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Anonymous wrote:For this year, W&L has reported a general acceptance rate of 13.56%:

https://www.wlu.edu/admissions/apply/new-class-profile

Wow—W&L is better than UVa?

Actually, UVA out of state selectivity is even lower than W&L overall at only 12.5%

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Anonymous wrote:Do they mention on the tour that Robert E Lee’s corpse is in their chapel? You can see the Lee crypt along what is like a shrine to Lee here at W&L- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2zjyTvoScQ

This is actually W&L ‘s best feature.

It took them until 2014 to move the Confederate flags to the museum. But they did move them to the museum.

Anonymous wrote:Do they mention on the tour that Robert E Lee’s corpse is in their chapel? You can see the Lee crypt along what is like a shrine to Lee here at W&L- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2zjyTvoScQ

This is actually W&L ‘s best feature.

W&L is a great school with small class sizes and is particularly strong in political science.

The things that would give me pause:

Its extremely expensive for what you get, especially relative to other strong Va publics
It’s still a regional school in name recognition
It being partly named after Robert E Lee is a problem for me, and they had a vote to change it recently and they didn’t.
It has all the challenges of UVA traditionally: too Greek, not diverse

My friend’s daughter goes there but on a full financial need based scholarship. Otherwise, I would not pay $90k/ year to go there

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For this year, W&L has reported a general acceptance rate of 13.56%:

https://www.wlu.edu/admissions/apply/new-class-profile

Wow—W&L is better than UVa?

Look they are apples and oranges. There is a good reason US News has liberal arts schools on a different list. Totally different kinds of schools! personally I prefer liberal arts schools and think you get a better education at them as a rule, but I would never say that W&L is "better."

You can't take one statistic and compare it to determine which is better, you can't even take three. W&L is a tiny school that can only take a small number, of course the admissions rate is low. It really doesn't tell you much. The schools have comparable SAT scores but a lot more first-years at UVA actually submitted their scores, which suggests that overall UVA's students have scored higher.

My anecdata is that I know a few kids who got into W&L but not UVA. I don't know anyone who got into UVA but was rejected from W&L, yet I am sure there are some.

Anonymous wrote:Does it have recognition outside of Virginia or the DMV? Forgive my ignorance but I grew up on the West Coast and went to a college in the NE and I had not heard of W&L until my 40s.

We are in NY area and W&L is seen as providing a different experience than some of the tippy top new england SLACs. Know kids considering W&L over Williams and Amherst for the reasons listed above - definitely known in NY area, and experiencing the same renaissance here for smart kids that the SEC schools are experiencing vs the northern state schools

Anonymous wrote:Is this one of the "colleges have better looking students" by DCUM standard?

Or one that on a “Labor Day weekend”, students do not “look so small?”

Anonymous wrote:Is this one of the "colleges have better looking students" by DCUM standard?

Do they have good genes?

Is this one of the "colleges have better looking students" by DCUM standard?

Do they mention on the tour that Robert E Lee’s corpse is in their chapel? You can see the Lee crypt along what is like a shrine to Lee here at W&L- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2zjyTvoScQ

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Anonymous wrote:80% white if you are comfortable with that.

W&L's site indicates that 69% of its incoming class are White students of domestic origin.

22% Domestic Students of Color
(students identifying as Asian American, African American, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander and multi-racial)

That means domestic student 80% white.

And of those that checked “Hispanic”, I would guess many look white.

People keep basing their comments on an an incorrect interpretation. As was corrected posted earlier, W&L's site indicates that 69% of its incoming class are White students of domestic origin.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:80% white if you are comfortable with that.

W&L's site indicates that 69% of its incoming class are White students of domestic origin.

22% Domestic Students of Color
(students identifying as Asian American, African American, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander and multi-racial)

That means domestic student 80% white.

And of those that checked “Hispanic”, I would guess many look white.

Anonymous wrote:Does it have recognition outside of Virginia or the DMV? Forgive my ignorance but I grew up on the West Coast and went to a college in the NE and I had not heard of W&L until my 40s.

For those who may have been unfamiliar with the school for geographical or cultural reasons, W&L may have become noticable for statistical reasons. For example, in this analysis from when standardized scoring represented a consistent component of college admission, W&L's profile matched that of the top UC and exceeded those of some highly regarded Northeastern LACs, such as Wesleyan and Middlebury:

The 610 Smartest Colleges in America - Business Insider https://share.google/OhfN1v3qPHYvxt3wi

Does it have recognition outside of Virginia or the DMV? Forgive my ignorance but I grew up on the West Coast and went to a college in the NE and I had not heard of W&L until my 40s.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For this year, W&L has reported a general acceptance rate of 13.56%:

https://www.wlu.edu/admissions/apply/new-class-profile

Wow—W&L is better than UVa?

Beyond its currently low acceptance rate, W&L has posted the highest standardized scoring profile in Virginia for most or all of at least the last 10 or 20 years. However, "better," as you would know, represents a subjective determination.