College of William and Mary Top Questions

Small family community forming a public ivy league school.

William and Mary is the most challenging--yet the most rewarding--experience that one will ever have the opportunity to take on: it's rigors are buoyed by the dedication of the adademic body that surrounds you, and by the people you meet (both professors and students) that compell you to succeed at a whole new level of difficulty, right along beside them.

It is a very friendly environment but it can get a little intense sometimes, particularly at finals time- some people really pressure themselves to do extremely well, but there is about a fifty/fifty split.

My school is a good place to go to if you want to be able to put a lot of focus on your academics without being disturbed or pressured to do otherwise.

A forward thinking school seeped in old traditions that fosters its history and its students with a great love and understanding of the world around them.

William and Mary is an academically focused school where students are either shy and withdrawn and spend all of their time studying or they spend most of their time partying too hard.

It's a desert island in the open sea.

Spirited kids who like to be involved!

We are intense, but fun-loving.

Be prepared for the workload at this school. Get involved in a lot of things early on and then pick what you like best. Try to as active as you can but don't every compare yourself to other students because it will drive you crazy. Be yourself. College is what you make it.