<p>I was recently admitted to Williams, but I'm having trouble deciding if I really want to go there. So if you guys give me 50 satisfying reasons, I pledge to attend Williams. Give it your best shot.</p>
<p>Reasons to attend Williams and reasons to attend Williams vs Yale are two separate issues. Were you accepted by Yale?</p>
<p>Don’t do it. Go to Yale.</p>
<p>Um…Yale’s name sounds better. Williams somehow always reminds me of two of my least favourite tennis players…lol.</p>
<p>Attempting reverse psychology over here, are we not?</p>
<p>If you’re uncertain, Williams doesn’t seem right for you.</p>
<ol>
<li>realistic opportunity for close rapport w/ professors</li>
<li>use of socratic method in classes</li>
<li>NO T.A.'s teach classes</li>
<li>great 1st year writing class</li>
<li>no classes after 4</li>
<li>WMS has it’s own digs at Oxford so you can do an Oxford exchange fpr a year…you are actually enrolled at Oxford…</li>
<li>great profs</li>
<li>good looking students</li>
<li>small school/ tight community</li>
<li>easy access to great skiing</li>
<li>safe environs</li>
<li>charming town “where everybody (could) know your name”</li>
<li>“life of thr mind” is not just propaganda at WMS </li>
<li>great art museum and art program</li>
<li> most frosh get singles</li>
<li>athletic facilities are just the right size not super sized</li>
<li>great xc coach</li>
<li>close to nature…bucolic setting</li>
<li>Alumni are tight and will help you get your foot in the door</li>
<li>school color and mascot is unique…</li>
<li>lots of “traditions” like climbing a hill to be served donuts </li>
<li>one of the very best liberal arts education anywhere</li>
<li>afterwards…you can go anywhere to grad school</li>
<li>less choices sometimes is less complicated</li>
<li>J Term!</li>
<li>Chance to go to Barbados for a grade in January is amazing</li>
<li>you will not be lost in the crowd</li>
<li> Many students are athletically inclined…over 40% are on a Varsity team BUT football does not dominate </li>
<li>lots of school spirit</li>
<li>students reach out to the community and do lots of community service</li>
<li>students get invited to the President’s house for dinner</li>
<li>students get money to take professors out to lunch</li>
<li>not into competitive sports…intramural is big too.</li>
<li>it’s easy and quick o get around campus</li>
<li>dressing is easy…just but your clothes out of a jcrew or lands end catalog</li>
<li>honor system is real and noy lip service </li>
<li>friends made are friends for life</li>
<li>dorms are above average</li>
<li>food is above average</li>
<li>great coffee spot</li>
<li>wms plays in the Quiditch Tournament</li>
<li>how do you learn best? if it’s discussion based WMS excells at that</li>
<li>advisors care and really want to help</li>
<li>focus on undergraduate education</li>
<li>great opportunities for research w/ professors since there are no grads<br></li>
<li>less posturing</li>
<li>amazing professors you can understand when they teach</li>
<li>easy to double major</li>
<li>country setting vs. urban</li>
<li>the place to go for those that don’t like gothic architecture</li>
</ol>
<p>There! 50 reasons…if you’ve got to ask… see you at Yale!</p>
<p>That was simply impressive. You should give that list to the admissions office. It certainly brought up many points I had not considered about Williams</p>
<h2>6. WMS has it’s own digs at Oxford so you can do an Oxford exchange fpr a year…you are actually enrolled at Oxford…</h2>
<p>Yeah,that’s a major attraction for me.</p>
<p>If you really are going to use this thread to determine where you go to college, you don’t deserve to go to Williams.</p>
<p>Repeating the message you have been getting from everyone else. Do not go to Williams.</p>
<p>If prestige makes or break you as a person, then go to Yale.</p>
<p>I’m giving you this advice having made an assumption about your ethnicity.</p>
<p>Go to Yale.</p>
<p>Why you applied to a school in the first place without knowing for certain why you would enroll there is confusing beyond all of us.</p>
<p>dang carpeveum, that is definitely impressive!! </p>
<p>If you really need people to prove that Williams is better than it seems like you have already made your decision, go to Yale. Let carpeveum go in your place. S/he obviously deserves it!</p>
<p>let’s give the OP the benefit of the doubt and assume he/she meant to elicit reasons why she should attend one school over the other, not that she is leaving her fate to a a CC forum to decide. ;)</p>
<p>the reasons for attending Williams over Yale are many and manifold if Williams is the right fit for you. Williams occupies a pretty unique place in the pantheon of American higher education and (much as I may mock it in the spirit of sibling rivalry) is deserving of anyone’s consideration as a first choice college.</p>
<p>I am not an idiot obviously. and if you actually thought this thread would determine my future, well joke’s on you. I just wanted to see what you guys could come up with, and I figured I probably wouldn’t get any response if I made it too “normal”. Anyway thanks carpevum for taking time to list some reasons I never thought about, and I hope rest of you guys can stop bashing me about this whole thing. Ok?</p>
<p>I’d choose Yale. But that’s just me - they’re both amazing schools! Good luck deciding - these really are two outstanding options. :)</p>
<p>Speaking as an enrolled student, I hope that you choose Yale. Anyone despicable enough to use a professional editing service for their essays doesn’t belong at Williams.</p>
<p>What? Did you seriously use a professional editing service? Not cool…</p>
<p>But in response to previous posts, many of the reasons listed are not by any means unique to Williams - Yale boasts some of those things too. For example, you cite great arts at Williams as a reason to go there. Last time I checked, Yale offers one of the best (if not the best) arts educations outside of art schools (not to mention the drama dept). Just saying…</p>
<p>But then again, I am horribly biased…</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t think the choice between these two is that hard – both offer great educations and great post-grad opportunities, and in each case you’ll be surrounded by brilliant, talented peers. The question is, do you prefer a small, intimate environment in a beautiful but relatively remote rural setting, surrounded by mountains, golf courses, ski slopes, art museums, woods, and charm, but little in the way or urban amenitities like bars, nightlife, and so on, or would you rather be in a larger, less undergrad-focused (but with more variety of classes, departments, etc.) institution set in a busier, urban setting with a lot more happening off campus, both good (restaurants, bars, city life) and bad (crime, urban grit). New Haven and Williamstown really could not be more different … if you are still undecided despite such a dramatically different setting, then I’d turn to more specific attributes each has to offer, like Winter Study and tutorials at Williams, and whatever Yale’s unique quirks are. I think Williams vs. a more closely comparable peer like Amherst, Dartmouth, Princeton is really a much tougher call to make …</p>
<p>…it comes down to the unique attributes, and what you identify with.</p>