Wesleyan vs. Brown as a transfer student

morganhil
Sun, 13 May 2012 19:43:41 +0000

I believe the poster above is correct about being too late to apply for CSS for the fall. There were 61 applicants among freshmen this year, and 30 have been selected. As the selection process involves an interview with a faculty member and a CSS student, and as classes ended May 9, I think you are out of luck. You can always call them, but applications were due back in March for CSS. Students are admitted only as sophomores.

However, I have to put a good word in for the Wesleyan Dept. of Economics, which boasts a Nobel Prize winner and is a very rigorous and highly-regarded program. You can absolutely double major in economics and history, for example, and create a CSS-like academic experience for yourself. As you move into upper division courses, classes are small and it is very easy to get to know professors and classmates. Wesleyan is much smaller than Brown and has the kind of intimacy you will rarely find at a larger institution. And Wesleyan has one of the top track records in percent of graduates who complete Ph.D. programs (usually ranked second, I recall).