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[quote=Anonymous]My son was offered YiW last year and my strongest possible advice is you need to take the 3 days it takes to go there and look around. There’s a beautiful restored hotel (The Inn at Wise) and 2 or 3 restaurants downtown. The college is maybe 2 miles from downtown.

I am a) pro rural Virginia and b) pro Appalachia (extended family there) but it’s going to be a major cultural adjustment for any student from NoVa.

There are only 600 students on campus which means that YiW is about 16-17% of the on-campus population. Athletes are the other significant population on campus. There are perhaps another several hundred who live in nearby apartments, but the balance of students are commuting from home and/or going home every weekend. For lack of a better term, the college seemed underpopulated both on the weekend we were there and on the Monday tour.

My son wanted UVA and understood this was a viable path, but ultimately decided it was too isolated and chose elsewhere. [/quote]

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