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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He is a Business major and unsure what he wants to do career wise or if he will attend graduate school. He has excellent grades and has played Varsity sports.  He is a serious student who also enjoys having a balanced social life.  W&M is attractive to him because he attends a private school where there is small class sizes and great interaction with professors.  I think he is afraid of W&M being all study and no fun and I am not sure if he is a fraternity type.  I don't think he needs the fandom of UVA/VT but would like to attend sporting events to support his school.

W&M is the only college he is visited and he has done the virtual tour of UVA and VT.  He likes the school spirit but has never stepped foot on either campus to see if the size or environment is a fit.[/quote]

There are a lot of students at W&M from private, Catholic and prep schools. If he likes the culture I think he will fit in fine at W&M.

There are sporting events at W&M so certainly he can attend those. The crowd size is far smaller but frankly, I've always thought of the big-stadium sports events with tailgating to not be very interesting.

For business major, UVA is probably better if he can get into McIntire. There are large investment banks, private equity and top management consulting firms that recruit that UVA that don't at W&M. Of course he needs to have a very high GPA (3.7+) with lots of leadership to get into those firms from UVA, but at least they recruit at UVA; they don't recruit at W&M at all. Not saying W&M students can't get a job at those firms, but it requires far more networking and getting references from parent's network than at UVA where they can simply walk up to the booth at the career fair.

If he plays varsity sports, he should be able to get into the club sports team, which provides an immediate social group and they do a lot of social events. And that's also a good way to join a frat if he wants to, a lot of the same business school students are simultaneously in club sports and fraternities.

Again for social life he will need to join social groups/clubs, club sports or fraternities (or all of them). 
The college town is non-existent, there are no clubs and there are three bars that are very mediocre. It's not the same as say, a city college like NYU where you can go clubbing and social outings with a small group of close friends - you can't do that at W&M because there are no clubbing or social outings outside of the school environment itself. It's entirely house parties with other students from the college. 
Some students go all the way to Richmond to spend a night at bars/clubs, which is 45mins-1hour away. Its not reasonable but its an example of how mediocre the college town is. [/quote]

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