<p>It’s a combination of all of the factors mentioned, I think. Wes has a higher % of 50+ sized classes, again mainly due to having 2,800 students (into bio at Wes is going to be bigger than intro bio at Haverford, if nothing else than because twice as many people want to take it, and Wes isn’t breaking it down into two sections). As JW mentioned, Wes has a younger faculty than, say, Amherst (which is freaking out right now because they are going to lose close to a third of their faculty in the next 5-7 years or so - I’m pulling those numbers from memory and are probably inaccurate - but that’s the gist of it). Combine those with an endowment that should be 2-3 times bigger, and voila. One wonders where Wes would be at if it had the financial resources of its Little Three peers. It definitely holds its own in all of the other categories.</p>
<p>@cshnei: Do you have access to Wesleyan’s peer assessment score? And how it compares to the other top 15 LACs?</p>