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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eph ‘03 here. Remember that reality happens and you might be too stressed/overworked to even take up a tutorial- they’ve improved, but before only 30ish% of students took up tutorial. It also can be extremely taxing not having anywhere to go. Williams is very isolated and as a woman of color growing into herself, I do think it was a bit of a detriment to be so far away from anything of interest.

The math department is very strong. One of Williams’ golden Children up there with Econ. I was an art history major which…had some support, not as much as those majors for sure. Seeing where my class went, if DC wants to be a researcher, head over to Pomona. Most of the math majors in my class ran straight to finance. [/quote]
Very important consideration. You are likely to not take a tutorial, or not be prepared to take one. [b]Williams is MUCH more pre professional and ivy-like culturally than Pomona, which is closer to Stanford.[/b][/quote]

I do think Williams is more ivy-like culturally than all of the other SLACS, for the better and for the worse. Its academics are incredibly impressive (there's a reason it's the perpetual #1), yes including the tutorials, but we also detected snobbishness in professors and students we didn't care for. Our student tour guide said the gulf between wealthy and financial-aid kids was problematic and was especially hard to deal with during the long, remote winters. So much to love about it, but DC worried about being happy there. We ended up crossing it off the list. Loved the feel of Pomona and the consortium, especially the opportunity to take classes at Mudd. DC not eager to go that far, and really not a warm-weather kid in general, but there wasn't anything about Pomona we didn't like.[/quote]

Its endowment is the reason it’s number one and the exact same reason that Amherst is number two.

The academics are great but they are not greater than Amherst, Swat, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley, Pomona, Haverford, Carleton, and likely several others. They are all uniformly superior to any other undergraduate academic environment and more alike than different.
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