Wesleyan University

Date: Oct 20 2017
Major: Philosophy (This Major's Salary over time)
Wesleyan University is a highly self selective institution. It is largely non-competitive during class—this means that your peers are NOT going to be comparing GPAs and being cut-throat to be top of the bell-curve. Most classroom setting have some degree of collaboration. Large lecture halls have never been an issue. Even with larger first year introduction classes (i.e. Econ 110, Comp 112), they break down the large lecture group into 10 student labs. So you get both a large setting lecture, then personal setting lab. As a student body, Wesleyan is more diverse than most places. The school makes a keen effort to support students of color, low-income, first-generation, and international students. However, it can't be ignored that a large concentration of the student are from New York, Massachusetts, and California. In this way, if you're not from those states it can feel geographically homogenous. Despite the 'rich new york' demographic, campus is NOT waspy or preppy. Regardless of your income level, everyone wears similarly casual attire. Likewise, Middletown is a small town. So students don't have many opportunities to 'splash money around'. As a low income student, this is reassuring. I don't have any fear of being 'outed as poor' and I can enjoy the same things that my peers do.