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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Williams is tiny and half the kids there are legacies. [/quote]

Didn't help my kid, with straight A's in HS and a 4.53 wGPA, a 35 ACT, and good EC's.  Second kid who didn't get in to Williams, notwithstanding legacy status.  Both kids were easily qualified to get in.  I get that there are tons of super qualified kids who are rejected every year, but its really left a sour taste in my mouth.  Gonna be a while before I think fondly of Williams again.  I'll remember the good education and experience I had there, and I value the friends I made there, but I'm pretty mad at the College right now.[/quote]

Mine the same but 2 years ago. Straight A’s, 36 ACT, and goo EC’s, coming from a rigorous curriculum at a top HS. So, I completely understand your feelings.

The problem with Williams is that they sponsor just about every sport that NESCAC offers. With 800+ athletes at a college with 2000+ students, almost 40% of the admissions spots are taken before otherwise regular applicants are even considered, i.e. 200 of 500+ In a freshman clas are athletes. It seems that the priorities are screwy when this high a percent of the spots are claimed for those whose achievements are non-academic at what is supposedly top academic school.

But there’s more. 170+ international students are enrolled, or about 40+ per freshman class. With a number of other spots reserved for those with other hooks, it would seem that less than half of the spots of an incoming freshman class go to students based on academic merit. Among NESCAC members, the number of athletes at Williams is 2nd only to Tufts, a school almost triple its size.

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Thanks for this. [/quote]

I can’t imagine wanting to go one to one of these tiny schools if you’re not on a team. [/quote]

Are you saying that because your only experience of one of these schools was while on a team? It can be hard to imagine someone else's joyful, but different from yours, experience.[/quote]

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