Dear ! I am studying toward Williams College. I want to enter medical school after graduation. Which medical schools do most Williams Pre-Med graduates enter? I wonder if many applicants get into top medical schools. Sincerely

Please dont be offended by my comments but you have the classical beautiful features of a print model. Have you ever thought about doing print modeling??

Thank you for such an in-depth and personal account of your amazing college. I have applied to Williams and this video really helped me get a better idea of the place!

Hi Gwyn, My daughter is still in HS but is very interested in art history, particularly museum curating. Williams has an exceptional MA program in art history although their BA art history is wonderful as well. It would be cool if she could get a BA and MA at Williams, but I wonder if spending 6 years at Williams would be too much considering the rural location. Do you think Williams presents enough opportunities to warrant staying there for more than 4 years? We’re from Georgia and I wouldn’t want my daughter to feel lonely and bored. Also, is the financial aid at Williams generous? I really appreciated your thoughts and good luck on your studies. Thanks

Hi, great video! What kind of jobs do Willam students usually do on and off campus? Thank you!

When I was deciding where to go to college, I boiled it down to Pomona in the West and Amherst in the East. I knew I wanted a small liberal arts college, wherever I went, so the Ivies and Stanford were out. Because my high school was a private prep school, the preppie issue didn't matter to me much (although I did learn that in some respects, even an exclusive private prep school in Seattle was not exactly the same sort of place as Exeter, Choate, Greenfield, Andover, etc.) I did not apply to Williams, because Williamsburg was fairly well "out of the way," and the five college cooperatives in which Amherst and Pomona operated seemed more likely to provide the sort of wide selection of academic and other opportunities I was looking for. In the end, I picked Amherst, and am grateful I did. It was a great school for me, and a forgiving one, since I spent the first two years learning more about subjects beyond the classroom, so to speak. It is said that sometimes men have to work harder at maturing, and that was certainly true for me. But when I was finally ready to be a real academic student, Amherst had all I wanted, including professors who knew me and to whom I mattered. Classes at Smith, Holyoke and Hampshire were also great. This is when the small liberal arts environment really paid off for me. I still remember when I walked on to the Amherst campus for the first time. It was almost a carbon copy of my high school, on a somewhat larger scale, so I was instantly comfortable with my surroundings. And it turned out that I could get along fine with the east coast preppies, although I must say that my two best friends at Amherst ended up being a public school legacy kid from Portland and the valedictorian of his high school class of 9 people from the San Juan Islands. Great dudes, both. Was the best man for one of them (my roommate all four years), and keep in touch with both to this day. I went to law school sort of by default after Amherst (choice was between philosophy grad school and law school), and thanks in large part to Amherst I had several choices among good schools. I chose one, and it all worked out. Amherst was great for me in many ways. Had I been a female, however, back then I might not have made the same choice. Since then, the frats are gone, and several other "progressive," and ultimately good, changes have come to the school. The effective male/female ratio in that valley is still similar, though. Put together, Amherst, Smith and Holyoke have a female/male ratio that is closer to 5/1 than 1/1, and I don't know how much that still affects the living experience at the school for women. My sister came to Amherst a few years later, and it was harder for her than for me; one of the reasons could have been related to this, although she's never really said. It was fairly weird back in my day, socially, at least for awhile. In any event, I can say that law school and real life straightened me right out on that score after I left Amherst. :)

Cole!!

I went to Hampshire, which is about a 90-minute drive away from Williams (in New England there's a joke that EVERYTHING is 90 minutes from EVERYTHING else 🤣), and although Hampshire is right in the middle of the Amherst/Northampton area (which is MUCH LESS isolated a location than Williamstown is), because it is also a MUCH smaller campus (back when I attended Hampshire it was 1,400 students) than Williams is (2,100 students), it still feels a bit isolated because it's out in South Amherst, and away from the Amherst Town Center. However it's also very close to the other Five-College campuses: Amherst/Smith & Mt. Holyoke Colleges, & UMass/Amherst. I mean, Western Massachusetts is a GREAT place to go to college, generally speaking. I also studied extensively at Williams sister college, which is Amherst. I gave Williams a pretty good lingering look, and I thought it was excellent academically, definitely a little more quirky & eccentric socially and more artsy than Amherst was, but still didn't have the TOTAL academic freedom that I had at Hampshire. HOWEVER, I ❤️ Williams campus; the Berkshires are BEAUTIFUL. I did get to also participate in the Williamstown Theater 🎭 Festival during the Summer after I graduated from Hampshire, so that was ACTUALLY a really great experience. The Berkshires are pretty artsy and full of Music, Visual Art, Dance, Theater & Film, which is another one of the MAJOR reasons I chose Western Massachusetts to go to college in the first place.

this looks so fun aww! cute vlog!

Smooothh haha 😍

I just got accepted to Williams! Really learned a lot about the Winter Study from this video, thank you! I hope to join you next year :)

I miss you so much 🤍

GOAT🙌🏾

Hi Does Williams provide generous aid?

