Academics @ Wm & M

soccerguy315
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:30:04 +0000

scoot698, well, I chose WM because I’m instate, and you can’t beat it for the price. The campus is one of the nicest in the country. The people are very friendly and down to earth, there’s not really many stuck up people at all.

If you want to go out on the weekends, frats, sports houses, and off campus houses/apartments are generally where it’s at. The school does sponsor other ‘sober’ activities. If you can have a good time hanging out with people, then you might be better off than if you have to be intoxicated to have fun. But I see both kinds of people here, and they seem to enjoy themselves.

It is very possible to get A’s, but they are not thrown around. You can think WM isn’t hard, but it is harder to get higher grades at WM than at almost any other school. I think the most important thing, that UVAKID mentioned, is that the professors care about you. They are willing to put in time to help you out. The only time US News rated dedication to undergrad teaching (1995), WM was ranked #1 in the country.

hxhsux, I think a good stat for the appreciation of WM undergrad curriculum is that something ridiculous like 80% of students who want to go to med school get into their 1st choice school. 80% of them don’t have a 3.7 or 3.5.