If WM instate is the target, where else is your DC applying?
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Anonymous
| It’s hard to find a balance of small school, good academics and not crazy expensive. I’m guessing we will have to sacrifice on school size for the other applications? |
Anonymous
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Christopher Newport
Some smaller catholic universities like St Joseph’s, Loyola MD |
Anonymous
| Elon is a nice campus, similar size. Easier acceptance rate. Mine is at WM, but also applied there and Wake. |
Anonymous
Interesting. Did you kid visit Wake before applying? I know the stats are similar to W&M but the student vibe is completely different so just wondering. |
Anonymous
| Wake& Davidson |
Anonymous
OP here. Wake is too expensive and doesn’t seem to give much merit aid. I’m sure it’s nice but doesn’t seem like a realistic option for us. I think the same of Richmond. |
Anonymous
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W&M is not actually small. At about 7,000 undergrads, it’s a sweet spot for many for size.
For merit, I would look to schools a tier or two down - some will give good merit to attract what sounds like a high stats student |
Anonymous
| Agreed. W&M is twice the size of U of Richmond. |
Anonymous
Just because other schools are smaller does not make it “not actually small.” It’s small. |
Anonymous
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CNU
Charleston Elon TCNJ UNCA Not a lot of schools like WM. I believe the 3 OOS options grant merit. |
Anonymous
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From an earlier year:
Furman American Wake GWU Also considered Wofford, Davidson, Rhodes and SEC honors programs |
Anonymous
You just rattled off a bunch of schools that are "crazy expensive". |
Anonymous
All schools are crazy expensive except for in-state public universities. So if Christopher Newport is not prestigious enough for you, your kid needs to go to nova and then transfer to William and Mary. |
Anonymous
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I have a freshman at WM and it is in a sweet spot especially with in state tuition. There definitely aren’t a lot of schools in that mid size category in general so you end up mostly needing to look bigger or smaller unless you are willing to pay top dollar for a midsize like Emory, Wash U etc
I think there are options as another PP said if you chase merit at some of the smaller schools in say the 35-100 range on the USNews SLAC rankings. Of course some of that depends on your child’s stats and how strong they are, as well as a lot of randomness. You just won’t know until you get the offer what the package is as it seems pretty variable from school to school and year to year. You also may still be over the cost of WM but depends how price sensitive you are ultimately. Schools like Davidson, Wake, mentioned on here are unlikely to offer merit in this range. Places like F&M, Dickinson, Charleston (which isn’t that expensive anyway), Elon, CWRU, might. |
Anonymous
| Boston College, Mary Washington |