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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I went to Williams. My cousin my age and her husband went to Vassar. (Surprisingly we both met and started dating our spouses our freshman year of college.)

Neither my husband nor I were serious athletes (I played a JV sport fall of freshman and sophomore years and he played on the ultimate team) and neither of us ended up in banking either. He’s a PhD scientist and I’m a federal analyst. My cousin is a policy researcher for a foundation and her husband is an attorney.

Although Williams is 3 hrs to Boston and 3 hours to NYC, the only people I knew who seemed unhappy were those who left to go to one of those cities most weekends. I get the sense that Vassar is a lot less rural (I haven’t visited). I went to see a play in NYC once while I was in college for a class but otherwise it wasn’t a trip my friends and I were making.

As a senior in high school I spent a night here applying and was assigned to room with freshman from LA. She said she hated athletic events, went to one party and didn’t go to any others because they served alcohol and that made her uncomfortable, and had hoped to go to Columbia because she preferred cities but that Williams gave her better financial aid. I asked if she was considering transferring. She looked at me, baffled, and said “Are you kidding? The classes are amazing - the professors are all so accessible - and the students are so motivated and interesting.” Her pitch was a big factor in me applying early (and she did stay and graduate from Williams). 
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