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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]William and Mary is like a SLAC.  A lot of kids don't want that anymore.  They want a city school or a big D1 school with football.

What William and Mary does have going for it is the cost of attendance for Virgina residents.
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I don't really get the slac comparison. It's got 7k undergrads, D1 athletics, and a number of different undergraduate schools. The people who compare it to a slac are the boosters who think only slacs can have good academics [/quote]

It's not a typical state school or flagship environment.  SLAC might not be the 100% comparison, but W&M is a lot more like small or medium-sized privates than it is like a state university.  Not better or worse, but different.
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Yes it is for sure more similar to medium sized privates, but I would compare it more to schools like Wake, Tufts, Lehigh and Boston College rather than a SLAC. SLACs by definition are a small student population and little or no graduate program presence.[/quote]

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