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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who doesn’t know about Williams and their superlative undergraduate program doesn’t deserve to have an opinion on this. The Ivies have tried to emulate the LAC model directly from Amherst and Williams. None of them offer winter study and individualized tutorials. Williams is arguably a stronger education than at least HYS (Princeton is the only comparable Ivy academically)[/quote]
What a bunch of BS. Williams has tried its hardest to replicate the things it sees the ivies excel at. HYPSM all have better undergraduate education than Williams with 20-100x the amount of course selection and depth of content. Williams is great for the mediocre upper middle class kid that went to boarding school and needs 1-on-1 attention to climb, but any competitive student will have so many more resources at an ivy, especially these days.[/quote]

You have no experience with Williams.

Almost anyone who has attended Williams and then HYPSM after- a notable contingency, given that HYP tend to be the top graduate school destinations- will tell you how substantial the difference in teaching excellence, mentorship, and feedback on assignments and projects is available to the average undergrad at Williams compared to that at the university. They will also highlight the clear residential focus of Williams and the deep camaraderie in the community that is not readily found at most Ivies.

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What? No you’re wrong. Harvard has a much better “residential focus” than Williams. Just having a few dorms on campus doesn’t make your housing any special. You think the residential colleges at Yale are being trounced by Williams college? Please!

You have more opportunities at ivy, including working with people from those graduate institutions that Williams grads cling to for approval. My first year Yale DD is currently working in a lab by a well known neuroscience researcher, because those opportunities are easy to come by; meanwhile, a Williams student has to find and place into a very competitive REU just to get the same opportunity. Every rec letter DD will get is from a well known researcher, meanwhile, Williams grads have to outsource from REUs to get the same result.[/quote]

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