School like W&M but with bigger sports culture

[Anonymous]

DC likes the size/feel of W&M and is a fit for their stats but wants someplace with a stronger sports program (where football/basketball are big events on campus, not an afterthought). Wake Forest comes to mind but looking for other suggestions.

[Anonymous]

Well Davidson is smaller but their basketball team is a top div 1 contender.
Richmond seems to have more of a sports culture too.

[Anonymous]

Stanford

[Anonymous]

UVA

[Anonymous]

Rice, Duke, Vanderbilt, Tulane, SMU

[Anonymous]

Notre Dame

[Anonymous]

Villanova has a good basketball team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice, Duke, Vanderbilt, Tulane, SMU

Rice and Tulane don’t have much sports culture from the students I know at those colleges. The Tulane students lament it and the Rice student is happy about it.

[Anonymous]

TCU

[Anonymous]

Rice and Tulane don’t have much sports culture from the students I know at those colleges.

Vanderbilt doesn't either. Kids dress up and go to the tailgate parties for football, but skip the game.

[Anonymous]

Duke

[Anonymous]

There’s a number of medium-sized privates that offer what you want, but note that they’re all private. Do you want to pay an additional $30-40k year for sport spirit?

[Anonymous]

Your question kinda gets at why UVA is popular with the VA crowd: you get great academics and sport spirit at a public school price. UVA is larger than WM, but way smaller than Michigan or similar selective publics.

[Anonymous]

OP is right, Wake Forest checks all the boxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s a number of medium-sized privates that offer what you want, but note that they’re all private. Do you want to pay an additional $30-40k year for sport spirit?

W&M is the most expensive state college in the country, especially if you are OOS.