<p>I was wondering in which areas each college stacks up against the other. I would assume Chapel Hill wins in the English majors, and William and Mary in the sciences- am I correct in thinking that? But what about areas like language, economics, math, etc.</p>
<p>Chapel Hill is quite good in chem, and good in biology. It is more of a research university, compared to W&M which is probably the most LAC-like out of all the top state schools. It really depends more on what you want from the school than anything. </p>
<p>As far as physics goes, neither of them are that great.</p>
<p>William and Mary is very strong in humanities and has an excellent placement rate in med schools so they are getting great outcomes, has smaller classrooms, less Teaching Assts, greater intimacy with full professors more often. Faculty is warm and accessible. William and Mary does have a LAC meets small university feel and University of Chapel Hill is better compared with University of Virginia. The atmosphere at Chapel Hill is considered to be more upbeat and lively no matter who you are talking with.</p>
<p>This is true - Chapel Hill is a much more "typical" college town than Williamsburg, and there are also obviously more universities nearby. However, be warned if you aren't from NC - lots of people bring their friends there, and if you aren't outgoing it'll probably be hard to get to know people if you don't go with your HS friends.</p>
<p>Like ohnoes said, WM places a strong emphasis on their liberal arts education. WM is very strong in the humanities, and there is no engineering department here.</p>
<p>I will say that I know freshman doing research here though, so if that's what you want, you can do it here. I'm told the placement of students who want to go to med school from WM who get into their first choice is around 80%.</p>
<p>The College is months away from finishing the new part of Small Hall, which will house an ultra high field (17.6 Tesla), solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, joining the current list of institutions that have this technology: Yale, Stanford, Pacific Northwest Laboratory and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.</p>
<p>In my first year at WM, I have had a TA who is in charge of the chem lab, and the math lab (aka you do problem sets). They are there for help, but have never had the job of teaching anything.</p>
<p>thanks for all the info guys!</p>