William and Mary

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have a dc heading to William and Mary this fall or heavily considering it as a rising senior? Tell me what your dc so for fun, extracurricular. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Rising junior - club sport, volunteers locally, goes to plays/concerts, Greek life, etc. Lots to do in the surrounding area. No car but bikes and uses the bus.

[Anonymous]

If you're asking more about what they did in high school (and included on the application), mine played a rec-level sport for several years and has played an instrument for a long time and in various groups. Otherwise, minimal volunteering on an official level. Obviously, I can't say how these were viewed during the application review, but the total package worked and DC will be starting there this fall.

Also, FWIW W&M likes demonstrated interest, so if your kid is interested, be sure to visit, take the tour, sign up for (and read) the emails.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! Always interesting to hear about the kids who attend a certain school.

[Anonymous]

Participated in club level sport, intramural sports as well as non-sport club activities. Attended on campus activities, organized trips off campus, movies, etc.

Although located in a small tourist driven town there is still enough to do.

[Anonymous]

Involved with nerf club at WM. On Saturday nights, they take over academic buildings for elaborate nerf games. Some “pre-game,” but a lot are sober. A great way to socialize on weekends if drinking/ parties aren’t your thing. After that, a large group hangs out post midnight at Wawa with kids coming from Greek events.

Also very involved in a language house, a music ensemble and the WM orchestra (not a music major or minor).

Bikes everywhere and says the bus works very well. Only needs to a Uber rarely. Says they would prefer not to have a car on campus because biking plus bus works well, and parking is a mess.

Did a summer overseas and loved it. Planning to do a semester next year.

Loves the school and living their best life.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only one who read the question the way it was written—as a question for kids who plan to go there, not who are there now?

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who read the question the way it was written—as a question for kids who plan to go there, not who are there now?

The question is kind of confusing. In HS? Every Humanities AP they could take, but lighter on STEM. But, main EC was FRC robotics, and was very involved in a technical subteam, which was a bit unusual given the meh attitude towards formal STEM classes. Also 4 years of orchestra at school and in the community. Did a student study abroad exchange. We hosted a kid from the target country, then she went and stayed with that kids host family. Did a critical languages program through the NSA in the same language. ECs were a bit interrupted because of vovid sophomore me junior years.

[Anonymous]

As a HS kid: Longtime EC like robotics w/comps & instrument for fun, state level leadership position, second foreign language involvement, rest generic school club stuff.

At W&M: Language House, Botany Club, Garden Club, Job. Attends plays and concerts. Loves nature walks on and near campus or thru CW. Occasional visits to Target or New Town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who read the question the way it was written—as a question for kids who plan to go there, not who are there now?

Same

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Anonymous wrote:Involved with nerf club at WM. On Saturday nights, they take over academic buildings for elaborate nerf games. Some “pre-game,” but a lot are sober. A great way to socialize on weekends if drinking/ parties aren’t your thing. After that, a large group hangs out post midnight at Wawa with kids coming from Greek events.

Also very involved in a language house, a music ensemble and the WM orchestra (not a music major or minor).

Bikes everywhere and says the bus works very well. Only needs to a Uber rarely. Says they would prefer not to have a car on campus because biking plus bus works well, and parking is a mess.

Did a summer overseas and loved it. Planning to do a semester next year.

Loves the school and living their best life.

Gotta ask, why are kids hanging out post midnight at the Wawa???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Involved with nerf club at WM. On Saturday nights, they take over academic buildings for elaborate nerf games. Some “pre-game,” but a lot are sober. A great way to socialize on weekends if drinking/ parties aren’t your thing. After that, a large group hangs out post midnight at Wawa with kids coming from Greek events.

Also very involved in a language house, a music ensemble and the WM orchestra (not a music major or minor).

Bikes everywhere and says the bus works very well. Only needs to a Uber rarely. Says they would prefer not to have a car on campus because biking plus bus works well, and parking is a mess.

Did a summer overseas and loved it. Planning to do a semester next year.

Loves the school and living their best life.

Gotta ask, why are kids hanging out post midnight at the Wawa???

