Williams College

Williams College is one of the country's oldest colleges, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, at the foot of Mount Greylock in the Berkshires. The school was founded as a men's college; women were admitted for the first time in 1971. Williams College has three academic divisions: arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and mathematics, as well as graduate programs in art history and economics. Williams' class sizes are small, with a student-teacher ratio of 7-to-1. There are also Oxford-style tutorials at the school, which rely heavily on student participation. Its alumni society is the world's oldest; it hosted the first intercollegiate baseball game, and its class of 1887 was the first in the United States to wear caps and gowns at graduation. Each graduation, the school has a tradition of dropping a watch from the top of the college chapel.

Williams is a highly selective school, with only 8% of the Class of 2025 accepted. Since 2004, it has ranked first in U.S. News & World Report's rankings of National Liberal Arts Colleges, and it has also held high-ranking positions in other institutional rankings. The average redesigned SAT for freshmen admitted in fall 2019 is 733 in evidence-based reading and writing and 749 in math. The average ACT Composite score for super scorers was 33.

Website: https://www.williams.edu