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New wrinkle - Tommy had to let W&M know already but he just today got accepted to Vanderbilt. I told him if he really would prefer to go to Vanderbilt, it is not too late and we would do what's necessary to tell W&M no and Vanderbilt yes.
Big caveats, W&M will cost us about $20k less per year and I told him to factor that into his decision and W&M provides on campus housing to transfer students. Still, he's looking over the course offerings again. He says he's still favoring W&M but I told him he could take a few days. He doesn't have to turn Vanderbilt down right away.
Ymo - feel free to weigh in on the perks of going to Vandy! ;)
Nashville is a great town but with 16 years between now and graduation my experiences are likely outdated.
With that said, the campus is nearly in the middle of downtown, so that helps set the atmosphere. While in the SEC, athletics didn’t play a big role but that may have been because I was in grad school. Weather is similar to Durham. I had a fun two years...
W&M is very close to "downtown" Williamsburg. ;) Right now though, with the whole pandemic thing, being in a downtown area isn't all that appealing, at least not to me. It's going to come down to what is more important to him, the archaeology opportunities (W&M has the upper hand) or the Mayan language courses (Vandy has the upper hand).
I think he's going to stick with W&M, but it's nice to be wanted. I told him he can probably arrange to study a Mayan language as an independent study or, fingers crossed, do a study abroad program next summer. I'm really putting my thumb on the W&M scale, but getting into Vandy is a nice ego boost since he didn't get into the dream school (Cornell). Vandy has a lower acceptance rate than Cornell. I suspect the Massachusetts/Vermont thing helped at Vandy and might have been a drawback at Cornell.
I wasn't paying attention - that last post was number 27,000! (This is the 27,000th reply.)
Off to the dump with a truckload of junk. A beautiful morning for a jaunt.
Low 90s humidity here right now.
Oooo cardinal sin in my family...walking on the joke. I'm watching two siblings fussing at each other for stepping on a punchline. Haha, two goobers.
I had a Zoom cocktail hour with some friends tonight and actually drank some wine! (I don't drink a lot of wine.)