It’s a WM thing.

https://flathatnews.com/2022/11/14/late-night-wawa-trivia/

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/wawa-love-letter

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/8-wm-students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Involved with nerf club at WM. On Saturday nights, they take over academic buildings for elaborate nerf games. Some “pre-game,” but a lot are sober. A great way to socialize on weekends if drinking/ parties aren’t your thing. After that, a large group hangs out post midnight at Wawa with kids coming from Greek events.

Also very involved in a language house, a music ensemble and the WM orchestra (not a music major or minor).

Bikes everywhere and says the bus works very well. Only needs to a Uber rarely. Says they would prefer not to have a car on campus because biking plus bus works well, and parking is a mess.

Did a summer overseas and loved it. Planning to do a semester next year.

Loves the school and living their best life.

Gotta ask, why are kids hanging out post midnight at the Wawa???

It’s a WM thing.

https://flathatnews.com/2022/11/14/late-night-wawa-trivia/

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/wawa-love-letter

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/8-wm-students

Are they really hanging out at the Wawa, or simply buying their $6 hoagie at 12am and then sitting outside eating it.

It is directly across the street from the W&M campus. UPenn has 3 Wawa's across the street from various parts of campus (Wawa is HQ in Philadelphia) which are quite popular, but nobody is hanging out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Involved with nerf club at WM. On Saturday nights, they take over academic buildings for elaborate nerf games. Some “pre-game,” but a lot are sober. A great way to socialize on weekends if drinking/ parties aren’t your thing. After that, a large group hangs out post midnight at Wawa with kids coming from Greek events.

Also very involved in a language house, a music ensemble and the WM orchestra (not a music major or minor).

Bikes everywhere and says the bus works very well. Only needs to a Uber rarely. Says they would prefer not to have a car on campus because biking plus bus works well, and parking is a mess.

Did a summer overseas and loved it. Planning to do a semester next year.

Loves the school and living their best life.

Gotta ask, why are kids hanging out post midnight at the Wawa???

It’s a WM thing.

https://flathatnews.com/2022/11/14/late-night-wawa-trivia/

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/wawa-love-letter

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/8-wm-students

Are they really hanging out at the Wawa, or simply buying their $6 hoagie at 12am and then sitting outside eating it.

It is directly across the street from the W&M campus. UPenn has 3 Wawa's across the street from various parts of campus (Wawa is HQ in Philadelphia) which are quite popular, but nobody is hanging out there.

Apparently, they really hang out at WaWa— often while eating Mac and cheese or whatever. And it’s a cross section of kids— from Greeks post parties to kids who are much nerdier/sober. Which is an issue the school tries to address periodically because of crowding and drunk kids puking/not on their best behavior. That said, it’s apparent the top grossing Wawa on the East coast. So the owners are getting some ROI.

My DC really like the mix mash of different kids hanging out together. She isn’t a drinker and goes to hang out with with friends (she likes to be the one to put in the group order on the app because she gets loyalty points and often her order is free). And she says it fun to find to run into a group of kids from her classes that she would not ordinarily hang out with outside of class and have a mix of drunk and sober kids continuing a class discussion from the prior week. I guess 1am discussions of Russian economic involvement in Armenia among kids who are varying degrees of sober at WaWa at 1 am is a very WM thing to do. Much more relaxed than class, obviously, and she says some interesting and funny takes when you add drunk kids to the mix. She ended up writing a final paper last semester that started as a 1am WaWa discussion.

Seems odd to me, but I guess every college has things, places, traditions, events that make it unique. WM obviously has a lot of traditions that are hundreds of years old (Convocation, Charter Day, ringing the Wren Bell, Yule Log, etc) and other ways to socialize. But weekend WaWa is also a real thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Involved with nerf club at WM. On Saturday nights, they take over academic buildings for elaborate nerf games. Some “pre-game,” but a lot are sober. A great way to socialize on weekends if drinking/ parties aren’t your thing. After that, a large group hangs out post midnight at Wawa with kids coming from Greek events.

Also very involved in a language house, a music ensemble and the WM orchestra (not a music major or minor).

Bikes everywhere and says the bus works very well. Only needs to a Uber rarely. Says they would prefer not to have a car on campus because biking plus bus works well, and parking is a mess.

Did a summer overseas and loved it. Planning to do a semester next year.

Loves the school and living their best life.

Gotta ask, why are kids hanging out post midnight at the Wawa???

Obviously because there is no Sheetz or RoFa. You make do with what you have.