<p>Hahahaha, W&M has more prestige nationally? Not in the West Coast. At Stanford, where I’m a graduate student, people look at me with a confused face when I say I went to W&M for a year…then I say, but I transferred to UVA, and then they instantly recognize UVA. It’s sad, but true…and of the very few who have happened to have heard of it, they don’t know that it’s a public institution and most of them think that it’s a LAC.</p>
<p>PS: When I was a freshman at W&M, the only OOS students I met were from Maryland, D.C., Pennsylvania, NJ and NY. I never met anyone outside of those places.</p>
<p>PSS: Swish14, aren’t you the guy who is known for knocking UVA every chance he gets? Did you not get in when you applied? What’s your beef with the school? Most students at W&M don’t have that complex that you seem to have. From my freshman dorm alone (I lived in Botetourt), 8 of us transferred to UVA, 1 transferred to GTown, 1 to UNH and 1 to UMD-Baltimore. On this forum, I have gotten quite a few messages from current W&M interested in transferring to UVA…yet, I have never heard of anyone transferring out of UVA. Why do you think that is?</p>