<p>Hi! I got in Regular Decision last Thursday and wanted to know who else has gotten in! I'm international (Lima, Perú) and I thought the letter would take a long time to get here. The funny thing is that not only did it get here before April, it got here before the supposed date of writing: March 28th (I recieved it on March 23rd).</p>
<p>I'm seriously considering attending W&L, but all the talk of the dependence on the Greek system and such is making it a hard call for me...I find it a little hard to believe that the students are actually so closed-minded as everyone makes them to be. Is that just a faulty over generalization? I wouldn't like to be shut down due to any liberal ideas I have.</p>
<p>Hope to hear from the rest of you soon! :D</p>
<p>It is true, the hazing is absurd. It is said that TWO MEN might enter a fraternity at W&L, but that only ONE MAN may leave.</p>
<p>Perhaps you should visit the campus and attend one of the many "Raves" they have in the admissions office every night. </p>
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<li>Mario Vaz, Jr.</li>
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<p>WHO HERE WANTS TO TRY IT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Mario, I know you're probably kidding around (or at least I hope you are, lying is simply dishonorable) but it may not come across well on forums and taken literally. I would definitely be for raves in the admissions office. I do work-study there and all I get is papercuts . . .</p>
<p>It's not very often that only two men pledge a fraternity in a year - and is definitely a horrid year for the frat - but it's true that often only one or so pledges leaves out of a class of about 15-20. There are the rare students who find out frat life isn't for them during pledgeship. But the other 14-19 never leave - they become brothers.</p>
<p>Chaneda - I don't understand how having an active Greek Life makes students closed-minded. We have plenty of liberals here and many of them are Greek - Greek Life is not for conservatives only, if it was I wouldn't be Greek.</p>
<p>What I meant Dima343 by closed mindedness was if people's ideologies are liberal. The reason I asked this was because on several sites (princetonreview.com, studentsreview.com) Washington and Lee comes off as a univrsity where everyone has the same, or pretty much the same, mindset. Those who do not think like the majority are isolated from the rest of the student body. Is this true, and if so to what extent? </p>
<p>My concern is that any ideas I may have might be withheld from the scholar community simply because of fear of social reprisal once classes are out. It does me no good, indeed it does NO ONE good, to do well academically and advance one's mind without balancing out the social needs of every individual and the ability to express our thoughts and feelings. To make it short, are the bad vibes people are giving off about W&L based on any concrete facts? Or can I rest assure that I will not be shut down for my ideas, as different as they may be from the majority of the students there?</p>
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Mario, I know you're probably kidding around (or at least I hope you are, lying is simply dishonorable) but it may not come across well on forums and taken literally. I would definitely be for raves in the admissions office. I do work-study there and all I get is papercuts . . .
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<p>Yep, I was kidding. Where I come from your hands are chopped off if you lie. Exaggerations, on the other hand, are the main way I get the women. Talk about treading a thin line!</p>
<p>Happy to finally be in America. LET ME TELL YOU.</p>
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<li>The VAZ</li>
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<p>YOU WANT TO TRY IT!?!?!</p>
<p>Chaneda, Washington and Lee students come from all over the country and the world - the spectrum of ideas is so vast that it is imposible for any one group to silence anyone. I am considered moderate in New York City which means that at W&L, I'm a raving liberal - but I don't find any social reprisal from anything that I say during or outside of classes and neither do any of my friends who are liberal. If you start organizing a violent Communist revolution . . . well, then there may be problems . . .</p>
<p>I am a international too, and haven't got a letter. This is a bad sign...........</p>
<p>I'm an international n haven't heard from WnL 2</p>