Two points: one, I am female, though you couldn’t know that. Two: I have some experience with Whitman and Walla Walla. I am a Whitman alumna; I spent four years in Walla Walla, in school and working in a local business and one summer in the vegetable cannery in Milton-Freewater. I currently have two children who are students there. And I am a 4th-generation Seattle native.
So I–and my children, and others on this board–do have an opinion grounded in actual experience, even if it differs from yours.
Seriously, though, we all get that you think we overrate W2. Perhaps, though, you would do us the courtesy of not continually discounting our positive experiences?
Students interested in Whitman, please visit (during the school year) and talk to actual students. It might not be the right fit for you, but it might be a place you love!