Please suggest for my daughter

Here_to_Help
Fri, 29 May 2009 12:11:54 +0000

W&M - very small number of Pell Grant and low-income students, relatively conservative student body; outdoors?

It has a higher % of Pell Grant students than UVA and a high level of economic diversity. The student body is probably close to the College average in terms of political leanings, although the Board of Visitors and the State Government used to be more conservative. Located on a large lake (there’s a nice dock with canoes and kayaks for faculty, staff, and students) with a large forest with running trails, many athletic clubs (like Judo, sailing, running, rock climbing, frisbee, that kind of thing), numerous student sponsored 5ks or walk-a-thons, indoor rock climbing wall, a great rec center, a couple olympic size swimming pools, high participation in IM sports, departmental field trips nearly every weekend between kiniseology and geology to go rock climbing or hiking or camping in the Appalachians, located close between (just a few miles from) two major rivers (the James and the York), many biology sponsored trips to go canoeing and do research in the Chesapeake (there are other active outdoors research opportunities with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, a graduate program of the College which has its own campus on the York River Estuary overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, too), various classes like the geology labs or some of the kiniseology classes go on field trips to go camping or hiking or rock climbing or boating, many world class golf courses nearby, biking trails, Virginia beach is just a short drive away, the Yorktown or Jamestown beaches are even closer, and many national battlefields and parks are nearby.



Once you narrow down your list, you need to visit. Many schools my kid considered had some negative stereotype or other attached to them. In one case, the visit confirmed the stereotype. In other cases it did not, or it did and he decided he could live with that negative.

I had the same thing happen on my college search too. Definitely good advice!