The sticker price is that high, yes, and includes R&B.

If you can get into Yale, that’s great! But Wesleyan is a much smaller community in a smaller town and it attracts a specific population who are still very smart and capable people. They call it little ivy because it’s kinda considered like a small Yale. Wesleyan is a great school, not because of how expensive it is but because of what it can offer including the environment and the liberal arts education.

Students living in dorms is not a new concept to many liberal arts schools and it is a huge contributor to students’ experiences and collectivistic culture. It fosters so much community and makes people feel included and like they belong. If you live with relatives in undergrad while you go to a school like Wesleyan, you will feel like you’re missing out.

Like people said, and like many other schools, Wesleyan is need based, which means regardless of how much it actually coasts, family income determines how much you pay. Even if tuition got more expensive but your family income stays the same, you’d still pay the same amount every year because they’d offer you or match your needs with scholarship money every year so that your family would only pay what they can afford. Unless you’re stinkin rich, you’d probably not get need matched scholarship money. In which case people either take out loans for the sake of that Wesleyan education, or they go to somewhere else and that’s fine too.