I don't have any connection to William & Mary, but people who haven't heard of it are a bit ignorant of American academia. It is the second oldest school in the country (Harvard was the first). If you only get your college knowledge from sports, sure, it is less famous. But it has a lot of famous alum, from Thomas Jefferson to Oscar winner Cord Jefferson.

Anonymous wrote:Would be great to see if one of you Techies could run a language analysis of posts to see college bias on DCUM. My best guess it would be like:

Biased positive:
HYP
Brown
MIT
UVA
WASP minus the P
Rice
Duke

Balanced:
Dartmouth
BC
Notre Dame
Penn
Michigan
Miami
Tulane
Texas

Biased negative:
Cornell
Stanford
Northeastern
Georgetown
Chicago
Pomona + other non WAS SLAC
Cal system
Columbia

Can be done. But who cares???!!!

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern— balanced
Tulane—negative
Wash U—negative
Hopkins—negative

This is what I was coming to post. JHU has a much better reputation and public rating outside DCUM than inside. On DCUM, there are a lot of people who have never been there, but like to castigate it because it is in Baltimore, a city they despite, but again, have never been to.

JHU alum who knows that most of what is posted on DCUM about JHU, is false.

William and Mary has students from 49 states in it's last class, so there must some who know about it.

lol! DC1 is at an OOS flagship that’s disdained by many here. And we’re thrilled that they have left the east coast elitist bubble and are having a great education and experience!

Northwestern— balanced
Tulane—negative
Wash U—negative
Hopkins—negative

Anonymous wrote:Would be great to see if one of you Techies could run a language analysis of posts to see college bias on DCUM. My best guess it would be like:

Biased positive:
HYP
Brown
MIT
UVA
WASP minus the P
Rice
Duke

Balanced:
Dartmouth
BC
Notre Dame
Penn
Michigan
Miami
Tulane
Texas

Biased negative:
Cornell
Stanford
Northeastern
Georgetown
Chicago
Pomona + other non WAS SLAC
Cal system
Columbia

Harvard and Yale definitely not biased positive - they get a lot of hate here.

Anonymous wrote:DCUM dislikes ND

Agree, but it isn't discussed or bashed as often as those on the negative list, and there are plenty of boosters here as well.

oh no, William & Mary won’t do

Anonymous wrote:they love W&M while the rest of the country doesnt even know what it is

NJ prep: we love W&Mary ! It's very popular, considered just a notch below ivies, hard to get into out of state. I think people in Virginia do not realize how lucky they are to have it as IN state, for tuition as well as slightly easier admission.

Anonymous wrote:DCUM: "There's no school we won't crap on, but, as a whole, we spread our hate fairly evenly."

Reddit: "Our bias turns on the most recent USNWR rankings as well as the schools our parents think are the most prestigious."

College Confidential: "We love SLACs and the NESCAC most of all; large public schools are adequate if you're poor, but if you're not, it would be insanity to choose Berkeley over Wesleyan. Did you know the latter is in the NESCAC?"

Accurate!

UNO is the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

I'm not in the DMV -- I lived there roughly 1992-99. I'm really struggling to come up with where W&M is located -- I'm thinking either Massachusetts or Virginia? But I want to see how long I can go before looking it up. (Kind of like how I try to see how many days I can go before accidentally finding out who won the Superbowl.)

And I checked the box on the SAT for SLACs 40 years ago in high school and got brochures from hundreds of SLACs.

And I worked on and supported software decades ago that was purchased by hundreds of colleges/universities across the country. (Though I once accidentally insulted someone from UNO for not knowing that the person who called me out of the blue was from the University of New Orleans.)

Anonymous wrote:they love W&M while the rest of the country doesnt even know what it is

Not sure this is accurate. It’s not a household name everywhere but I’m not from this area and I knew that it’s a very good school.

Anonymous wrote:I think the 3rd tier schools are hyped a lot.
Mostly because the majority demographic of DCUM doesn’t care about them

UF
UGA
Wisconsin
Clemson
Pitt
Indiana especially Kelley
Purdue

I've been on DCUM for literally decades now. ahem. Could not agree more with the above list.

People piss their pants over Wisconsin and act as if they've never heard of Washington before. Same for Indiana vs. Iowa, and Pitt vs. Minnesota.

I have no opinion on any of these schools (except for UWisconsin, which is way overhyped inside the beltway).