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[quote=Anonymous]Large, well-known universities**. Possibly there are local universities where professors don't teach classes and TA's do, but even then I find it somewhat hard to believe. Perhaps graduate students in their last year of research at the university might teach a whole class.

[quote=Anonymous]My DS is having a tough time deciding between WM and VT & UVA.  We were planning to visit VT and UVA before everything went virtual. He liked WM but is concerned it may too serious and boring.  None of his friends applied to WM.[/quote]

W&M is definitely very serious. A lot of students want to go to medical/law/business/graduate school so a lot of people care about their grades. You won't find this at other universities where people simply don't care about grades.
Grading in the humanities and essay-grading is going to be somewhat more harsh than UVA/VT. There is no big-time sports culture

W&M has its advantages over UVA/VT, but I think for many public school kids (especially male) whose conception of college is huge stadium sports, huge block parties, buzzing college towns, W&M is very disappointing. 
For example, UVA, Michgian, Berkeley have these attributes while having as good academics (possibly less so in humanities/government/IR) without being like how W&M. It's very much a liberal arts college. [/quote]

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