<p>Received notification of my acceptance to both within two hours yesterday -- awesome right? Now, however, the excitement has given way to a spell of confusion as I realize I actually have to make a decision. Now, obviously, I expect a bit of bias with this being on the UVA forum, but try and take an omniscient perspective -- what would you do in my position? UVA or W&M?</p>
<p>Some additional info -- I feel fairly certain that I want to go for a double major with an additional minor or third major if possible. Some of my interests include creative writing, physics, and finance -- I like diversity. I realize that each school has individual strengths in certain areas (most notably McIntire at UVA) but, all things considered, what would you recommend?</p>
<p>I recommend that you take two weekdays off and visit both schools - not so much for tours, but to take a deeper look. Sitting in on a few classes can be most helpful, but it may be too late in the year for that. Instead, you might call the departments you are interested in at each school and schedule a 30 minute meeting with professors in each. I think that will really help you. UVA and W&M are both fantastic, but different. Some W&M strengths are smaller introductory class sizes, interested professors, a quiet laid back atmosphere, pretty good food, and a great new integrated sciences facility. UVA strengths include vast diversity in areas of study, an active atmosphere, an enthusiastic student body, great libraries, sports, and academic rigor.</p>
<p>I don’t believe UVa and W&M have the possibility to do triple majors. I know UVa doesn’t at least.</p>
<p>I would not focus about the major specialty so much in your decision especially since you don’t seem to know what you’re truly interested in. I second the opinion of visiting both. You should be able to figure out which you would rather spend 4 years at. The two schools have completely different “feels” and while some students can be happy at both, I think it’s safe to say that most students still have a preference for one or the other just because of their preferences or their personality.</p>
<p>Random - I was totally unaware you could schedule meetings with professors. I’m sort of weary about calling to schedule one though with finals week either looming or already underway. Is meeting with profs common practice? I dont want to be a viewed as a burden on these people</p>
<p>There has been tons of previous discussion on this question on this message board. If you do a google search on it, use “site:collegeconfidential.com” without the www in the search term.</p>