OOS Accepted D Must Visit this Friday!

Colleges and Universities A-Z College of William and Mary
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<p>Yes, 35% of our students are from out-of-state. Not sure which tour you attended but one of our guides on Friday afternoon is also from IL so not sure if that helps your son feel better. We get about 50 students a year from the midwest and we have students from 48 states and 54 countries. If you check out page 253 in the PDF/page 248 of the of the course catalog (<a href=“http://www.wm.edu/offices/registrar/documents/catalog/UGCatalog.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/offices/registrar/documents/catalog/UGCatalog.pdf&lt;/a&gt;) you can see where all of our students come from.</p>

<p>The nice thing is also that even though 65% of our students are from VA, VA is a very diverse state. Northern VA is very cosmoplitan with a lot of first-generation American students and children of diplomats who’ve lived all over the world. Our part of VA is very military and so again many families who’ve lived everywhere. Richmond still has some Southern culture to it and the western part of the state is quite rural and agrarian and therefore has its own flavor.</p>

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<p>@dumbparent – what is nice about the local kids is that if your son needs a place to stay before or after a vacation or a semester break or needs to store a bike or someone to pick him up at the airport or some such, he has friends with parents and houses relatively nearby. </p>

<p>However, my D has loads of friends who are out of state.</p>

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<p>Great point mom4college. IS students are generally very willing to assist OOS students with some of the trickier logistical matters of being farther away from home.</p>