How Are You Spending Your Summer Vacation

Admit It!  You’re counting down the days until summer break.  It’s hard not to.  The weather is getting nicer, the days are getting longer, it’s nearly June.  Here at W&M it’s already technically summer break.  The Class of 2012 graduated on Sunday (yeah you’re right, college calendars rule).  While most of the campus slows down during the summer, our office heats up (figuratively and literally – have you been to Williamsburg in the summer?  It’s definitely hot).  Summer is absolutely a time that many prospective students choose to visit colleges.  While the campus may not quite feel like itself, it’s still a great opportunity to get a feel for an institution and to at least begin exploring whether or not a school will be on your short list for applications come fall.

Beginning May 29 and continuing through August 17, we offer information sessions and tours at 10:00am and 2:30pm (with a few notable exceptions which can be found on our visit calendar).  We also offer 10:00am tours on select Saturdays.  During the summer we also offer on-campus interviews to rising high school seniors.  These are offered on weekdays beginning June 25 and ending August 17.  Additionally while we cannot offer you the opportunity to sit in on a class, we do encourage you to contact any department in which you’re interested and see if someone is on campus during your visit that might be able to meet with you.  If you cannot make it to campus, we offer tours and interviews and a host of other visit opportunities during the fall as well.  Or if you do make it to campus this summer but want to see what W&M is like when classes are in session, we welcome you back for a second visit any time.

So somewhere between governor’s school, your part-time job, a road trip with friends, the family vacation, days at the pool/beach, summer reading assignments, concerts, an internship and whatever else you have planned, squeeze in a trip to W&M and make us part of how you spent your summer vacation.

Wendy Livingston ’03, M.Ed. ‘09
Senior Assistant Dean of Admission