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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does "bro-y" mean?[/quote]

Open up high school yearbook to the varsity baseball or varsity lacrosse team page. Textbook definition of bro-y.[/quote]
I had to laugh. Guess it depends on the HS. Our HS barely has a lacrosse team and the baseball team is more like [i]The Bad News Bears[/i]. They’ve been Mercy Ruled in their first two games. Heavy sigh.

But, I think you’re right on the description. FWIW, the boys I know at WM are the anti-thesis of bros. Figures, they were band kids. Sample size of two, YMMV. LOL. [/quote]

Opposite. My brother played soccer there, WM.  Younger than Jon Stewart:)- so not on the team.  And his friends were not the description I see on here.

IN FACT--MY brother highly suggests my son pick WM over UVA [b]because UVA is so douchey.[/b]  My brother is 'beyond the bro'-- a higher level of cool where they look down on that striver, tight-*ss, lemming, polo-stuff. My son attends a private HS, plays a sport and also gets turned off by that kind of guy.  The fleece polar vest and ball cap crowd.[/quote]

Clones and lemmings that have a really distinctive 'brown-nose' personality.  I think of [b]Doug Neidermeyer in Animal House [/b](typical UVA bro) vs Eric Stratton (from the non-prep) frat.[/quote]

Perfect UVA stereotype.  Not saying its true, but its as true as the theater/dork stereotype people love to perpetuate in WM.

Vast majority are neither or somewhere in between at both schools.[/quote]

Exactly. I don’t know why some on this board insist on using “quirky” every time the school is mentioned. Vast majority of kids there don’t fall into any particular stereotype except that they did well in high school. Just like the vast majority at UVA are neither bro-y or douche-y. I realize that people like signifiers or shorthand to describe a student body, but your kids do themselves a disservice if they pay more attention to those than to common sense. A community of several thousand people is not going to be easily summarized by a word or two, and it’s certainly not going to be adequately represented by a single tour guide. [/quote]

W&M is great because it's a mixing pot of a million different types of people. There are people who fit into the stereotype, but there are also plenty of not. If you walk around campus on a Friday night, you'll see hundreds of drunk students walking around between parties and bars and Wawa. And other students are instead in academic buildings watching movies, or hanging with friends in dorms, or studying. [/quote]

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