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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fantastic school.  $40K for instate tuition is too high.[/quote]

That includes everything, Tuition, fees, room, board, books and travel.  [/quote]

PP here - still too high. UMD tuition, fees, room + board is ~ $25K[/quote]

W&M isn't competing with UMD for students.  Not a problem.  [/quote]

Understood. Yet it is still comparable. [b]There aren’t many (any?) schools charging an in-state rate that high[/b].[/quote]

UVA gets fairly close when you factor in additional costs for different schools and the fact that tuition increases each year (or you pay extra to be enrolled in tuition freeze). But W&M is really more like a public liberal arts college--since it only has 6000 undergrads and a highly developed liberal arts core, so interested students are often comparing it to the cost of attending a private school. Its peer institutions that are national private liberal arts colleges cost far more.  But this is all part of the "hard to classify" quality of W&M.  I think it's doing great--it consistently attracts a really high caliber of students and serves them well--they have great graduation rates, excellent career and grad school outcomes, and high alumni engagement.

One weird fact I heard--not sure of its accuracy--is that 25% of W&M alumni eventually marry other W&M alumni so something about the school creates bonds...
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One thing that struck me about the four lead donors for the Kaplan Arena renovation and new sports performance center is that they are actually two married alumni couples (Katie Garrett Boehly ’95 and Todd Boehly ’96, and Jennifer Tepper Mackesy ’91 and D. Scott Mackesy ’91).

https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/wm-announces-kaplan-arena-revitalization-and-new-sports-performance-center.php[/quote]

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