 Hi, my name is Skip Weitzel, I'm the proud parent of the UVM senior writer Weitzel, who's a history major at minoring in resort management, and this is why I think your son or daughter should consider the University of Vermont. What makes UVM so special to me is I like to say the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. There's so many great things about UVM, but when you put it all together, it's just a wonderful environment. There's so much to do outside of school. The quality of life up there is amazing. There's a place on campus where if you look west, you look at Lake Champlain, if you turn around and look east, you're looking over at Stowe and the Green Mountains, and you're right in the middle of UVM, right in the middle of Burlington. The faculty is phenomenal. Writers had a great experience with this faculty. To me, it's top-down. It starts at the very top with the new president, Aaron Mella, super guy, and what's been in place with the immediate past president, Tom Sullivan, he did a tremendous job. I had never seen a university in better place, in better shape. Academically, the caliber of students that they're admitting, the caliber of students that are graduating and the jobs that they're being placed in, I would congratulate any parent whose son or daughter has been admitted to UVM because I know it's very competitive these days, and that they should be proud of that, and that they should know that their son or daughter will get a high-quality educational experience at the University of Vermont.