Washington and Lee University Academic Experience

Past Performance

• 94% of our freshmen returned for sophomore year.
• 84% of our most recent graduates graduated in four years.
• How long does it usually take to graduate from freshman year?
  • On average, 85% of our freshman graduate in four years.
  • On average, 3% of our freshman graduate in five years.
• The average GPA of freshmen after completion of the first year is 2.8 on a 4.0 scale.

What Do We Like To Study?

Most Popular Majors

• history
• economics
• biology

Policies

Probation Policy

The minimum GPA required for all students to remain off probation during their entire college tenure is:

• Freshmen: 1.50
• Sophomore: 1.60
• Junior: 1.80
• Senior: 1.90

Graduation Policy:

• The minimun GPA that a student needs to maintain in order to graduate is 1.90.

Academic Calendar

Academic Calendar System:

• Other: Fall and winter sessions of 12 weeks each, followed by a spring session of six weeks

New student orientation:

• Orientation for new students is held in early September.

• 24% continue immediately.

• Law School: 7%
• Medical School: 4%
• Dental School: 1%
• Graduate Business Programs: 1%
• Graduate Arts and Sciences Programs: 10%
• Theological School/Seminary: 1%
• Other: 2%

• U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Texas, Vanderbilt University, University of
• Virginia, Wake Forest U.

• Andersen Consulting, Arthur Andersen, CS First Boston, Hecht's, Deloitte & Touche.

• Lewis F. Powell, Jr., justice, U.S. Supreme Court; Roger Mudd, TV journalist; Tom Wolfe, author; Dr. Joseph Goldstein, 1985 Nobel Prize-winner in medicine; John Warner, U.S. senator. Cy Twombly, artist.