<p>I was accepted at UVA and W&M this year and picked W&M. It was a tough decision but I’m confident I made the right one. What sealed the deal for me was a visit to both campuses. W&M just felt so much better to me. In my opinion W&M’s campus was a lot prettier and it was (obviously) not as large as UVA’s campus. The students at W&M seemed a lot friendlier than the students I talked to at UVA. Also, while according to the numbers UVA is the more diverse school, W&M seemed more diverse. It’s hard to explain, but while I was at UVA the student body seemed very much homogeneous while compared to the W&M student body. Also, I found Williamsburg to be a much nicer place than Charlottesville. Actually, Charlottesville didn’t seem like a nice place at all, it actually seemed like a fairly poor area and looked rundown.</p>
<p>As far as prestige goes… prestige is in the eye of the beholder. Most kids at my school think that UVA is the more prestigious school (and kept telling me that only nerds go to W&M), most of the older people I know thought that W&M was the more prestigious school. I think that grad schools will pretty much see them in the same light.</p>