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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It puts me in the actual depths of despair that a kid who got into Williams is thinking of going Vanderbilt instead.[/quote]

I find it perplexing that someone would apply to both Williams and Vanderbilt. Williams is a small slac in the middle of nowhere. Vandy is a national university in the middle of a thriving city. They are very different.

I think academically they're comparable these days. People seem to have very outdated views of both schools. Williams isn't quite the monkish bastion of intellectual pursuits that people seem to think it is. More than 40 percent of Williams students are recruited athletes. It's a rich jock school. And Vanderbilt is lot nerdier today than people seem to assume. The era of debutants and so on is a very long time ago. And more than 70 percent of students at Vandy come from outside the South, which is also not a monolith. You know people in the South are actual human beings with lots of different viewpoints.

I think the biggest difference is that Vanderbilt offers a much broader array of possibilities than Williams. It's not 1950 anymore.  [/quote]

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