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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP and PP with a current student, our Dd is seriously considering W&M. Do you have any sense of what campus life is like for a student who would not be looking to join a sorority? Are clubs difficult to get into?[/quote]

DP; alum and parent of prospective students here.

Others have answered as I was going to, about it being easy to get involved in campus life even without getting involved in Greek life, so I'll just add another note in that vein. The idea of "belonging" is central to the W&M experience. In fact, it's the very first item in their [url=https://www.wm.edu/about/administration/vision-mission-values/]statement of values[/url]. Cynics, I know, probably chafe at something as pedestrian as a statement of values, but I'm happy to report that cynicism doesn't really find a home at W&M. It's a place of earnest, genuine, happy, thoughtful people.

We're OOS, so the numbers might not end up working out for our family, but we're really hoping that W&M works out for our twins. To give some context, our oldest is a junior at UC Berkeley and is having about as good an experience as one could hope for —[b] she's taken a number of interesting undergrad and grad-level courses, has been able to teach a 1-credit course several times,[/b] has held a campus job where she directed other students in research, is in a promising internship right now, and has received travel grants to travel and study across Europe. So by all measures, it's going well. But when it came time for our class-of-2025 twins to apply to schools this past fall, they didn't even bother with Cal, as the more engaged, more undergraduate-teaching-focused W&M experience was far, far more appealing to them.[/quote]

I've never heard of an undergraduate teaching a course.  Interesting.[/quote]

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