Williams vs Vandy
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Anonymous
Agree, a more intellectual kid would be happier at Williams. I have had multiple family members attend Vandy, all are nice, relatively successful people who aren’t setting the world on fire. |
Anonymous
| It puts me in the actual depths of despair that a kid who got into Williams is thinking of going Vanderbilt instead. |
Anonymous
same |
Anonymous
Sundresses hit different in the south |
Anonymous
I’m from the South and now live up north. I agree with this to a certain extent as it applies to the “good old boys” and southern belles types. But those types are not the majority of the south so ultimately I think it’s too simplistic and doesn’t account for the racial and socioeconomic diversity in the south. 55% of the US’s African American population is in the south. There is a lot of poverty in the south. There is still systemic racism and segregation academies and a lot of education inequality in the south. So saying on the whole southerners are not intellectually curious or only interested in material items sounds racist and classist and not very nuanced thinking. |
Anonymous
| ^Probably not much demand for sundresses in Williamstown. |
Anonymous
You are responding to my post. I don't think it's a southern thing. After all, outside the south, the largest number of kids come from the NE. There's a country club vibe (whether CT or VA or SC) that permeates everything. Maybe it's a sense of entitlement? (and we are UHNW full pay family, so it wasn't a not fitting in thing). I can't imagine a classroom full of sleeping students at a lecture at Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, or Stanford. Its almost like Vanderbilt has gone too far in the opposite direction of the "nerdy" schools. Wish there was better balance. |
Anonymous
Ahhh. An LAC graduate. |
Anonymous
| There is a private school near me (Philly) that is sending ten kids to Vanderbilt. TEN! |
Anonymous
Very impressive !!!!!!!!!! Which private school ? How many to Williams ? TIA |
Anonymous
Nope |
Anonymous
I find it perplexing that someone would apply to both Williams and Vanderbilt. Williams is a small slac in the middle of nowhere. Vandy is a national university in the middle of a thriving city. They are very different. I think academically they're comparable these days. People seem to have very outdated views of both schools. Williams isn't quite the monkish bastion of intellectual pursuits that people seem to think it is. More than 40 percent of Williams students are recruited athletes. It's a rich jock school. And Vanderbilt is lot nerdier today than people seem to assume. The era of debutants and so on is a very long time ago. And more than 70 percent of students at Vandy come from outside the South, which is also not a monolith. You know people in the South are actual human beings with lots of different viewpoints. I think the biggest difference is that Vanderbilt offers a much broader array of possibilities than Williams. It's not 1950 anymore. |
Anonymous
I don't believe this for a moment. |
Anonymous
| 4 years in Williamstown no thanks. |
Anonymous
OK, I was wrong, in that it’s not the school I thought it was. But this school has ten kids going to Vanderbilt: @pc25schools_ |