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[quote=Anonymous]I don't have experience with William and Mary but I have a lot with Colby. It is a lovely school and area if you are okay with snow and long winters, with a surprisingly wonderful art museum. Very good faculty that cares about teaching.
Personally I would not have wanted to attend as a student, though. The feel there is is very upper-middle class white. They have made a concerted effort to increase diversity to get it up to the levels of Bates and Bowdoin and I think that, to some extent, they have succeeded in he last ten years. Not that long ago, I think there was less than ten percent non-white.

That said, well a lot depends on your child. I think race may be less of an issue than socio-economic background or generally a comfort level with with the "culture" there. When I was last there, 7 or 8 years ago, most of the diversity came from out-of-state kids on scholarship or a decent-sized population of very bright international students. These students varied in socio-economic status but they were not necessarily likely to go skiing at Sugarloaf every other weekend like a lot of the kids. And, as a result, they seemed a little bit like outsiders, too.

In sum, my impression of Colby was that the school means to be friendly and accepting but that student body was very homogenous, with very few exceptions.

As for academics, I can't compare but I would say the Colby students are pretty mediocre compared to Williams/Amherst etc. i assume William and Mary has much stronger students.[/quote]

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