How is Williams College?

Gratisfaction
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:17:33 +0000

As an outsider neither on Team Williams nor Team OP, can I just ask that we move this thread at least marginally towards its main intention. Look, the kid may just be lazy and not have put in the time to ask more thorough questions, or he may be even lazier and is expecting others to do his research for him, but as a prospective applicant to this school, my admittedly selfish plea is that you answer his questions.

Yes, I have done my research. I’ve done a lot of it, actually. I’ve even visited campus and had a fairly lengthy discussion with the admissions officer at the information session about Winter Study. But there is no such thing as too much information. Every time a new thread is started with questions about the school, I hope to find new perspectives, gold nuggets of new information and even restated opinions. All of this makes me more excited as a prospective student, and more competitive as an applicant. Having this meta debate about the thread and not even vaguely discussing the questions isn’t doing much good besides scaring off future posters and quenching some people’s evident thirst for the blood of other CCers.

I could chip in here and ask more detailed questions on the OP’s behalf, but my hope was (and still is) that the open-ended nature of the question will lead to a greater breadth of answers, whereas more specific questions would limit discussion to the context of the OP’s interest.