Anonymous wrote:Will the submarines be quirky?

Anonymous wrote:St John’s College would have been perfect. They also have no engineering dept!

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Anonymous wrote:I guess more students need to go tour the ISC complex. I got a sneak peek into ISC 4, home to the new data science school. The makerspace is very impressive. The whole science center deserves a look if you aren't familiar with WM and STEM.

Data science is not engineering. Do you want to travel 20,000 leagues underwater in a steel tube designed by a statistician who hasn’t taken advanced structures and physics classes?

Data science students aren't using makerspaces. That's the applied sciences program which does have engineering based paths of study http://wm.edu/as/appliedscience/

Thanks, W&M AO. Don’t you have applications you should be reviewing right now? Let us know if you ever add a real engineering program like ODU or VT.

DP
From the office of Tim Sands

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Anonymous wrote:I guess more students need to go tour the ISC complex. I got a sneak peek into ISC 4, home to the new data science school. The makerspace is very impressive. The whole science center deserves a look if you aren't familiar with WM and STEM.

Data science is not engineering. Do you want to travel 20,000 leagues underwater in a steel tube designed by a statistician who hasn’t taken advanced structures and physics classes?

Data science students aren't using makerspaces. That's the applied sciences program which does have engineering based paths of study http://wm.edu/as/appliedscience/

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Anonymous wrote:I guess more students need to go tour the ISC complex. I got a sneak peek into ISC 4, home to the new data science school. The makerspace is very impressive. The whole science center deserves a look if you aren't familiar with WM and STEM.

Data science is not engineering. Do you want to travel 20,000 leagues underwater in a steel tube designed by a statistician who hasn’t taken advanced structures and physics classes?

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Anonymous wrote:I guess more students need to go tour the ISC complex. I got a sneak peek into ISC 4, home to the new data science school. The makerspace is very impressive. The whole science center deserves a look if you aren't familiar with WM and STEM.

Data science is not engineering. Do you want to travel 20,000 leagues underwater in a steel tube designed by a statistician who hasn’t taken advanced structures and physics classes?

Anonymous wrote:I guess more students need to go tour the ISC complex. I got a sneak peek into ISC 4, home to the new data science school. The makerspace is very impressive. The whole science center deserves a look if you aren't familiar with WM and STEM.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought W&M was the school you attend if you want to major in poetry or womens studies. How does this happen?

Because you have zero idea what you are talking about.

New school of data analytics
New school of. Arnie Science with a massive endowment
Over half of its grads major in STEM
Now R1

Also, it’s doing a great job staying under the DEI/ Israel-Palestine culture wars radar.

No engineering.

No nuclear program.

Do they have a viable physics program?

Wth?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow.

W&M just became R1.

Amd opened 5 new dorms this year.

Has a new dining hall coming online in the next month or two.

Has the Gates Center in progress

Got a massive gift for the new Marine Science school (tuition is now free for marine science majors), and updated the VIMS campus (which has to help here)

And has another massive grant to attract/ lower tuition for OOS students.

And also huge infusion for the Data Analytics/ Physocs school.

Just started offering an interdisciplinary AI minor with any major.

And now is one of the few (non Hillsday/Liberty/Trump aligned) colleges in the country that has found a way to actually increase their federal research funding.

How many (non-religious, public) schools can you name that are pulling in more funding in 2025 than the year before? While managing not to not bend the knee to Trump (ahhmmm UVA).

And after tomorrow, Dems will have unified control of the Governorship and Legislature. So, it’s a safe state for women and stability among educational institutions.

And that’s one year.

We have three more years of Trump to go. If you are trying to read tea leaves, WM seems like an awfully good bet. It will be interesting to see if their ED numbers continue to shoot up.

This is all true. But why is there such little excitement about W&M in my kid’s school? Do they have a problem marketing to Gen Z? The boring and nerdy stereotype seems to be a big problem.

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Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense to me at all. Even that write-up was a bunch of liberal arts mumbo jumbo.

Maybe if you’d taken some liberal arts classes you would have comprehended. WM has a great IR/ national security/ WCG overlap with the new Marine Science program and Data Analytics programs. The new Gates Ceneterk the Charles Center, the Reves Center. And now has the VIMS campus on the coast. My kid did research with their War Games institute last year. They obviously aren’t doing the advanced engineering piece, but they bring a lot to the table.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought W&M was the school you attend if you want to major in poetry or womens studies. How does this happen?

Because you have zero idea what you are talking about.

New school of data analytics
New school of. Arnie Science with a massive endowment
Over half of its grads major in STEM
Now R1

Also, it’s doing a great job staying under the DEI/ Israel-Palestine culture wars radar.