@VAOptimist I’ve actually asked a question about their open curriculum before. Look at #54
Thank you for your insight! Why did your daughter choose W&M if you don’t mind sharing?
@jackwang0703, my daughter was admitted to Wellesley, Oberlin, BU, Smith and UVA, but chose to attend W&M, largely for financial reasons. We are instate, so tuition was significantly lower for all except UVA.
She feels that W&M has the mix of small classes with good interaction with professors, nice, intellectual kids, and the sense of community that she was seeking. The downside is that it is not near a major city. W&M makes it easy to study abroad so a lot of students take advantage of that to go to an interesting destination their junior year. W&M also offers a semester in Washington, DC.
The campus is beautiful and not too spread out to get around easily. And your friend is correct - you will have a double your freshman year and possibly your sophomore and junior years too. Roommates are part of the experience for most US college students.
I really hope that you get a chance to visit.
I just talked to another Wesleyan 2018 who started the social media platform in China. He just told me some shocking stats from this year’s admission of Chinese students.
There’s over 1000 students applied overall and over 100 applied ED. 22 got accepted under ED and less than 30 under RD. That makes the overall Chinese acceptance rate about 4% and RD about 3%… That’s insane. I didn’t realize I’m that lucky to get an acceptance. Last year only 900 Chinese applied but they accepted over 70. Plus he said many students who got into Penn, Pomona, Bowdoin or Wellesley got rejected or waitlisted by Wes.
What a crazy year! Beyond blessed.
You received some fantastic replies on this thread @jackwang0703!
@merc81 Yes I did indeed. I really appreciate every single one of them. Go Cardinals!
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Congratulations! Great choice!
Wonderful!
Congratulations @jackwang0703!
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