Chapter 394: Williams Academy

Williams College may not be well-known in China, but it is a prestigious school in the minds of Americans, even more popular than Harvard University, and is the most famous aristocratic college in the United States! The college has a long history, not only creating a precedent for intercollegiate athletic competition, but also being the first school in the United States to use graduation ceremonies and bachelor's graduation clothing.

Henry really didn't know how much it would cost to buy a school in the United States.

Williams College, as the first of the liberal arts colleges, must be very expensive. However, the college covers an area of 450 acres and has an enrollment of 315 teachers and about 2,000 students. In terms of scale, it's really small and pitiful. Harvard University has more than 6,700 undergraduates, more than 14,000 master's and doctoral students, and the number of students is 10 times that of Williams College.

Currently, the tuition fee at Williams College is: $44,920/year.

Room and board: $11,850/year.

The total is only $56,000.

Enrolling about 500 students a year is only $28 million a year.

The $28 million has not been eliminated from the college's operating costs, including faculty salaries, school repairs, equipment maintenance, and so on. In addition, scholarships and bursaries for students are also a large amount of money, and Williams School will provide these "financial assistance" to 45% of students as much as possible. Thinking about it this way, it is not very profitable to run a school in the United States! Perhaps, others do not make money by collecting tuition fees, but by donating funds!

Prestigious American universities provide scholarships and grants as much as possible, and many students will be grateful after graduation and return to their alma mater from time to time. Harvard University's endowment fund is as high as more than 30 billion dollars, do you say it has money?

Schools that are education-oriented, not aimed at making students' money......, will be richer!

……

Henry then sent a takeover request to Williams College, offering to buy it for $1 billion.

The shareholders of a private school are called the school board and make decisions on the school's major issues. If someone else buys Williams College, they can't buy it even if they have money. Most of Williams College trustees are passionate about education, and $1 billion may not be tempting.

Henry, however, was different. Cisco has established hundreds of primary and secondary schools, and Henry's reputation is well-known in the education world. Moreover, Henry was also a famous novelist, a scientist, and a world-recognized supergenius who invented graphene, a new material! He wanted to buy Williams College and set up a university, which naturally won the support of the school's trustees. And the reason why Williams College was chosen, everyone is also very clear about it, is because the name of the school is the same as his surname.

Soon, Williams College's school board replied, promising to be acquired.

On February 7, the contract was signed.

On February 20, Williams College moved from Massachusetts to Williams, California.

Henry personally served as Williams Principal.

Williams College originally had more than 300 teachers, and Henry recruited more than 400 professors from Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford and other world-famous universities to expand the school's faculty and increase the number of graduate schools. Originally, Williams College had only undergraduates. However, the new Williams College is still based on the original education method and is still an aristocratic school, but the difficulty of enrollment has increased, ranking the highest in the world!

Only 1,000 undergraduate and 500 graduate students are enrolled each year.

Henry hopes that the students who go out of Williams College are the best in the world!

As for the city government of Williams, with the help of the Henry Think Tank team, it has gradually improved and is on the right track. At this time, Williams College also began the enrollment process, but the application conditions are: the total score of the SAT test of the American college entrance examination is not less than 2100 points (out of 2400 points), or the ACT test score is not less than 27 points (out of 36 points).

These are only the prerequisites for registration, and whether you are admitted or not will need to be interviewed to decide.

As soon as the news of Williams College's enrollment spread, students from all over the world signed up.

Among them, there are quite a few students with perfect SAT scores and ACT test scores. However, top universities in the U.S. usually refuse to admit such students with perfect scores, believing them to be nerds.

……

The weather in February and March in California will not feel cold in a single suit. Williams College's new campus is magnificent, classical, sci-fi and covers six times the size of the original, with 2,700 acres. Henry took off his mask and pretended to be a Williams College student wandering around, but no one recognized him because his appearance had changed so much.

Henry walked to the school gate, and at this moment, there were a lot of people here, densely packed, and the enrollment work was underway. Henry sat on a large rock by the pond, enjoying the warm spring breeze while watching the students come to sign up. For a while, Henry couldn't help but remember the scene of going to college in his previous life, although it was a long time ago, but it was still vivid and deeply touched!

At this moment, a young girl walked up to Henry, her eyes staring straight at Henry, "Hello, can I sit here?" she asked.

"Absolutely. Henry smiled faintly and couldn't help but look at her. The first is a very good figure, tall and slim. Secondly, she is very beautiful and is an extremely rare beauty. Her skin was white and red, and her long blonde hair was draped over her shoulders. And what surprised Henry was that her eyes were originally just blue, but for a moment, her eyes turned purple, although it was only a flash, but Henry would never think that he was wrong, because at that moment, his brain was extremely active!

"Thank you!" the somewhat mysterious girl whispered, and sat down across from Henry.

"You're here for an admissions interview?"

"Yes. ”

"Not that old!?"

"I just turned 16!"

"You came to Williams College at the age of 16, so you are a genius!" Henry said with a slight surprise.

The girl did not answer, but looked at Henry and said to herself, "I know who you are!"

Henry couldn't help but be surprised, "Really, tell me who I am?!"

"The owner of Williams Academy!" replied the girl.

"How did you guess that, you know, my appearance has changed a lot!" asked Henry curiously.

"Secret. ”

"Secret??well, since it's a secret, then I won't ask. But you can always tell me what your name is, right?"

"Deiffel. ”

Henry smiled, "Hello, Miss Deffer, can you keep it a secret for me? You know, I don't want anyone to know who I am......"

Defer nodded and replied briefly, "Good!"

With that, Defer got up and walked away again.

As soon as Deffel walked away, a skinny boy of about eighteen years old walked up to Henry, "Hey, stay away from Deffle!"

"Your girlfriend?" said Henry lightly, "If so, I will!"

"Oh God, who would dare to ask her to be his girlfriend?!

"What do you mean?" asked Henry, curious.

"I'll tell you," said the boy, looking cautiously around, "that Delphi is an orphan, withdrawn by nature, and wicked, and that all who offend her are mad, even her headmaster!

"Oh, I see! But I have bad news for you......"

"What's the bad news?"

"She's looking at you right now!"

(To be continued.) )