Wesleyan University Top Questions

Wes students are hippies and super-liberal.

1. That everyone at wesleyan smokes pot all the time and a non-smoker will feel out of place. 2. That people walk around naked. 3. That Middletown is not a good place in which to spend 4 years. 4. That professors are good, classes are small, and students like to help each other instead of compete.

the typical wessy can appear as a hippy, with a divide between athletes and the rest of the student body

That Wes students are all hippies.

The main one is that it's all artsy and hipster, and that no one cares about sports.

1. College guides are about ten to fifteen years behind the times, and paint a picture of Wes and the student body as constantly engaged in (political) activism, sticking it to the man, being weird for weirdness' sake, and being artsy. People imagine that it's still like it was in "PCU" (a 1990s film based on Wes), with people constantly protesting and partying. 2. There's also the thing about Wesleyan’s being a "Little Ivy" or like a poor man's Brown. 3. Wesleyan students also have a reputation for being smart, engaged, and serious students.

That students are all: hippies, hipsters, radicals, artsy-fartsy, stoners.

Those people who know Wesleyan isn't an all-female school think Wes students are very progressive, socially active, a little smelly, and only form racially diverse groups of friends. We're also all gay.

Wesleyan is all naked, pot smoking, uber trendy hippies and hipsters. Athletes dont exists, there are no conservatives on campus. If you dont do drugs you probably shouldnt apply.

We're all weirdos who smoke pot all day.

Weird kids lots of hipsters

All athletes are jerks. No one judges people here.

that everyone loves each other and is one big happy hippie family- definitely not true. also that drug use is prevalent and unavoidable in the wesleyan social scene.

Progressive nutcase students

- Wesleyan students are granola-loving, tree-hugging hippies; they don't shave or bathe; they are politically active and overly politically correct.

We're drugged up homosexual hippies. We're very liberal and pretentious hipsters.

stoners and hipsters rule on high

wes is often made out to be this uber-liberal, hippy, hipster, pretentious, unshaven place.

crazy, lots of drugs, proud of being "whacky," way too politically correct

Hippies and hipsters.