Reply to William and Mary experience for NOVA kids

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "William and Mary experience for NOVA kids"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is a freshman at W&M; we live in NoVa and he went to a private school.  He had a good ACT score but middling grades... we were surprised he got in.  HE loves it and is having a great year.  The worst aspect has been the freshman dorms (awful) and the food (gross).  Like the previous poster, my son also joined a fraternity and has found a good group of kids to hang with.  His looking forward to living in the frat house on campus next year (a significant upgrade from his freshman dorm).  He plays on a competitive W&M club sport team, one that travels not just around VA but around the region; he also plays on a bunch of the IM teams they offer, like soccer, basketball and team handball.  He has found the classes to be challenging, but not insurmountably so; he received an A- and Bs in all his fall classes.  He is undecided in his major, and so his advisor was assigned to him; and although he is not going to be in her field, she has been helpful and kind.  He chose W&M because of its size; none of us wanted him to go to a large school. . In fact, W&M was the biggest school he applied to.[/quote]

I have a girl who is in love with W&M.  Can you expand on [b]what’s wrong with the dorms and food[/b]?  We could only see a model room which was pretty basic, but fine.  And we did not get to eat on campus.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who has a freshman who is really enjoying W&M.  He lives in Green and Gold Village, which is a large freshman complex by the Kaplan Arena.  The complex was originally built as the fraternity houses.  They DO NOT have air conditioning and many of the other freshmen dorms do not as well - not sure of the percentage without air.  His dorm has two floors of lounge space and the lounge space is air conditioned.  The first month of school, the only time he was in his room was to sleep.  It was just too hot.  But on the positive, he probably became closer to his dorm mates because they were in the same boat.  No one was in their room  They all hung out in one of the lounges.  They designated one of the lounges as the quiet lounge for studying and the other one as the social lounge for watching tv, playing games, etc.  My DS loves the location of his dorm.  He's in an area of campus that has a large number of dorms and close to amenities like a cafeteria, the rec center and the Kaplan Arena.   I don't know where all the freshmen dorms are located but I do know there is a small one by the Admissions Office and another one in the Market Square shopping area.

My DS complains about the food but doesn't really state specifically what he dislikes about the food.  There are two all you can eat cafeterias.  One across the street from where he lives (by the Kaplan Arena) and one in the Sadler Center in the center of campus.  There is an ala carte cafeteria where he can use his meal swipes (not dining dollars) that is near the Admissions Office.  He says they have the best food but it's quite a walk from his dorm so he usually only eats there during the week for lunch.  There are a couple of places where he can use his dining dollars but he doesn't go there all the time.  He only has enough dining dollars for about 20 meals, so a little more than once a week.

Hope this helps!
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics