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Anonymous wrote:It’s a weird combo - academically tough for admission but a total party school once you are there for pretty southern rich white kids. Lots of TX, MS, GA kids.

I went there and this is very accurate.

Agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I’d venture it’s less desirable to VA kids because it competes with UVA and W&M for interest and loses that battle.

W&L is way better than W&M.

No

Yes it is. Smarter, better looking students

W&M 82% in the top 10% with 39% with reported rank. W&L with 78% in top 10% of class with only 26% of students reporting rank. W&L is more or less taking high standardized test score kids that may well not have great grades or class rank. W&L doesn't report GPA. W&M average GPA is 4.3 with 89% reporting GPA.

W&L SAT mid 50 is 1530-1410 vs. 1520-1360 at W&M, so W&L is a bit higher at the low end, but it is also quite a bit less diverse than W&M (which certainly isn't the most diverse).

The W&M gpa stat is utterly worthless as it’s a weighted gpa which is total garbage. Weighted GPAs are the standard of upper SES suburban public schools to artificially inflate their students profiles. By using those garbage numbers, W&M makes itself look better than it is and plays into the absurd rich public school house of cards.

At least it reports a GPA, unlike W&L. Any state school in Virginia has to report GPA to SCHEV, and also reports on the Common Data Set. W&L is reporting next to nothing, mostly just standardized tests. No class rank for 74% and no GPA for 100% of incoming class.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I’d venture it’s less desirable to VA kids because it competes with UVA and W&M for interest and loses that battle.

W&L is way better than W&M.

No

Yes it is. Smarter, better looking students

W&M 82% in the top 10% with 39% with reported rank. W&L with 78% in top 10% of class with only 26% of students reporting rank. W&L is more or less taking high standardized test score kids that may well not have great grades or class rank. W&L doesn't report GPA. W&M average GPA is 4.3 with 89% reporting GPA.

W&L SAT mid 50 is 1530-1410 vs. 1520-1360 at W&M, so W&L is a bit higher at the low end, but it is also quite a bit less diverse than W&M (which certainly isn't the most diverse).

The W&M gpa stat is utterly worthless as it’s a weighted gpa which is total garbage. Weighted GPAs are the standard of upper SES suburban public schools to artificially inflate their students profiles. By using those garbage numbers, W&M makes itself look better than it is and plays into the absurd rich public school house of cards.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I’d venture it’s less desirable to VA kids because it competes with UVA and W&M for interest and loses that battle.

W&L is way better than W&M.

No

Yes it is. Smarter, better looking students

W&M 82% in the top 10% with 39% with reported rank. W&L with 78% in top 10% of class with only 26% of students reporting rank. W&L is more or less taking high standardized test score kids that may well not have great grades or class rank. W&L doesn't report GPA. W&M average GPA is 4.3 with 89% reporting GPA.

W&L SAT mid 50 is 1530-1410 vs. 1520-1360 at W&M, so W&L is a bit higher at the low end, but it is also quite a bit less diverse than W&M (which certainly isn't the most diverse).

""The name never bothered me," said Thomas W. Penn, a 1974 Black alum whose son also attended the university. "Lee Chapel, though, was a bit spooky with all its Confederate stuff." Lee is buried in a crypt beneath the chapel named for him."

""You know exactly what you're getting into when you go to W&L," echoed Ford, noting that W&L held an event commemorating the 100th anniversary of Lee's death the same year he began his studies. "To the Lost Cause people, the town of Lexington and the W&L campus are special. It's their mecca.""

https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/washington-and-lee-university-keeps-name/

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a good school but it’s too “southern money” and Greek for most NoVa kids. NoVa kids want prestige (T20 or so) or value (UVA) W & L is very good education but it’s got a particular social vibe that these kids aren’t interested in.

Wow. Talk about generalizing and projecting your own opinions onto 17 year old kids.

Only if you’re new to this board. I answered based on what I read here. You new? Or an attention-seeking troll?

My personal story is that my own kid didn’t like it. We visited. Felt just like a small rich southern high school. And it’s the size of most NoVa high schools. Good education? Yes. Appealing to DMV kids? Not so much.

I know many NOVA/ DMV kids who find it very appealing.

Yeah they just can’t say it because they’ll get canceled.
The school is not generally racist, that’s just insulting and ignorant to say. It has a complicated history just like most old education institutions in this country.

Many kids from the NE. School is similar to any of the other SLAC.
W&L is a great school - alumnus here

" Under Lee’s leadership, his students would, among other things, form a KKK chapter and harass and assault Black school children. The board of trustees of Washington College honored this legacy when it decided to rename its institution Washington and Lee University."

" After significant and critical national attention, Lee was finally put on trial at the place where his body is buried. Not guilty, the board of trustees announced on Friday. The vote was not even close—a supermajority of trustees (22 out of 28 trustees, or 78 percent) voted to retain Lee as a namesake. That vote, however, did more. It signaled that Washington and Lee University will continue to shine as a beacon of racism, hate, and privilege."

(Of the 28 trustees, 25 are white, and 23 are male.)

(https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/white-supremacy-washington-and-lee-robert.html)

Oh, it’s the “SAT score = talent” guy. I thought he and this kid were different people. Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a good school but it’s too “southern money” and Greek for most NoVa kids. NoVa kids want prestige (T20 or so) or value (UVA) W & L is very good education but it’s got a particular social vibe that these kids aren’t interested in.

Wow. Talk about generalizing and projecting your own opinions onto 17 year old kids.

Only if you’re new to this board. I answered based on what I read here. You new? Or an attention-seeking troll?

My personal story is that my own kid didn’t like it. We visited. Felt just like a small rich southern high school. And it’s the size of most NoVa high schools. Good education? Yes. Appealing to DMV kids? Not so much.

I know many NOVA/ DMV kids who find it very appealing.

Yeah they just can’t say it because they’ll get canceled.
The school is not generally racist, that’s just insulting and ignorant to say. It has a complicated history just like most old education institutions in this country.

Many kids from the NE. School is similar to any of the other SLAC.
W&L is a great school - alumnus here

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W&L is way better than W&M.

Say more…

Check out the test score averages and the "talent" on both campuses. Enough said.