<p>I had to respond to this one because my son chose Wesleyan over the Berkeley College of Chemistry and is now studying chemistry at Wesleyan. What clinched it for him was a trip to Wes and a tour of the science facilities and I highly recommend that you do that. His academic experience has been great so far, and he has something like 40(?) kids in orgo class, his largest class. The College of Chemistry sent him a letter bragging that his Chem classes would only have 200 students each. Honestly, I thought it was a typo, but then I found out that Berkeley’s other chem classes outside that college have 500 plus students. Also, research is pretty easy to get involved with and almost expected at Wes, while at Berkeley undergrad research is the exception and you have to fight for it.
What really won us though was how kind, engaged, and dedicated we found the science faculty at Wes- nothing like Berkeley. He has had much positive interaction with his profs so far - we know that wouldn’t happen at Berkeley.
The only problem with Wes is that its so far from home for him, but there’s no question that’s he’s getting a better education than he would have at Berkeley.</p>