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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. My DS really liked W&M and is also struggling to find safeties he likes. He’s visited [b]several potential safeties but has been disappointed.[/b] I know safeties are important so he’s continuing to look. He also likes some selective LACs.  We are OOS so not necessarily interested in other VA schools.  [/quote]

Having gone through this with my DD, I would suggest a process rather than specific schools:

1) I would try to find out more about what he liked about W&M--as it's a quite unusual place (I know my DD liked: Strong liberal arts focus and feel, but 6000 students so feels bigger; as one of the oldest schools in the country deep historic tradition and feel to the campus; students are intellectually curious not just pre-professionally focused; lots of opportunities for student research on important seeming grants).  This will help you know what he likes.

2) I would pick apart what he found disappointing about safety options.  This will help you know what he doesn't like.

3) Identify safeties that have as many features of the things he liked about W&M as possible.  For my DD this went the direction of small liberal arts colleges that were less selective.  But I could see it for someone else who liked W&M, it going the direction of that mid-sized feel, so safeties might be regional public universities with a liberal arts core.[/quote]

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