William & Mary Cypher

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Anonymous wrote:DD is still waiting for her decision but was looking through the class of 2030 commits account and was surprised by how sporty/preppy/Greek interested all of the admitted students seemed to be - it seemed like almost every single person was either planning to rush or big on going out or into playing 3-4 sports. It wasn't what we were expecting based on what we read on here.

After a casual glance at that Instagram page, I’m not seeing what you’re seeing at all. Are you sure you weren’t looking at UVA commits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is still waiting for her decision but was looking through the class of 2030 commits account and was surprised by how sporty/preppy/Greek interested all of the admitted students seemed to be - it seemed like almost every single person was either planning to rush or big on going out or into playing 3-4 sports. It wasn't what we were expecting based on what we read on here.

After a casual glance at that Instagram page, I’m not seeing what you’re seeing at all. Are you sure you weren’t looking at UVA commits?

There are multiple accounts but williamandmary2030_ is the only active one.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is still waiting for her decision but was looking through the class of 2030 commits account and was surprised by how sporty/preppy/Greek interested all of the admitted students seemed to be - it seemed like almost every single person was either planning to rush or big on going out or into playing 3-4 sports. It wasn't what we were expecting based on what we read on here.

After a casual glance at that Instagram page, I’m not seeing what you’re seeing at all. Are you sure you weren’t looking at UVA commits?

There are multiple accounts but williamandmary2030_ is the only active one.

Ah, I was looking at wm2030class.

[Anonymous]

My kid was accepted EA at UVA (from FCPS) but hasn't received a cypher card from W&M. Have any in NoVA received one this admissions cycle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid was accepted EA at UVA (from FCPS) but hasn't received a cypher card from W&M. Have any in NoVA received one this admissions cycle?

It doesn't sound like anything has come out yet. However most applicants don't receive one, so it could just be nobody has posted about one yet.

[Anonymous]

My kid is a 1693 semifinalist and hasn't gotten a cypher, fwiw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There are multiple accounts but williamandmary2030_ is the only active one.

Is that the real page? Many of the posts are from students who say they are 100% committed to another school. Or that they are majoring in a department W&M doesn't have, like nursing, criminal justice, or game design. The whole page looks very fake to me.

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Anonymous wrote:

There are multiple accounts but williamandmary2030_ is the only active one.

Is that the real page? Many of the posts are from students who say they are 100% committed to another school. Or that they are majoring in a department W&M doesn't have, like nursing, criminal justice, or game design. The whole page looks very fake to me.

There is no "real page". Almost all of the "$school_name class of 2030" (or whatever permutation of <school_name> and <graduation_year> and maybe the word "official" somewhere in there) Instagram accounts are hosted by for-profit companies, spoofed to look like they're some sort of official page from the university. This is one reason many students don't post to these accounts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

There are multiple accounts but williamandmary2030_ is the only active one.

Is that the real page? Many of the posts are from students who say they are 100% committed to another school. Or that they are majoring in a department W&M doesn't have, like nursing, criminal justice, or game design. The whole page looks very fake to me.

Are you sure you're on the right account? https://www.instagram.com/williamandmary2030_/

I'm not seeing any people who are committed to different schools/majoring in stuff that doesn't exist. They also tag the person in each post and all of them have W&M in their bios and are clearly real accounts.

[Anonymous]

There are a few fake/no longer used class of 2030 accounts for W&M but this one is the most legitimate/used from what I've seen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a few fake/no longer used class of 2030 accounts for W&M but this one is the most legitimate/used from what I've seen.

None of the accounts are officially affiliated with the university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A girl my kids grew up with is living her best life at W&M. She is very mainstream pretty and smart, but has never been able to fit into the popular crowd socially. Not really sure why. She tried and struggled so much. I don’t know if she is what DCUM calls quirky, but she just isn’t teenager “cool.” I don’t know how else to describe her. My DC always said she was nice, but really annoying or “a know it all.” She is now president of her sorority at W&M and super happy. This is what people mean when they say quirky kids thrive there.

This made me laugh. I went to WM and was in a sorority. Most of us thought our president was irritating, but she got elected because no one else wanted to deal with the administrative parts.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few fake/no longer used class of 2030 accounts for W&M but this one is the most legitimate/used from what I've seen.

None of the accounts are officially affiliated with the university.

Well yes, but this is clearly the account that students are using

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is still waiting for her decision but was looking through the class of 2030 commits account and was surprised by how sporty/preppy/Greek interested all of the admitted students seemed to be - it seemed like almost every single person was either planning to rush or big on going out or into playing 3-4 sports. It wasn't what we were expecting based on what we read on here.

I think those are the kids who are just more likely to post on Instagram immediately. I’m on campus almost every day and there’s still a whole lot of quirk around. (And I don’t mean that in a bad way.)

PP: I thought that at first but when DD and I compared to the posts from last year it was a pretty big difference. Significant increase in posts from sporty/preppy/Greek-interested girls, very few posts from girls outside that umbrella. There are probably 5x as many people just who have mentioned rushing. Especially since we're only on early decision, why would the average person posting be so different from last year?

W&M has a range of students, from nerdy to preppy. The nerdy types may be less likely to post their bios on social media so that page likely attracts more of the outgoing students. You shouldn’t rely on Instagram to demonstrate the entire universe of college student body.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is still waiting for her decision but was looking through the class of 2030 commits account and was surprised by how sporty/preppy/Greek interested all of the admitted students seemed to be - it seemed like almost every single person was either planning to rush or big on going out or into playing 3-4 sports. It wasn't what we were expecting based on what we read on here.

I think those are the kids who are just more likely to post on Instagram immediately. I’m on campus almost every day and there’s still a whole lot of quirk around. (And I don’t mean that in a bad way.)

PP: I thought that at first but when DD and I compared to the posts from last year it was a pretty big difference. Significant increase in posts from sporty/preppy/Greek-interested girls, very few posts from girls outside that umbrella. There are probably 5x as many people just who have mentioned rushing. Especially since we're only on early decision, why would the average person posting be so different from last year?

W&M has a range of students, from nerdy to preppy. The nerdy types may be less likely to post their bios on social media so that page likely attracts more of the outgoing students. You shouldn’t rely on Instagram to demonstrate the entire universe of college student body.

PP: The point I was making is that it seemed like there was a drastic decrease in "nerdy" people posting on the acct this year. Why would those people suddenly be less likely?