<p>Just noticed that the UVA thread had a topic along these lines, and thought it would be fun to do for W&M.</p>
<p>So....where else have you applied other than W&M? Have you already been accepted somewhere early action? And what is your order of preference if you get in everywhere you apply?</p>
<p>William and Mary, Miami (Ohio) [Accepted Already], Colgate University, Duke (Deferred ED), Vanderbilt, Richmond, UVA, Wake Forest, Washington University in St. Louis, Northwestern, Boston College and Emory.</p>
<p>Duke is my first choice but after that I have no preferences, Ill visit the campuses and make a decision.</p>
<p>William and Mary, Duke, Northwestern, Boston College, Princeton, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, UPenn, Cornell, Georgetown, U of Notre Dame, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U in St Louis</p>
<p>Like the above, Duke is my favorite as well. After that, it’ll take campus visits to decide where I want to go.</p>
<p>I applied to Northeastern (accepted early action with honors program and dean’s scholarship), Brown, UVA, William & Mary, Virginia Tech, UNC (deferred Early Action), Tulane, and UC Berkeley</p>
<p>note: instate for virginia schools</p>
<p>William and Mary is one of my top choices after Brown (but i probably have no shot at Brown)</p>
<p>i’m a transfer student and I applied to UNC, NC State and W&M</p>
<p>Our ISS applied ED and was excepted. If he was denied or deferred, he would have applied to UVA, Duke, Dartmouth,Cornell,RPI</p>
<p>umm you mean accepted??</p>
<p>Thx McBainTrain 
I kept looking at that spelling and thinking it just didn’t look right! Also shows you why I didn’t go to W&M . LOL</p>
<p>No shame in saying W & M is my first choice!</p>
<p>I did apply to a couple Ivy’s and some safeties, though.</p>
<p>haha berliner! everyone makes spelling mistakes, don’t worry about it :)</p>
<p>University of Florida, Clemson, Wash U., Emory, Boston College; accepted to Wisconsin, Penn State, Alabama, South Carolina, Iowa, Indiana.</p>
<p>In addition to W&M, I’ve applied to UNC, UVA, Elon, UMD, Vanderbilt, and Emory</p>
<p>i was accepted ED, but my list consisted of Boston University, Colgate, Middlebury, UVA & 5 UCAS schools which included LSE, st. andrews, edinburgh and some safeties. I am an instate VA student.</p>
<p>If people are curious, our biggest overlap school in terms of applicants who apply to both is UVA (likely no surprise there). After that we have lots of overlap with Duke, Georgetown, UPenn, Brown, Tufts, UNC, Tech, Dartmouth, UNC, Davidson, Cornell, etc.</p>
<p>^ Yay overlap with Brown, Tufts, and Penn =) W&M actually came up as #1 most compatible and Tufts as #2 on the College Confidential Supermatch, which I didn’t do until after I had applied. I was surprised- they’re both great schools, and I like them both a lot, but I never really thought they were that similar besides in selectivity. </p>
<p>I know this probably isn’t a big overlap school and it’s not very well-known out of state, but TCNJ (The College of New Jersey) has got a very similar feel to W&M and a somewhat comparable acceptance rate for instate students at least. In VA, UVa and W&M are the big and small state school that attract similar students; in NJ, we have a similar deal with Rutgers and TCNJ. I’m surprised there’s not more overlap between William and Mary and TCNJ- the only student in my high school that I know of to be accepted to W&M ended up going to TCNJ and I’d assume there would be more overlap at least for NJ students.</p>
<p>W&M Tufts certainly aren’t similar in location but they’re both small/mid-sized selective liberal arts colleges so that’s likely why there’s some decent overlap.</p>
<p>As for TCNJ, there may be a good deal of overlap there amongst our New Jersey students but it may not chart as much overall for the rest of W&M applicants. We get about 850 applications a year from NJ out of around 13,000 overall so the overlap among those 850 likely isn’t as much as the overlap that exists throughout our whole pool for some of the other schools mentioned</p>
<p>My DD was accepted ED to W&M, but if that hadn’t worked out, she was also planning to apply to:</p>
<p>Brown
Boston College
Colgate
Tulane
JMU</p>
<p>Duke might also have been a good fit based on size and good academics, but we never got down there to visit, so it never made her list.</p>
<p>Go Tribe!</p>
<p>DD applied to many of the usual suspects, but also included Williams - she was accepted there, but the combination of price and staggering remoteness/isolation made W&M a fairly easy choice over that. There was really no other choices - she had many more acceptances, but it was like 1a, 1b), then 14th place …</p>
<p>People who complain that Williamsburg is too small or too remote or has too little to do clearly have never visited Williamstown. (Actually, an unfair characterization of both, imo) - Nonetheless, a really impressive school, excellent academics and a quirky sense of humor - much like W&M. </p>
<p>On the other hand, it would be even more fun to talk about “most overrated” schools, (more than one “Top 10” school dropped into the “will not apply, nor will I attend if accepted” category after visiting) but I don’t think that’s an appropriate topic here … :)</p>
<p>my S also applied to Vassar, Wesleyan, Brown, Dartmouth, Oberlin, U of Rochester, UVM, CT College, Middlebury</p>
<p>Applied and waiting:
Brown
Pomona
UVa (instate)
Colorado College</p>
<p>Accepted:
Tulane
Rhodes
Eckerd
Emory & Henry</p>