Which T30 colleges are your kids happy at ?
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Anonymous
Yale is no longer in the top 30. |
Anonymous
No, that dubious distinction goes to Johns Hopkins. Worst, most-unhappy student life. |
Anonymous
Well maybe you should google "Where fun goes to die" and you'll learn something. |
Anonymous
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Have all the fun and happy with easy majors.
However no pain, no gain. |
Anonymous
UVA is not “relatively easy to get into”. From NOVA you need a 4.53 gpa, a 34 ACT or 1520 SAT, be in the top 5 percent if your high school class, take the most rigorous course load your high school offers and have extraordinary ECs |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Hence I said 'relatively easy' as a T30 or T25 school. It's acceptance rate is like 20%? Half of my kid's friends got in, including my kid from a NOVA public. There lower ranked schools that are harder to get with and higher stats such as Tufts, BU, BC, Northeastern, maybe Georgia Tech |
Anonymous
LOL ok |
Anonymous
You do not need a 4.53 GPA. That is not true. UVA does not have a required minimum GPA: https://admission.virginia.edu/node/156 We don't have a minimum GPA. We don't have a minimum SAT score. As strange as these answers sound, they're both true. A cumulative GPA only reveals so much; it says little about the difficulty of a student's course load, or whether a student's grades have improved over time, or the level of grade inflation (or deflation) in a student's school. If we established a firm minimum GPA, a point below which no applicant would have any chance of being admitted, we'd miss a fair number of students who might make UVA a better, stronger place.“ Minorities have an easy time getting into UVA. |
Anonymous
Yale and Harvard are not on the USNWR rankings at all. You cannot claim they are in the top 30, top 50, or anywhere. They are no longer ranked. |
Anonymous
That's law school friend. Harvard/Yale tied for #3 https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges |
Anonymous
Wake has always been in the T30 |
Anonymous
since being reclassified as a National University in the mid-90s while I was a student there, yes As I noted before, it was ranked #1 in the South Region when I applied there BUT was profiled in a book on the top 50 schools in the country, as well It has increased its student body size since I was there and it always felt more like a liberal arts school than a research university to me. My other choices were mostly liberal arts schools (Bucknell and F&M were 2 of them), so that was what I was aiming for. You couldn't declare a major until you were a junior and there was a strong core curriculum - most didn't just jump right into a major like at some of the larger institutions. It is a strong school with great networking in many majors. I know my fellow alum's senior daughter already has a job lined up with a top consulting firm after doing a summer internship. And it apparently still retains the nickname "Work Forest" although it is more a work hard/play hard place. The campus is lovely and I had a wonderful 4 years. I don't think it is worth $80k/year, though. |
Anonymous
to a large extent Duke has become a victim of its own success. When I attended in the late 80s the basketball success was in early stage and student body imo was a pretty laid back group of really smart and nice kids, and few were overtly spoiled or obnoxious. My DC attends now, and let’s just say the profile has changed - although they are still really smart. Will leave it at that |
Anonymous
Maybe you should both google it - this was a well worn topic in the nineties and a compromise was reached. |