Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not Competitive: https://flowingdata.com/2024/07/16/more-or-less-college-admissions-time/#:~:text=It's%20gotten%20more%20difficult%20to,changed%20with%20the%20chart%20below.

This just says W&M has gotten *more* difficult to get into between 2001 and 2022. Not sure how you get “not competitive” from that.

+1 Lol

Anonymous wrote:Don’t really care about perceived prestige or competitiveness. Why do you think that’s important? Bragging rights?

What are the academics like? How are they doing on substance?

Undergraduate teaching has long been the focus, and most undergraduates do mentored research projects with faculty. The school has always ranked and rated high in quality of teaching (USNWR, Niche, Princeton Review) and is at or near the top in USNWR for low student-to-faculty and class size among national public universities. W&M also has the highest percentage of graduates that go on to get PhDs among national public universities. It ranks at or near the top for national public universities in the percentage of students receiving Fulbright scholarships, joining the Peace Corps, and studying abroad. It has a high graduation rate and it had the highest percentage of alumni giving back to the school among national public universities when USNWR still included that metric.

Don’t really care about perceived prestige or competitiveness. Why do you think that’s important? Bragging rights?

What are the academics like? How are they doing on substance?

Anonymous wrote:Not Competitive: https://flowingdata.com/2024/07/16/more-or-less-college-admissions-time/#:~:text=It's%20gotten%20more%20difficult%20to,changed%20with%20the%20chart%20below.

This just says W&M has gotten *more* difficult to get into between 2001 and 2022. Not sure how you get “not competitive” from that.

Anonymous wrote:Not Competitive: https://flowingdata.com/2024/07/16/more-or-less-college-admissions-time/#:~:text=It's%20gotten%20more%20difficult%20to,changed%20with%20the%20chart%20below.

Not convincing. It never says not competitive. Prepscholar says strongly competitive.

Not Competitive: https://flowingdata.com/2024/07/16/more-or-less-college-admissions-time/#:~:text=It's%20gotten%20more%20difficult%20to,changed%20with%20the%20chart%20below.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not the PP but I agree. William & Mary has fallen off. I would put other schools in VA well ahead of W&M which was not the same case in the 90s.

Well, you’d be wringing your hands if that apart from UVA.
VT is arguably a great school but no one considers it more difficult to get into than W&M.

Great school for va residents in par with uva.

Anonymous wrote:Random people weighing in anonymously who may or may not have any experience with the college is odd.

That is DCUM in a nutshell.

Anonymous wrote:completely agree with OP. W&M is basically resting on its reputation from the past. Education is good but mediocre.

The OP said education is still great.