being only a pre-frosh, flying_pig’s discussions and descriptions about Wes have been far closer to my own true experiences than MrPimpateer’s. I think that your opinion of Wes is going to greatly differ depending on the “crowd” you’re in with and the specific courses you take.

No offense meant to MrPimpateer, but I’ve had very, very different social eperiences than you and have had excellent classes in the social sciences. I also live with a religion major, and he doesn’t really have any complaints. I’ll agree that History here isn’t the strongest, but Econ and Gov are excellent, with arguably the best professors at Wesleyan residing in the Econ department. I do think you’re wrong when you say the environment for social scientific inquiry blows. Maybe it doesn’t meet your ideals, but from what I gather, it does for most people. Again, I’m not posting to play devil’s advocate; I just want to let it be known that other, contrasting opinions (that carry weight) do exist.