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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thread is just absurd.  William and Mary provides the best undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences of any public institution in the country.  It exists first and foremost for undergraduates and always has and always will.  It's really old and really hard.  If you don't want to work, if you want to party and follow big time college sports go elsewhere.  Sadly, many young people today will do this and get a degree, but not an education.

It is in a class by itself.  [/quote]

But that's not the point of this thread. The point is that students are less interested in attending W&M today.  And key metrics are in decline, including applications, acceptance rate, rank, yield, etc.  So the OP was wondering what was driving that.  Several posters have weighed in that there is a problem with the culture and brand of the school.  If "it's really old and really hard" is going to be the school's mantra, then it can expect the slide to continue.

In my opinion, they need to embrace the history and academic rigor, but then add to the experience with additional school spirit, community, and a sense of adventure.  But those additional things are not apparent to most who visit and consider the school.  [/quote]

What was apparent to me, on visiting for the first time in years, was a truly beautiful and safe seeming campus with lots of building projects going on.  And yet ... the numbers are what they are and William and Mary now ranks below Florida.   William and Mary’s  complaining about a lack of money is as old as 1693.  But they just have a limited pool of very rich donors who are probably exhausted after the billion dollar fundraising campaign.  The key problem is, how does this school become popular in nova again?  I don’t see an easy answer.   [/quote]

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