Anonymous wrote:Would a liberal be welcome at W&L?

PP here. There is about a 50/50 split liberals and conservative kids according to my kid. Most are pretty centrist/moderate. They allow all viewpoints on campus. Every 4 years they hold the Mock Convention and it alternates to the non-incumbent party. So next election , it will be the Democratic mock Convention. For the last Dem mock convention, They brought in as speakers: Donna Brazile, Trevor Noah, Andrew Gillum, Jim Acosta, Patti Solis, Nadine Strossen, Symone Sanders, Joe Donnelly plus others.

My kids’ friends are more liberal than conservative. The college republicans do have a stronger presence on campus than most NE liberal SLACs. The faculty is mostly liberal leaning.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought it was all male. It was in the Hampden Sydney, Hollins, Sweet Briar category when I was in college—for the rich less bright southern kids. But this was the early 90s. Even then WL was top of those.

As a native NoVA it always made me think of the HS in Arlington of the same name. (Renamed Washington Liberty)

W&L used to be an all male school; became co-ed in 1985 (although the law school at W&L admitted women in the early 1970s). Based on some who attended when it was all-male, there was a significant closeted gay population.

W&L has always had--and still has--a weird vibe. The Johnson Scholarship program tries to attract nicer students with generous scholarships. Need leadership potential, good grades, pass an interview, and have financial need if I recall correctly.

Beautiful location. Largest Greek population in the country.

No financial need required for the Johnson Scholarship. It is purely a merit scholarship. They use it to draw ivy-caliber kids and high achieving underrepresented kids to the school. My kid is at the school now. Their Johnson Friends are super-smart and very accomplished.

Would a liberal be welcome at W&L?

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in the top 1% and live in the south you know W&L. Otherwise you are not W&L’s target market. IYKYK

This is all you need to know about W&L. Full of smart, rich, accomplished and interesting kids from the best families in the South. A great fit for kids who want to be happy and successful. A poor fit for kids who think they'll find anything of value at Bryn Mawr or Oberlin.

That says it all. LOL

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in the top 1% and live in the south you know W&L. Otherwise you are not W&L’s target market. IYKYK

This is all you need to know about W&L. Full of smart, rich, accomplished and interesting kids from the best families in the South. A great fit for kids who want to be happy and successful. A poor fit for kids who think they'll find anything of value at Bryn Mawr or Oberlin.

The “best” families?

Yuck. And I know several of them.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in the top 1% and live in the south you know W&L. Otherwise you are not W&L’s target market. IYKYK

This is all you need to know about W&L. Full of smart, rich, accomplished and interesting kids from the best families in the South. A great fit for kids who want to be happy and successful. A poor fit for kids who think they'll find anything of value at Bryn Mawr or Oberlin.

Could a non-white family be considered best?

Anonymous wrote:If you are in the top 1% and live in the south you know W&L. Otherwise you are not W&L’s target market. IYKYK

This is all you need to know about W&L. Full of smart, rich, accomplished and interesting kids from the best families in the South. A great fit for kids who want to be happy and successful. A poor fit for kids who think they'll find anything of value at Bryn Mawr or Oberlin.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the most Greek schools.

You say that like it is a negative.

For most people that is a plus. Only dweebs and losers would think that is a detriment.

You’re the dweeb loser lol

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Anonymous wrote:I thought it was all male. It was in the Hampden Sydney, Hollins, Sweet Briar category when I was in college—for the rich less bright southern kids. But this was the early 90s. Even then WL was top of those.

As a native NoVA it always made me think of the HS in Arlington of the same name. (Renamed Washington Liberty)

W&L used to be an all male school; became co-ed in 1985 (although the law school at W&L admitted women in the early 1970s). Based on some who attended when it was all-male, there was a significant closeted gay population.

W&L has always had--and still has--a weird vibe. The Johnson Scholarship program tries to attract nicer students with generous scholarships. Need leadership potential, good grades, pass an interview, and have financial need if I recall correctly.

Beautiful location. Largest Greek population in the country.

I should have written: Highest percentage of students who go Greek of any school in the nation.

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Anonymous wrote:It had the weirdest vibe of all the schools we toured. And we have toured many!

Didn’t seem any different from any other LAC we visited. Seemed perfect for the DCUM demographic, and there were many such kids there when we went.

What really? It is much more southern and conservative than any of the LACs I visited with my kids. But granted, the others were in Pennsylvania and New England but still. I don't think it is perfect for the DCUM demographic, at least not my circles.

I didn't see anything southern or conservative about it when I was there. What was it that you saw that made you think that? There were no Confederate flags or Trump flags or anything. Every kid my kid talked to was another kid from NoVA. The presentation we saw featured some girl from Great Falls who was doing charity work in Africa. Total DCUM type kid.

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was all male. It was in the Hampden Sydney, Hollins, Sweet Briar category when I was in college—for the rich less bright southern kids. But this was the early 90s. Even then WL was top of those.

As a native NoVA it always made me think of the HS in Arlington of the same name. (Renamed Washington Liberty)

W&L used to be an all male school; became co-ed in 1985 (although the law school at W&L admitted women in the early 1970s). Based on some who attended when it was all-male, there was a significant closeted gay population.

W&L has always had--and still has--a weird vibe. The Johnson Scholarship program tries to attract nicer students with generous scholarships. Need leadership potential, good grades, pass an interview, and have financial need if I recall correctly.

Beautiful location. Largest Greek population in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:PP, why do you assume OP is a VA resident with in-state options there to consider for a lower cost? So many posters here make that assumption over and over again and it drives me crazy. Lots of us here are in MD and DC.

+10. The only VA schools I would consider paying OOS tuition for are UVA and W&M.

That’s odd because VT is ranked better than W&M.

Do you have an alert on your phone that lets you know WM has been mentioned in a thread? You chime in with this same comment on cue every time. I know you’re pushing this narrative despite publicly available information about the credentials of the kids accepted to UVA and WM being almost identical and the change is USN criteria accounting for the ranking changes. You don’t need to try this hard to make VT happen. It’s already a really good school with bright, talented kids, but this just makes you look desperate.

Deal with it

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Anonymous wrote:It had the weirdest vibe of all the schools we toured. And we have toured many!

yes there are always the “normal” schools like oberlin columbia and wesleyan for folks like you!

Name another college with dead confederates buried on the grounds. I’ll wait.

Edmund "Kirby" Smith is buried on campus at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Not as smart as you thought you were, are you? Now run along.

DP. You’re citing Sewanee as a defense of W&L?

Think you missed the point

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Anonymous wrote:PP, why do you assume OP is a VA resident with in-state options there to consider for a lower cost? So many posters here make that assumption over and over again and it drives me crazy. Lots of us here are in MD and DC.

+10. The only VA schools I would consider paying OOS tuition for are UVA and W&M.

That’s odd because VT is ranked better than W&M.

Do you have an alert on your phone that lets you know WM has been mentioned in a thread? You chime in with this same comment on cue every time. I know you’re pushing this narrative despite publicly available information about the credentials of the kids accepted to UVA and WM being almost identical and the change is USN criteria accounting for the ranking changes. You don’t need to try this hard to make VT happen. It’s already a really good school with bright, talented kids, but this just makes you look desperate.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the most Greek schools.

You say that like it is a negative.

For most people that is a plus. Only dweebs and losers would think that is a detriment.

DP.

Lol. I was in a fraternity and would definitely not want my kids going to a Greek-dominated school.

Has its place, but not front and center.