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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I just got back from touring W & Lee. It's bloody hell expensive and wery few minorities (General Lee is lying in state there in the chapel). It's difficult to get into (although I don't know why after touring). What goes unsaid is that 80% of the students pledge to a frat or sorority and those are VERY expensive, so, according to a professor friend, you wind up with a skewed population of the very rich who can afford to go there AND pay for the rights to belong a frat or sorority versus the kids who are there on generous financial aid packages and cannot pledge a frat, or sorority. There is also a serious off-campus drinking problem. A girl recently died when she was in a car with 11 (article says ten, but faculty told me 11) kids in one car returning drunk from a frat. party in the country - the girl was sitting on someone's lap and she's no longer with us. The young man's life is over too - he's up for manslaughter charges which will be followed by a civil action. However, if you are AA, I think W&L will bend over backwards to get you because so few AAs attend because General Lee and Traveller are very much a fixture on campus. My kid was really turned off. I was turned off. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/washington-lee...rsity/1585713-w-l-tragedy.html  
 
 
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That's interesting, but I don't know if I would trust the source: college confidential.  My son has a friend who is a grad from there.  She's a very nice person and she loved it there.[/quote]

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