Anonymous wrote:I think as a general rule many people don’t realize how competitive some programs are to get into at VT in state. Not just VT engineering. The admit rate for something like BIT is substantially lower than the overall in state admit rate for W&M and isn’t much higher than the UVA early action rate. About equal to the UVA early decision offer rate.

People might realize this, but reading a lot of posts in VT threads I don’t think many do.

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Anonymous wrote:The vibe for WM is small liberal arts. Nothing wrong with that a lot of people enjoy it, but it tends to generate a strong reaction. Either love or hate rarely meh.

No, that's not why some don't like it. There are plenty of liberal arts colleges that don't evince the kind of strong reaction W&M does among many. My DC applied to several SLACs but immediately wanted to leave when we visited W&M and sat in on an admissions presentation.

Interesting. We sat in on the admissions presentation a couple years ago. I don’t know if it’s the same person doing them, but she had an odd tone and style, as if she was a junior high or high school administrator. Maybe fine for high school, but it felt slightly unprofessional and overbearing at the college level. The campus and surrounding streets felt very quiet.

PP here. I should have been more specific - the students sitting around us are what did it for my DC. Just very peculiar and annoying. DC could tell immediately these were not DC's people. I actually don't remember much about the presenter because the kids around us were so distracting. It was almost like being held captive with a bunch of theater kids.

That was not my experience on a W&M tour at all. I would think so many kids tour it as part of the sort of VA grand college tour that you really can’t read anything from the kind of kids going on a tour.

Well, when you tour the other VA schools and do not sense that "vibe," you actually can attribute it at least somewhat to the types of kids who gravitate toward W&M.

Can we please stop talking about admissions presentations at W&M (especially from years ago) on this thread? It's totally irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:The vibe for WM is small liberal arts. Nothing wrong with that a lot of people enjoy it, but it tends to generate a strong reaction. Either love or hate rarely meh.

No, that's not why some don't like it. There are plenty of liberal arts colleges that don't evince the kind of strong reaction W&M does among many. My DC applied to several SLACs but immediately wanted to leave when we visited W&M and sat in on an admissions presentation.

Interesting. We sat in on the admissions presentation a couple years ago. I don’t know if it’s the same person doing them, but she had an odd tone and style, as if she was a junior high or high school administrator. Maybe fine for high school, but it felt slightly unprofessional and overbearing at the college level. The campus and surrounding streets felt very quiet.

PP here. I should have been more specific - the students sitting around us are what did it for my DC. Just very peculiar and annoying. DC could tell immediately these were not DC's people. I actually don't remember much about the presenter because the kids around us were so distracting. It was almost like being held captive with a bunch of theater kids.

That was not my experience on a W&M tour at all. I would think so many kids tour it as part of the sort of VA grand college tour that you really can’t read anything from the kind of kids going on a tour.

Well, when you tour the other VA schools and do not sense that "vibe," you actually can attribute it at least somewhat to the types of kids who gravitate toward W&M.

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Anonymous wrote:How is it not accurate? Are you saying VT is misrepresenting?

No, not at all. I think there is a glitch with that website. If you put in certain majors, you'll get a result of "0 people applied" but "7 people accepted," or something along those lines. Maybe it's not updated.

There is. Start out selecting all colleges, then department of CS in college of engineering, then deselect all the other colleges (undo the All).

It shows for 22/23
applied 18,398
offered 10,100
enrolled 2327

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Anonymous wrote:The vibe for WM is small liberal arts. Nothing wrong with that a lot of people enjoy it, but it tends to generate a strong reaction. Either love or hate rarely meh.

No, that's not why some don't like it. There are plenty of liberal arts colleges that don't evince the kind of strong reaction W&M does among many. My DC applied to several SLACs but immediately wanted to leave when we visited W&M and sat in on an admissions presentation.

Interesting. We sat in on the admissions presentation a couple years ago. I don’t know if it’s the same person doing them, but she had an odd tone and style, as if she was a junior high or high school administrator. Maybe fine for high school, but it felt slightly unprofessional and overbearing at the college level. The campus and surrounding streets felt very quiet.

