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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I’m intrigued by the posts about high-stat students who initially struggled. It’s my sense that W&M, like other selective liberal arts colleges, place a premium on writing well. For a lot of high school students - even those with high GPAs and test scores - that is not a skill they’ve mastered. If this is a fair assessment, I’d like to hear more about these struggles and how these students eventually got it right. [b]Does W&M provide writing instruction/mentorship that helps students eventually meet their standards?[/b][/quote]

The professors graded my papers and provided significant feedback and suggestions for improvement.  I remember thinking they nearly wrote as much as I did on occasion.  They were also available as I was developing my thesis and working through rough drafts.  The focus wasn't on writing per se.  That was the finished product.  We had to read source materials critically and thoroughly, and construct our supporting arguments in a rigorous way.

I should note this was not limited to humanities and social sciences.  My STEM (science) friends often did supervised research and research papers in their junior and senior years.  It seemed to be good prep for graduate and medical school.[/quote]

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