When my son was admitted to Williams for the Class of 2021, I was very impressed with the way the admins handled all aspects of welcoming my son, not just a great FA package. They knew that my son was interested in studying biology and music, so he received a personal letter from a bio faculty and a music faculty. Prior to these welcoming letters, he also received a letter from Dean of Arts and Sciences, a letter from a parent and another letter from a student. Even before he was admitted, we were surprised that a highly well known music performance instructor at Williams sent an email to my son inviting him to join her music workshop in Europe over the summer.
We really felt that, at Williams, all students would succeed with this degree of attention and care. Going back to the topic of FA, Williams was the only school out of seven that really paid a close attention to my “additional note” about our unique financial circumstances for that particular year. In their FA letter, they not only mentioned this with the assurance that the future FA would be adjusted accordingly but they also mentioned my son’s sibling by name and how that’d affect the future FA offer, as well. All around, really impressive school!!