PP here. I should have been more specific - the students sitting around us are what did it for my DC. Just very peculiar and annoying. DC could tell immediately these were not DC's people. I actually don't remember much about the presenter because the kids around us were so distracting. It was almost like being held captive with a bunch of theater kids.

That was not my experience on a W&M tour at all. I would think so many kids tour it as part of the sort of VA grand college tour that you really can’t read anything from the kind of kids going on a tour.

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Anonymous wrote:The vibe for WM is small liberal arts. Nothing wrong with that a lot of people enjoy it, but it tends to generate a strong reaction. Either love or hate rarely meh.

No, that's not why some don't like it. There are plenty of liberal arts colleges that don't evince the kind of strong reaction W&M does among many. My DC applied to several SLACs but immediately wanted to leave when we visited W&M and sat in on an admissions presentation.

Interesting. We sat in on the admissions presentation a couple years ago. I don’t know if it’s the same person doing them, but she had an odd tone and style, as if she was a junior high or high school administrator. Maybe fine for high school, but it felt slightly unprofessional and overbearing at the college level. The campus and surrounding streets felt very quiet.

PP here. I should have been more specific - the students sitting around us are what did it for my DC. Just very peculiar and annoying. DC could tell immediately these were not DC's people. I actually don't remember much about the presenter because the kids around us were so distracting. It was almost like being held captive with a bunch of theater kids.

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Anonymous wrote:How is it not accurate? Are you saying VT is misrepresenting?

No, not at all. I think there is a glitch with that website. If you put in certain majors, you'll get a result of "0 people applied" but "7 people accepted," or something along those lines. Maybe it's not updated.

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Anonymous wrote:The vibe for WM is small liberal arts. Nothing wrong with that a lot of people enjoy it, but it tends to generate a strong reaction. Either love or hate rarely meh.

No, that's not why some don't like it. There are plenty of liberal arts colleges that don't evince the kind of strong reaction W&M does among many. My DC applied to several SLACs but immediately wanted to leave when we visited W&M and sat in on an admissions presentation.

Interesting. We sat in on the admissions presentation a couple years ago. I don’t know if it’s the same person doing them, but she had an odd tone and style, as if she was a junior high or high school administrator. Maybe fine for high school, but it felt slightly unprofessional and overbearing at the college level. The campus and surrounding streets felt very quiet.

PP here. I should have been more specific - the students sitting around us are what did it for my DC. Just very peculiar and annoying. DC could tell immediately these were not DC's people. I actually don't remember much about the presenter because the kids around us were so distracting. It was almost like being held captive with a bunch of theater kids.

Anonymous wrote:How is it not accurate? Are you saying VT is misrepresenting?

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Anonymous wrote:The vibe for WM is small liberal arts. Nothing wrong with that a lot of people enjoy it, but it tends to generate a strong reaction. Either love or hate rarely meh.

No, that's not why some don't like it. There are plenty of liberal arts colleges that don't evince the kind of strong reaction W&M does among many. My DC applied to several SLACs but immediately wanted to leave when we visited W&M and sat in on an admissions presentation.

Interesting. We sat in on the admissions presentation a couple years ago. I don’t know if it’s the same person doing them, but she had an odd tone and style, as if she was a junior high or high school administrator. Maybe fine for high school, but it felt slightly unprofessional and overbearing at the college level. The campus and surrounding streets felt very quiet.

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Anonymous wrote:https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#college

Data per major

I'm not sure what's wrong with this website, but these aren't accurate.

How do you know? I am asking as this is what my junior is currently looking at.

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Anonymous wrote:https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#college

Data per major

I'm not sure what's wrong with this website, but these aren't accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:The vibe for WM is small liberal arts. Nothing wrong with that a lot of people enjoy it, but it tends to generate a strong reaction. Either love or hate rarely meh.

No, that's not why some don't like it. There are plenty of liberal arts colleges that don't evince the kind of strong reaction W&M does among many. My DC applied to several SLACs but immediately wanted to leave when we visited W&M and sat in on an admissions presentation.