<p>namtrag,</p>
<p>you should atleast check your facts when you respond. UVa’s total undergrad population is about 13000 - so 3200 is about the freshman class. Yes that is significantly larger than w&m. </p>
<p>and yes, students choose to live off campus at UVa. I am sure if w&m offered decent off campus housing in an at least interesting town (not that c-ville is great, but williamsburg isn’t exactly hoppin) maybe more students would live off campus. If you’ve never been to UVa, you’d realize that most people who live off campus live within a few blocks of the school - no further away than some of the on grounds housing.</p>
<p>Again, I am not arguing that w&m is worse than uva, nor am I arguing that uva is better than w&m. Obviously they are different places and people will prefer one over the other. I’m just dispelling this notion that some people on the w&m forum have that it is some magical place that is better than uva because it is a relatively small public university that has private roots from 200 years ago.</p>