<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>I was admitted off the WM waitlist on Friday. My second choice was BU, due to my placement into the business school as a freshman and because I am considered as an honors student there.</p>
<p>I'm interested in studying business, but is W&M really right for me if it's kind of in the middle of nowhere and I cannot even get into the biz school until junior year?</p>
<p>Also, what is the campus and social life like?</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>BU and W&M are obviously quite different places. Are prices a factor in your decision?</p>
<p>I would disagree with your premise that W&M is in the middle of nowhere - and the stats for business students getting good jobs would agree. Washington DC is less than 3 hours away and W&M has an office/campus there. Tons of companies come to W&M to recruit - including the top DC consulting firms. Richmond and Norfolk/VA Beach each have over a million people and are about 45 minutes away and contain major Fortune 500 companies. If you want to study the business model of tourist based industries, you must look no further than Colonial Williamsburg - which is literally at the steps to the school.</p>
<p>B-school admissions are not overly strenuous once you are in W&M. Most students with a decent GPA get in, so as long as you try to do well in your classes that will not be a problem.</p>
<p>The Mason school of business has an awesome new gargantuan building that is outfitted with the latest technology including what I believe are simulations of trading rooms.</p>
<p>The Mason school of business is ranked higher than Boston University’s ([Top</a> Undergraduate Business Programs 2010 - BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/10rankings/?chan=magazine+channel_special+report]Top”>http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/10rankings/?chan=magazine+channel_special+report)), and it consistently gets some of the top spots for best professors and many great departments like accounting.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I don’t have time to answer the questions about campus and social life as I would be tempted to go on for paragraphs more (and I have a paper to finish), but if you look around some of the other threads you can get an idea. I’m sure someone else will post soon too. Have you visited campus before?</p>
<p>I can add that many top business schools do not admit until the Jr. year. You really need a grasp of many disciplines. Financial reasons, and personal fit are your best decision makers.</p>
<p>That you were rejected at U-Va with your record confirms the randomness of the whole process. You should have gotten in, but I digress.</p>
<p>I don’t care how big they are, Hampton Roads and Richmond do not offer anywhere near the opportunities or diversions that Boston does, plus neither is particularly convenient to the Williamsburg campus (which really is in the middle of nowhere compared to BU). Without question BU would offer a more interesting/fun experience. Nonetheless, unless you’re wealthy and money is no object it would be just plain silly for you to go to BU over William and Mary’s in state tution. William and Mary has a better business school and overall better reputation. Save your money for an MBA. </p>
<p>If you’re thinking with your head and not your heart, this is an easy decision. William and Mary.</p>
<p>^Boston is “without question” more fun than Williamsburg? As someone who hates big cities, I am almost certain of the fact that I would have more fun in Williamsburg.</p>
<p>Ah, thanks for your input everyone!</p>
<p>I have visited, but it was kind of dead when I did and I didn’t like it, but I will just have to decide for myself. This is going to be a really tough decision, but I thank you all!</p>
<p>Oh, by the way! I really want to use my guaranteed transfer I received from Cornell. If I keep a 3.3 my freshman year, I will be admitted into Cornell. Yet, I don’t know if that would be possible at William and Mary because I’ve heard that some of the classes are impossible!</p>
<p>if you want to use a guaranteed transfer, you should go to the easiest school on your list. It is unlikely that school is W&M.</p>
<p>unquestionably W&M! 
I agree with Drought, big cities are blehhh 
But good luck and congrats!!!</p>
<p>It’s very hard to have a very high GPA at WM, but getting a 3.3 as a freshman is not all that difficult. If you really want to transfer to Cornell I’d just do CC for a year though.</p>
<p>I don’t know a whole lot about William and Mary because I am an incoming student, but the business building is beautiful and it makes me almost want to be a business major even though I don’t have any interest in business. Just another thing to consider.</p>
<p>Unless you just love Boston, cold winters, Celtics, Red Sox, go to W&M.</p>
<p>Agreed that Williamsburg and Boston are not at all similar but Richmond and Norfolk which are generally accessible to offer much bigger-city opportunities relatively close to W&M’s campus and W&M’s B. School prides itself on providing a business degree within a liberal arts curriculum. It’s nice to be able to take classes outside of your particular discipline throughout college which W&M’s B. School allows you to do.</p>
<p>Note that it might be advisable to give whichever school you pick a chance rather than setting your sights on a guaranteed transfer. You could end up falling in love with BU or W&M.</p>