I was rejected at Bowdoin, waitlisted at Reed, accepted to Pitzer and Grinnell College. I went to Pitzer for a year but transferred to Grinnell as I received a full scholarship. They have great financial aid.

Thank you!

Hi! I have a question for u;do william clg have nursing program?btw ur vdos are amazing:)

Hi Does Williams offer good financial aid paclage?

Hi Do they offer good financial aid?

If girls are this beautiful at Williams. I'm going to Williams. Btw thanks for the insights.

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Your language is very important thankyou

16:07 I know this is 2 years late but I really resonate with this. I recently committed to play golf at Williams (I’m going into senior year of HS this fall) and I was stuck between there and Middlebury. I’ve always been involved in many sports and being from a big Midwestern public high school I’ve always felt in the middle of being extroverted with my teammates but also introverted and academically serious.

My phone definitely hears what I’m saying, because I just committed to play golf at Williams ‘27 yesterday

My sister applied to Williams would you recommend it she got into 32/38 colleges she applied to she got waitlisted at USC, Duke, Tufts, FSU, and GWU and rejected by Harvard but she‘s choosing between Williams, Dayton, CWRU, BU, UTampa, UMD, Tulane, VT, IU, Pratt Institute, Clemson, UCB, PSU, NYU, Seattle U, university of Richmond, UDel, UW Madison, RIT, Pepperdine, Georgetown, Trinity U, CCU, UGA, UMiami, Miami U, Ohio State, Pitt, Stony Brook, UMich, UIUC, and LSU

hey! what are you pursuing? and for what is williams college famous for?

I would like to apply for scholarship

Richmond isn’t a big school or in the city lol

If you didn’t like Preppy and love music, thank goodness you chose NOT to go to Richmond.

AHHHHH I was accepted last Friday and I AM SO EXCITED!!!!! Your vlogs are making me even more pumped up about Williams that my heart is gonna burst. The idea of me attending Williams makes me feel so safe and secure--the community is peerless in quality and friendship. Thank you for showcasing its beauty!!!

This is awesome! My brother is in William’s class of 2022

Hang on a sec…this is where the one and only late great Stephen Sondheim went, right?

Are there any Indian students in your class?

Your videos make me wish I applied to more liberal arts colleges😭I didn't apply to Williams but the liberal arts experience seems very special and I didn't seriously consider it for a while just because of finances. I'm still waiting to hear back from the three LACs I applied to (Bates, Vassar, and Lewis and Clark) but hopefully if all goes well I'll be at one of them next year!

10:39 is when she gets into the Williams vs Amherst part.

Everything's so beautiful! The campus, the dorms, the groups and the best of them all, your narration with actual clips of the activities!

U look cute and beautiful

Ayo wtf Hikaru was my tour guide when I went to Williams!! Ay hikaru if u see this thank u ur tour was great and I’m sorry that I had a pushy dad with a Boston accent! Hope to see u at Williams next year (fingers crossed)

Hi! ! Gwyn!! Long time no see. Thank you so much for your videos!! It's really helpful for me. I just get accepted by Williams college ED with financial aid !!! Hopefully I can meet you the next year on campus.🤗😊😊🤣🤣

Wow classic

Do you have Instagram?

Thank you for your insight! I applied a few days ago:)

Hi! I've been watching a lot of yours videos and it's been an absolutely fun experience. I do have question tho, you mentioned that for international students the "getting to campus" part can be a burden. As an international that obviously caught my attention, could you tell me if international students have any help getting to campus from the airport? Like you mentioned, a bus would take international students?

How exciting!!! My son(#5) chose Williams ( #1 U.S. Liberal Arts College)... he had a billion choices as many of the other Williams students who turned down HUGE well-known IVIES...we were blessed in the respect that he resided in Chicago until age 12 ...then he matriculated to a private school in D.C.. Hope you are enjoying your New England experience! I just returned home( Chicago) on last night and plan to return in the spring ( I enjoy engaging in intellectual debates and taking advantage of studying at one of the best libraries in the world). Congrats again!!!! Fun Facts: First college to have caps and gowns! First college to install indoor bathrooms!!

Hi Gwyn!!

Tip for future vids, try lowering the background music and maybe check out some chill lofi beats? That music lowkey sounded like college tour video music.

Hi Gwyn -- I really enjoyed this video -- congratulations on all of the well deserved achievements. I'm quite familiar with Williams and Amherst and curious to know what pushed Williams over the top?

I'm a prospective student. Williams is my top choice. The academics/tutorials are really appealing to me, as is the campus location -- hiking is super important to me, so living in the Berkshires and participating in WOC would be a dream come true. I have read that there is a big jock/drinking culture. I don't like sports and am not interested in the party scene *at all*. Would a nerdy outdoorsy kid fit in at Williams? Is the jock/drinking culture stereotype true?

Love that netflix show lol. Love your channel! I'm applying to williams through questbridge!!

0:29 o.o im currently watching this at 2am as part of my college admissions stress spiral and I feel called out