Epinions Recent Reviews for Wheaton College (IL)

Wheaton College (IL): All Truth is God's Truth

Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:50:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mht - Wheaton College, known as the premier Christian college, merits its reputation. Consider: 1) Wheaton ranked in the Top Ten, just behind Yale and M.I.T. among all colleges and universities in the United States in the percentage of National Merit Scholars...

Wheaton College (IL): Still a Great Bargain

Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:31:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mht - When I was considering which college to go to, it actually would have costed me a similar amount to go to Berkeley as a California resident as it did for me to attend Wheaton (after taking into account scholarships). That fact was due both to the...

Wheaton College (IL): Out of this World!

Tue, 12 Dec 2000 03:34:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mht - I remember an elderly Wheaton alumna named Ruth telling me when I was deciding on which college to attend that 1) all her closest friends were from Wheaton and 2) when she passed on, everything she owned would go to Wheaton. Her statement impressed me...

Wheaton College (IL): Prolonged adolescence

Tue, 5 Dec 2000 02:06:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Affrita - I attended Wheaton for two years in the graduate program in Clinical Psychology. Wheaton makes every attempt to integrate Christian faith and academic scholarship. Additionally, it supports students through the common faith to which all subscribe...

Wheaton College (IL): Where's the D League!?

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 07:05:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mht - 40% of students do it and do it with intensity. And if it's only for the T-shirt that tells anyone who cares that you won the IM championship in whatever sport in year XXXX, then is it really worth it? Even for those who fail to receive the prized,...

Wheaton College (IL): Distinctively Selective

Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:01:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mht - Although it stands as the 14th most selective national liberal arts college (ahead of Carleton, Vassar and Colgate) according to the 2001 rankings of U.S. News and World Report, Wheaton has an admissions process that is singular among top national...

Wheaton College (IL): Four fantastic years!

Sat, 9 Sep 2000 14:57:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Match - As a recent alumnus of Wheaton College (1997), I look back very fondly on my days as a chemistry major there. I am currently a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Michigan, and I have found that Wheaton has prepared my very well.
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Wheaton College (IL): Poetry in Motion!

Thu, 31 Aug 2000 02:41:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mht - Eclipsing Penn State with the longest unbeaten streak in collegiate soccer history (66 games!), Wheaton has one of the premiere soccer programs in the nation. Also, Wheaton has the 2nd greatest number of NCAA tournament playoff wins among NCAA D-III...

Wheaton College (IL): Home Sweet Home

Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:01:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slammin_sammy - One of the things I was most worried about after I decided to go to Wheaton College, was what the housing was going to be like. I have a rather small room here at home, but I do have the whole house to roam around in and relax. I was afraid that in...

Wheaton College (IL): Socially Acceptable

Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:49:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slammin_sammy - One thing that you have to realize about rating the quality of life at a Christian school, is that the words "quality" and "life" mean different

things to different people. For the administration at Wheaton

College, having a...

Wheaton College (IL): Smart, Even With God

Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:22:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slammin_sammy - Typically, Christian Colleges have received a reputation of favoring religion over true blue academics; however this is not the case at Wheaton. In fact, it is the goal of Wheaton College to integrate faith and learning together, in order to...

Wheaton College (IL): Sweet SAGA

Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:10:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slammin_sammy - Usually, first year students thinking about their college's meal plan are worrying about the freshman 15. However, since I am a 240 pound football player, 15 pounds here or there really doesn't matter, so this past year I was free to sample everything...

Wheaton College (IL): Show Me the Money

Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:24:19 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author slammin_sammy - When you decide to attend a top-rated liberal arts school, such as Wheaton, you know that it is going to be expensive. However, when you come from a lower-middle class family with two brothers that will be in college in 3 years, you would hope to...

Wheaton College (IL): Smart Kids Can Play To

Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:27:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slammin_sammy - Even though Wheaton is a division 3 school, and even though they are Christian and put a large priority on academics, and even though there are no athletic scholarships: Wheaton sports still got game.

I am a Wheaton College football...

Wheaton College (IL): College of Champions

Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:09:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slammin_sammy - When I began applying to colleges, my goal was to find a college that was as closet to perfection as possible. So far, as I have spent time at Wheaton, the only thing I can say for sure is that the perfect college doesn't exist.

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Wheaton College (IL): Very Rigorous But Very Religious

Mon, 15 May 2000 22:34:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kathy36 - Wheaton College is very rigorous academically. Not only are the classes very difficult and demanding, but this is fostered and magnified by the attitudes of the students. As an example, here is my quintessential Wheaton memory:

The time is...

Wheaton College (IL): Wings Not Weights!

Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:05:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mht - Is Wheaton College too strict or not? Are its standards too onerous or does it inculcate good habits?

To put it briefly, no I don't think that Wheaton is "too strict" generally and that it does help foster positive patterns of life. While I...

Wheaton College (IL): The Best Secret in Higher Education

Mon, 10 Apr 2000 02:55:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mht - I write as a 1997 undergraduate and 1998 graduate alumnus of Wheaton College (IL). I recently graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in the J.D. program (graduation May, 2001). Student Stats: Wheaton College, known as the pre...

Wheaton College (IL): Their team mascot is the "Crusaders".

Sat, 29 Jan 2000 01:45:23 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author TracyFree - This school is exactly what it purports to be, the "Harvard" of Christian schools. The academic program is rigorous and excellent and the faculty top-drawer. The school's own dogmatic orientation toward evangelical, fundamentalist Christian...