I guess peers in terms of test scores etc. but not overall peers due to UVA's size. |
Millionaires? No not really when we have billionaires who own massive amounts of wealth and land. |
You are right...because people care who is top 1% and who is literally #1. However, nobody cares about 15%. I don't even know by "what numbers". Here are several articles talking about schools with student bodies from the top 1%. https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2023/08/22/new-study-investigates-why-elite-colleges-favor-rich-kids/ https://edsource.org/updates/children-from-richest-families-more-likely-to-attend-ivy-league-schools-study-finds |
And? |
what? |
Worse they are not even in the top half. |
Agree UVa size is a negative. William&Mary is closer to an ivy/elite private in terms of feel (seminar classes, overall size). UVA is not a good ivy backup because the vibe is all wrong. |
W&M is small but not as small as most ivies. UVA is like Cornell. |
And I never said it was a negative. Some people would hate small environments. See: every single large university in the USA and the increasing popularity of schools like Alabama. |
Thank you for being a voice of reason. There are a lot of delusional boosters of VT on dcum who think it is some top school. It is a midling school with a significantly lower SAT range than W&Mary and UVA, and at least the old rankings correctly sorted the three. VT admits many below average students from privates, and almost no one in the top 20% choose it in the end or ED when that was a thing. UVA admits from the top25% and WM from the top 30%, and there are people in the top 10% who occasionally choose to ED at one. |
No. Yale is the same size as WM(6900 undergrads), Princeton and Dartmouth are smaller. All the others are bigger than WM. WM has all the feel of an ivy yet a less selective admission with a mildly lower range of SAT scores. It is used by many students as an ivy backup for these reasons. |
It’s just Emory mom being Emory mom, she has an irrational hatred of Wake Forest ,or maybe just of college kids having fun. |
Makes sense. No logical person would think WF does not belong with those colleges. |
W&M is just under 7100 undergrads now but yeah it's right in the middle |
Of course a college class size of 25-40 makes for a different experience than a class size of 100 students. In a class of <40, there will be many more opportunities for class discussion with the prof and the opportunity to build a relationship with the prof. No one is saying that all 100+ classes are bad, but nature of the interactions are fundamentally different in a smaller class than they are in a lecture hall. If you're the sort of student who enjoys conversing with professors and asking questions, you will prefer the former. If a student's only ambition in college is to get good grades, then this smaller class setting is probably less important to them. |