Chance Me/Match Me for my son - NoVA Resident with 3.9 UW, 1460 SAT, <$50K, for English/Creative Writing & History Double Major

[Bill_Marsh]

@TheMonaLisa

Thank you! Good points! I agree with you. He almost took out William & Mary off his list because they do not offer an English/Creative Writing major, only a minor. He kept it on his list at our urging because of their great History program, and we told him the same things you said about learning to be a good general writer does not require a major in creative writing necessarily.

What difference does it make if they call it a major or a minor???

W&M requires 120 credits for graduation with 15 credits in the core. A History major requires 33 credits, an English major require 36. So, that leaves 48-51 credits for other courses. The fact that the Creative Writing minor requires only 20 credits doesn’t men that a student is limited to 20 credits. A dozen Creative Writing courses are offered. If a student took them all, he would have 36 credits in Creative Writing, which is the same number of credits as is required for an English major. There is a senior thesis required in Creative Writing. There is also a Creative Writing Honors Program, which includes an intensive year long project in the study of Creative Writing. It may not be called a major, but it seems to me that a student can do a lot of study in Creative Writing at William & Mary.