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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the problems with W&M is that it's extremely strict on grading (which would be fine if not for), student codes, and social codes.

It's a [b]very conservative social culture.[/b] Not necessarily politically conservative or religious, but conservative as in very judgemental of any freedom/liberties. It's really not a good place to find yourself in as a college kid when you want to be exploring the world. Large part of this is being in the South.

Also there's a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby it has a terrible reputation as a school socially, and only those that don't care about social culture go there, realize that it has a terrible social culture and don't enjoy their time there, tell others that it has a terrible social culture, etc.

A lot of male kids that go their do so because they didn't get into UVA, which worsens resentment towards the already extremely bad school.

Being in Williamsburg, a terrible town by any standard full of retirees and the type of tourists who want to go to Colonial Williamsburg (again, retirees), further worsens the deficits of the school.

The only good part of W&M is that its better to go there than massive 30,000-student public schools for those majoring in certain humanities - English, etc. - because of the small class sizes although the course selection is very limited. STEM and [b]Business education[/b] are both terribly weak.

But anyone not majoring in humanities and anyone that can go to private LACs and mid-sized universities should do so.

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I wouldn't say that at all--very open to LGBTQ+, many diverse perspectives. Kids can be athletic, nerdy, middle of the road, outdoorsy, artsy--there's not a strong common type.

And their business school is highly regarded.  STEM varies (though obviously marine biology is top-notch).   If you're an alum, you're in the minority for your bitterness because W&M regularly gets rated among the top in the country in terms of alum support. If you're not an alum, I'm wondering what's informing your thinking.[/quote]
There is indeed a very small group of LGBTQ+ students. You should ask them how open they find the rest of the school to be. The answer is very obvious: not very, unless you are comparing to rural Alabama.

[b]Their business school is not highly regarded[/b], it's at best mediocre for a Southern school and when compared to other public schools/flagships. Perhaps if you compare it to say, Eastern Tennessee University it's 'good'.

[b]Their STEM is terrible.[/b] Yes VIMs and NASA helps them with a few faculty for Biology and Physics, but those subjects are still very mediocre and no where near good STEM public schools (i.e. UIUC, Purdue, Berkeley, Michigan, etc.). The rest of the sciences and Math are utterly terrible. Engineering and Technology doesn't exist obviously[/quote]

You are just a troll that wants to throw some stuff out there and see if you can make it stick.  The business school ranks 13th out of about 800 or so U.S. business schools that are accredited for ROI after 5 years according according to Poets and Quants.  It is 12th after 10 years.   W&M produces a higher percentage of graduates that go on to earn STEM PhDs than any national public university other than UC Berkeley.   Medical school admission rate has long been about 25 percentage points over the national average.[/quote]

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