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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We toured Washington & Lee.  In our child's assessment the 85% Greek membership and drinking culture was not acceptable.  Very little diversity.  It is difficult to get into, although after touring, I'm not quite sure why.[/quote]

[b]I'm not sure, either. What's the draw and how did they become so selective?[/quote][/b]

I really don't know.  We put it on the tour list because it's the no. 1 SLAC in the south.  We were doing UVA , Va Tech and VMI during the sweep.  Nothing about it was appealing.  Maybe because it was a hot and muggy day and few dorms at W & L have AC (turnoff for DC who had just spent a miserable summer in similar dorms at an Ivy).  The tour officer was off-putting, going into great detail as to how difficult it was to get in ED1 and ED2 (this was two years ago, so maybe has changed).  The buildings looked run-down. Lee's Memorial Chapel was pretty but I could see how minority students might find it uncomfortable there with Traveler's bones in the basement.  DS wanted aerospace engineering so it was clear this was not going to be a good fit early on.  The drinking culture starts thurs night and runs thru sunday night. I didn't like the fact that so much of the campus was Greek and it was expensive Greek.   it was explained to me by someone who actually works there that this creates a "have" and "have nots" caste system on campus because even the minority /scholarship students can't afford to participate in the Greek life because it costs so much to join up.  Even if they are full freight scholarship students, they can't afford the Greek fees.  Also, the rents off-campus in the immediate down are ridiculously high because the owners know they can charge whatever they want and many are in unsafe condition. So students move even farther off campus Then we were told about the girl who had died flying through a car window when 11 kids were trying to get back to campus, drunk, after an off-campus party.  that did it for us.  Maybe legacies whose parents were really into Greek life want to go there.  I don't see the magic at all.[/quote]

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