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Noor Naseer • October 9, 2024. Men’s soccer (8-2-1, 5-20-0 NESCAC) dominated over the weekend, defeating the Bates Bobcats (6-4-1, 2-3-1 NESCAC) 2-0 on Saturday and the SUNY Cortland Red Dragons (7-3-3) 1-0 on Sunday. The weekend’s victories brought the team to four consecutive wins, solidifying its strength after an uneven start to the ...
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Aliya Huprikar • October 2, 2024. California will ban private universities and colleges from considering the legacy and donor status of applicants during the admissions process starting Sept. 1, 2025. Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed the bill into law on Monday, said the ban is intended to promote equal educational opportunity in California.
College admits 7.5 percent of record-high 15,411 applicants to …
Mar 31, 2024 · Combined with its early decision cycle, the College received 15,411 applicants for the Class of 2028. The Record calculated the total acceptance rate for the 2023-2024 admission cycle as 7.5 percent — down 2.3 percentage pointssince last year — marking the lowest rate on record. The acceptance rate for the regular decision round was 6.4 ...
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Sep 25, 2024 · One in Two Thousand: Vanya Funez ’26. Emily Zas • September 18, 2024. Each week, the Record (using a script in R) randomly selects a student at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature, excluding current Record board members. This week, Vanya Funez ’26 discussed her time at Williams-Mystic, blacksmithing, and healthy sleeping habits.
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Max Billick • September 25, 2024. The Honor and Discipline Committee, which hears allegations of academic misconduct at the College, used an incorrect voting procedure in its hearings for more than a year, a Record investigation found. Rather than using a three-quarters majority vote as the threshold to find a student responsible for ...
Town - The Williams Record
At tonight’s Town Meeting, to be held at Mount Greylock Regional School at 7 p.m., Williamstown voters will decide on 42 warrant articles, including a provision to allow the construction of cottage court developments that could densify the Town’s housing stock, changes to tax law aimed at lowering the tax burden for low-income residents and seniors, and the first major proposed amendments ...
BREAKING: Williams announces plan to reconvene on campus for …
Jun 29, 2020 · The College has announced that it will reopen the campus to students for the fall semester, though with stringent measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and with a 15 percent lower cost of attendance.
Opinions - The Williams Record
Surprise room checks are inconvenient and dangerous. Harry Albert • October 2, 2024. In an op-ed Harry Albert ’25 argues that, contrary to their purpose, surprise room checks cultivate dangerous practices among students and fail to address the root problem of fire-sources in dorm rooms. Welcome back to campus!
Winter Study COVID campus updates - The Williams Record
Jan 31, 2022 · Staff at the testing center in Greylock Hall. (Sam Riley/The Williams Record) This is an evolving story. Amid a return from winter break and the surging Omicron variant, the College has significantly altered its COVID-19 policies, including shortening isolation periods to match new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tightening its surveillance testing regimen ...
College admits 255 students to Class of 2026 through early decision
Gabe Miller December 20, 2021. The College accepted 255 students — 31.3 percent of applicants — to the Class of 2026 through this year’s early decision admissions process on Dec. 10. There were 814 total early applicants, of whom around 180 were deferred to the spring’s regular decision pool, with the remaining 400 or so denied ...