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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Undecided  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright Be prepared, this is a very white-washed New England kind of school (duh). If boring, pasty Caucasian New England prep school types (who only marry each other and live in dead-end New England towns and small cities) are the kind of people you want to surround yourself with, this is the place to be. You get a very limited variety of people to interact with and, thus, your cultural appreciation for things different from yourself is also stunted severely. Most of the minorities who come here fall into two categories: the kind who become (or already were) hardcore minority-centric (and blatantly refuse to talk to the White crowd) or the kind who consciously white-wash themselves and are ashamed of their minority status and went to Williams so they could feel as White as possible. Unfortunately, when you look at the student body here, you realize that this school only pays lip service to diversity and, thus, provides all of its students with a handicapped education. Don't go here expecting to learn very much outside the classroom (or outside of hiking in the mountains). Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 05 2007 3rd Year Male -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=42003&uid=614'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   PreMed and Medical  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Amazingly unfriendly Financial Aid Dept. This school seems to have a bunch of unintegrated, private departmental fiefdoms. College administration needs to do some reining-in here. High student transfer-out rate. Collaboration/Competitive: B+, Faculty Accessibility: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 06 2007 2nd Year Male -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=41497&uid=614'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Cultures/Civilization  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Follow the herd, they have collective knowledge about majors, degrees, graduate schools and employment paths. You will have to somehow put that all together yourself - you may get the occasional sentence or two of good advice, but this is not enough. You will have to intuit what you will need and how to go about getting it starting from before you arrive. This is especially true of summer and post- graduation employment, but the planning should start from before day one. I got a great deal of random advice ("Take Art History!" "Take Drawing!" "Take English 101 and don't do AP because Williams is better!" "Take Economics! (not bad, but when unaccompanied by "Take advanced calculus in high school!" results in early termination at the -200 level or the dreaded non-quantitative economist label) which didn't help me transition into a career or meaningful employment. If it weren't for substantial help from other people I would have starved to death a decade ago. Major in political science or economics or better yet, political economy instead, and pay lip service to languages, but avoid them like the plague, and you'll be better positioned for employment to actually use the languages you never studied. Geography is very important in finding post-college work or pursuing higher education. I'd suggest that if you're not on the coast, you're toast, meaning that for the most part, if you're not in a few New England or mid-Atlantic states, or on the West Coast, you're just SOL. You can quote me on that. No one in my metrosprawlopia has ever heard of Williams. Most of the local alums where I live have really struggled with their careers, in spite of (or more likely because of) the fact that local levels of intelligence and education tend to be pretty laughable. Thanks to Williams, I did well against a recently published editorial in the WSJ listing what liberal arts degrees should require. It's a shame that businesses and graduate schools are not looking for these skills (in fact, it's even arguable whether they want to hire or recruit Americans at all). What Williams did provide was a fair assessment environment for standardized tests (this could be valuable for you, if you can go to the places that these matter). Also, although I dealt with some unfair crap, it was NOTHING as bad as the Asia-biased -plagiarism -lying-cheating -rule-flauting- faculty-admin -misbehavior -anti-American -shitstorm I later encountered in grad school. Starting Job: Freelance translator, Preparedness: B, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Sep 06 2007 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=41106&uid=614'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Political Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright After visiting other schools, I cannot think of a better place to spend for years. Outstanding, committed faculty; small, challenging classes; an enormous endowment spend on students; brand new facilities; a scenic mountain valley; and warm, interesting, and brilliant students. The Williams experience is perhaps best captured by Henry David Thoreau's most famous quote about Williams: “It would be no small advantage if every college were thus located at the base of a mountain, as good at least as one well-endowed professorship ... Some will remember, no doubt, not only that they went to the college, but that they went to the mountain.” Education Quality: A+, Innovation: A- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 25 2007 4th Year Male -- Class 2004    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=39965&uid=614'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7 ... 8    Next

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