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Williams College

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityA Faculty AccessibilityA
Useful SchoolworkA- Excess CompetitionB
Academic SuccessA+ Creativity/ InnovationB+
Individual ValueB+ University Resource UseA
Campus Aesthetics/ BeautyA FriendlinessA
Campus MaintenanceA Social LifeB
Surrounding CityB Extra CurricularsA+
SafetyA+
Describes the student body as:
Friendly, Arrogant, Approachable

Describes the faculty as:
Friendly, Helpful

Male
SAT1480
Quite Bright
Lowest Rating
Excess Competition
B
Highest Rating
Academic Success
A+
He cares more about Excess Competition than the average student.
Date: Mar 27 2009
Major: Philosophy (This Major's Salary over time)
Williams is a very competitive environment. If you like challenges, whether in academics, art, or athletics, the bonds you will forge will be most satisfying. Being a close-knit community, one needs to make an effort to find your place within these remarkable grounds. For the most part, I rarely meet people who are unhappy here. For those that are, I am certain they find their way to give unkind remarks, and suffer their dissillusionment in privacy of their rooms.

Williams is what you make of it. It either will be a great and rewarding experience, or an unpleasant reminder of having made a poor choice. Being amidst a very rural and isolated part of the state, can be daunting for loners who live within busy urban communities where anonymity can suffer their discontent. This community is for motivated individuals who are willing to challenge themselves to become better students and participative members of our greater community.

For the most part my professors are bright, in some cases, witty, and challenging. Then there are some whom we regret, but fortunately there are few and students generally avoid them.

Then there are occasions where I find the political correctness of the institution rather suffocating. Here students rarely speak their mind, as rumors can spread rapidly and alter your congenial social life. We find that privately, we speak our minds, but publicly, keep our voices to ourselves. I do not believe this is only characteristic of the Williams culture, but that there is in general an underlying subculture which prevails throughout our entire academic communities on numerous issues that prevent debate and that "good conversation".

In closing, Williams is a special place, "the purple bubble", a misty world unto itself. It draws those who seek qualities that the great liberal arts institutions strive for.

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