What’s the deal with Washington & Lee?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The school claims nearly 60% receive significant aid, much of which is need-based aid.

Cite?

The home page … the landing page of their website … mentions affordability prominently. It says tuition is waived for students from households with less than $150k income, and tuition, room, and board is waived for those from households with less than $75k income.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It had the weirdest vibe of all the schools we toured. And we have toured many!

yes there are always the “normal” schools like oberlin columbia and wesleyan for folks like you!

Name another college with dead confederates buried on the grounds. I’ll wait.

Quite a few with slaveholder names.

Most of the top colleges in the U.S. aren't clean from the original sin of slavery or anti-black racism.

I’ll ask again. Name another college with a confederate corpse on campus.

NP— will add— that named the school after said corpse. And thinks said corpse gives it cache. I think of it as the lack version of Roll Tide! I think the appeal is not a lot of Super Southern Super fratty LACs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The school claims nearly 60% receive significant aid, much of which is need-based aid.

Cite?

The school website dipshit. On the financial aid page.

It’s actually 63%.

And this, right here, is a prototypical member of the W&L community. IYKYK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school claims nearly 60% receive significant aid, much of which is need-based aid.

Cite?

The home page … the landing page of their website … mentions affordability prominently. It says tuition is waived for students from households with less than $150k income, and tuition, room, and board is waived for those from households with less than $75k income.

What percentage of the student body qualifies? Otherwise this means little.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It had the weirdest vibe of all the schools we toured. And we have toured many!

yes there are always the “normal” schools like oberlin columbia and wesleyan for folks like you!

+1

[Anonymous]

“White & Loaded”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had the weirdest vibe of all the schools we toured. And we have toured many!

yes there are always the “normal” schools like oberlin columbia and wesleyan for folks like you!

Name another college with dead confederates buried on the grounds. I’ll wait.

Quite a few with slaveholder names.

Most of the top colleges in the U.S. aren't clean from the original sin of slavery or anti-black racism.

I’ll ask again. Name another college with a confederate corpse on campus.

DP. Seriously? You realize UVA has a Confederate cemetery where 1,097 Confederate soldiers are buried, right? Are you suggesting they be dug up and interred elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

A relative went there. Not sure why but my guess is FA! I don’t think he had a great 4 years there but it led to a lot of connections which led to a great job and he is now very wealthy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had the weirdest vibe of all the schools we toured. And we have toured many!

yes there are always the “normal” schools like oberlin columbia and wesleyan for folks like you!

Name another college with dead confederates buried on the grounds. I’ll wait.

Quite a few with slaveholder names.

Most of the top colleges in the U.S. aren't clean from the original sin of slavery or anti-black racism.

I’ll ask again. Name another college with a confederate corpse on campus.

DP. Seriously? You realize UVA has a Confederate cemetery where 1,097 Confederate soldiers are buried, right? Are you suggesting they be dug up and interred elsewhere?

They’re not in a university building. You have to admit having the corpse of Lee himself in the W&L chapel presents a situation that’s in a league of its own.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It had the weirdest vibe of all the schools we toured. And we have toured many!

yes there are always the “normal” schools like oberlin columbia and wesleyan for folks like you!

Name another college with dead confederates buried on the grounds. I’ll wait.

Quite a few with slaveholder names.

Most of the top colleges in the U.S. aren't clean from the original sin of slavery or anti-black racism.

+1000 But this PP would look past it if they got into Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton, Etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in the top 1% and live in the south you know W&L. Otherwise you are not W&L’s target market. IYKYK

When I was an obnoxious freshman at W&L, I’d meet young women at parties by asking their horse’s name, and as often as not they’d laugh and ask how I knew they had a horse.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It had the weirdest vibe of all the schools we toured. And we have toured many!

What was weird about it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This school comes up time to time; I've heard a significant amount are from out-of-state. Lived in VA all my life and never ever met anyone that graduated from W&L or a met a kid that showed interest in attending.

Given VA has great schools - is there anything that WL provides that is appealing to you? William and Mary is good for that LAC feel.

Most VA people are in that camp - why am I paying this much over a state school?

If you can pay that much then DCUM leans towards WASP or WASP adjacent.

I’m guessing that the appeal might actually be the lack of LAC feel. More traditional, if you get my meaning.

W&L is just a southern version of the same thing you get at Williams- middle of nowhere, outdoorsy, small liberal arts college

With the highest Greek rate in the country! Not interested, thx

[Anonymous]

Pink elephant…

I would not go there even if they give me the Johnson scholarship.

[Anonymous]

It’s kind of perfect that the most distinguished alum is Tom Wolfe.