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<p>Many parents I’ve known who’d refuse to pay for their kids to attend BU, NYU, or other expensive private schools with miserly levels of financial aid and/or where the academic levels were perceived as “too low” would happily pay for their kids to attend William and Mary. </p>
<p>Academically, William & Mary in my area(NYC) was considered on par with the respectable/elite colleges whereas the abovenamed ones weren’t considered better…and sometimes arguably worse than some of our better public state/local colleges.</p>