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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's definitely that southern WASP-y Garden and Gun culture, but also a lot of kids from NY/NJ/PA. Diversity is living on the Mainline vs. McLean, lol. Ultra preppy, wealthy students who are actually smart and study a lot.

There is a strong work hard, play hard culture aka partying is very important. The school has made it difficult to have alcohol on campus so students rent houses out in the country, leading to some terrible drunk driving tragedies.

https://roanoke.com/news/virginia/drunken-driver-in-crash-that-killed-w-l-classmate-to-serve-3-years/article_04e2fbc4-a08c-5b07-a8cc-1776a45d7521.html

I think what would give me pause about W&L is that the profs grade very hard. So GPAs are lower, putting students who want to go to grad school a disadvantage. The counterargument is "oh, they'll be impressed by the W&L degree" but...hmm.[/quote]

Very few schools really grade hard any more, and that included W&L.  According to Gradeinflation.com, a website that collects average GPAs at schools, the average GPA at W&L was 3.44 in 2015.  In comparison, William & Mary was 3.33 in 2014, UVA was 3.32 in 2013, Virginia Tech was 3.15 in 2015, JMU was 3.15 in 2013, and ODU was 2.75 in 2014.   [/quote]

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