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Campus Profile - The College of William and Mary
hello this is kathleen of American
College strategies and I'd like to
welcome you to the campus of the College
of William and Mary I visited here on a
really wet and rainy day and it was
pretty quiet most of the students were
studying for final exams but the rain
the wet and the quietness still didn't
take away from the beauty that
surrounded me on this campus William and
Mary actually is the second oldest
university in the USA it was founded in
1693 and it would have been the first
university except the founding was
interrupted by a rising from the Indian
nation and the magnificence on this
campus is palpable with buildings dating
back to the early 1700s and late 1600s
William and Mary is a public university
and considered what is known as the
public Ivies a public ivy is a school or
university that gives a student in Ivy
League education and a fraction of the
cost
so William and Mary is one of those
prestigious public Ivies that said it's
not that easy to get into William and
Mary
it is a public university and about 33%
of the applicants are accepted 85% of
the students accepted have a 3.75 GPA or
higher their SAT scores run between 1890
and 2190 that's their average and the
average AC T is between 29 and 33 so you
need to be a very strong student if
you're looking to go to William and Mary
they only have about just under 6300
undergrads and about 2100 graduates
so it's a really great size of a campus
it's not too small of 1,500 and it's not
really big like a 10,000 or a 30,000
nice size 6300 student body campus with
31% of the students of color and 45% of
their students actually studying abroad
which is the number one public
university with students studying abroad
while a public university and based in
Williamsburg Virginia William and Mary
has a few other small campus sites one
in Washington DC and one in Glouster
Point which has their marine science
campus and they are a couple of words
that a lot of people use to describe
William and Mary and its makeup not only
its campus but what kind of curriculum
and education they give and those words
are diversity community service and it's
the number one school sending the most
students into the Peace Corps
sustainability and research so those are
four key components that really make up
what William and Mary ends know as they
walked around the campus I mean these
old buildings very ivy-covered just a
beautiful feel the students I saw we're
walking through woods and over bridges
and over ponds and they're all even with
studying looked liked having a grand
time so with that long history there's
some things that I think you need to
know when you're looking at schools and
looking at William and Mary the first
honor code in the United States was
developed at William and Mary Phi Beta
Kappa the academic Greek organization
was founded there in 1776 three United
States presidents have graduated from
there Thomas Jefferson John Tyler and
James Monroe and you could count George
Washington while he didn't graduate from
there he did get his surveyor
certificate from William and Mary it's
ranked as the number one best
undergraduate teaching in a public
university it's number three American
top college for a State College
number five best college for
out-of-state students there's a couple
of programs that are really renowned
their marketing their sustainability
accounting business international
relations and there's a really great
program when I was on campus I was
speaking to admissions and we had a
great one-on-one talk and I had
mentioned to her that I had toured some
schools in England and Scotland and I
had visited st. Andrews and she talked
to me about this great joint degree
program that the College of William and
Mary has with st. Andrews in Scotland so
this joint degree program is year spent
two years at each of the universities -
at William and Mary - its st. Andrews
you get one degree but with an honours
and international honours and you
actually get to spend two years at each
school they also have the same thing st.
Andrew students come over to William and
Mary as well so it's kind of an exchange
you could certainly if you don't want to
do that program you can certainly do a
shorter semester at st. Andrews or other
schools or year at st. Andrews that this
is actually a joint degree program and
it really kind of joins the best of the
William and Mary and st. Andrews
education the William and Mary's liberal
arts education with it's rooted in the
Arts and Sciences and the really
in-depth education that you get it's st.
Andrews so I wanted to talk about the
liberal arts education and the William
and Mary course catalog has a great
definition of it and I'm going to quote
this a liberal arts education although
it has no single fixed definition is
more than a haphazard accumulation of
courses it's essential purpose is to
liberate and broaden the mind to produce
men and women with vision and
perspective as well as specific
practical skills and knowledge now
that's a great definition of a liberal
arts education so don't let anybody tell
you that you only have to look in the
sciences in math
liberal arts education is prepare you
for the world along with the William and
Mary deep roots and history they have
incredible traditions that all students
take part of the beginning convocation
where students march in through the red
portico the Wren building is the oldest
building on campus and it was designed
by Sir Christopher Wren and after they
marched through at the beginning of
freshman year they have a picnic and
live music the Yule Log every year with
the president of the college dresses as
Santa Claus and reads a story one year
he read the Grinch that stole Christmas
this is done every year with a big Yule
Log burning at the end of the academic
year every year there is a king and
queen ball it's done in the sunken
garden where everybody goes into the
garden is a giant party food and live
music and the night before graduation
once again the students march through
the rain portico for a candle lighting
ceremony passing the light from graduate
to graduate symbolizing the William Mary
logo which is one tribe one family
really want you to look at William and
Mary they have some great programs that
you can look at for overnight visits and
from meeting students on campus and
being interviewed on campus take a look
at it public university a public ivy and
an fabulous location you've got to see
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