What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: UVA will always be a top tier school not just for those in the state. Virginia Tech has built a reputation outside of Virginia as well.

William and Mary is the overpaid country club that nobody outside of town actually thinks is a status. I’d send my kid OOS before sending my teen here.

Sounds like someone must have been rejected and can’t move on. W&M is a highly respected university that attracts applicants from across the US and from
abroad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland has UMD and JHU.
[b]Virigina does not have a JHU. Don't let that hurt your feelings, it is what it is.[/b]

VA has UVA Medical, UVA Hospital and VA Tech for engineering and science, and W&M for a SLAC offering, which no other state has. And 3O+ other public institutions of higher learning. VA also has UVA Law now ranked 4th if all law schools.

For the zillionth time: W&M is not a SLAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: UVA will always be a top tier school not just for those in the state. Virginia Tech has built a reputation outside of Virginia as well.

William and Mary is the overpaid country club that nobody outside of town actually thinks is a status. I’d send my kid OOS before sending my teen here.

Are you confusing W&L with Willam and Mary? I don’t think many people associate W&M with a country club vibe…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland has UMD and JHU.
[b]Virigina does not have a JHU. Don't let that hurt your feelings, it is what it is.[/b]

VA has UVA Medical, UVA Hospital and VA Tech for engineering and science, and W&M for a SLAC offering, which no other state has. And 3O+ other public institutions of higher learning. VA also has UVA Law now ranked 4th if all law schools.

For the zillionth time: W&M is not a SLAC.

Sort of feels like one though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland has UMD and JHU.
[b]Virigina does not have a JHU. Don't let that hurt your feelings, it is what it is.[/b]

VA has UVA Medical, UVA Hospital and VA Tech for engineering and science, and W&M for a SLAC offering, which no other state has. And 3O+ other public institutions of higher learning. VA also has UVA Law now ranked 4th if all law schools.

For the zillionth time: W&M is not a SLAC.

Sort of feels like one though.

It honestly doesn't.

[Anonymous]

The LAC comments may represent the “feel” of the school, and perhaps historical majors, but we just toured last week (with a junior) and they said 60% of undergrads are STEM majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: UVA will always be a top tier school not just for those in the state. Virginia Tech has built a reputation outside of Virginia as well.

William and Mary is the overpaid country club that nobody outside of town actually thinks is a status. I’d send my kid OOS before sending my teen here.

Are you confusing W&L with Willam and Mary? I don’t think many people associate W&M with a country club vibe…

Probably. W&M is a nerd school (in the best possible way) and a great place for really smart kids to get to be around other really smart kids that are focused and driven. UVA is more country club than W&M, but W&L has them both beat on that vibe by a long shot.

A lot of people also don't go to college for status and could not give a shit about impressing people with where they spend four years of their life. Outside legal, high-end consulting, and finance, most people do just fine without a T20 degree or having to tell people where they went to college within five minute of meeting them. DC and DCUM just have a much larger pool of people who want others to be impressed by their name brand university than most - probably same for NYC and places where lawyers, consultants, and finance bros gather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The LAC comments may represent the “feel” of the school, and perhaps historical majors, but we just toured last week (with a junior) and they said 60% of undergrads are STEM majors.

Science and mathematics are Liberal Arts fields.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The LAC comments may represent the “feel” of the school, and perhaps historical majors, but we just toured last week (with a junior) and they said 60% of undergrads are STEM majors.

Science and mathematics are Liberal Arts fields.

And yet most LACs are majority humanities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The LAC comments may represent the “feel” of the school, and perhaps historical majors, but we just toured last week (with a junior) and they said 60% of undergrads are STEM majors.

Science and mathematics are Liberal Arts fields.

And yet most LACs are majority humanities

That is not true. Amherst degrees for instance are 38% science and math, which is a higher percentage than humanities or social sciences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The LAC comments may represent the “feel” of the school, and perhaps historical majors, but we just toured last week (with a junior) and they said 60% of undergrads are STEM majors.

Science and mathematics are Liberal Arts fields.

And yet most LACs are majority humanities

That is not true. Amherst degrees for instance are 38% science and math, which is a higher percentage than humanities or social sciences.

Soooo 38 vs 60?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The LAC comments may represent the “feel” of the school, and perhaps historical majors, but we just toured last week (with a junior) and they said 60% of undergrads are STEM majors.

Science and mathematics are Liberal Arts fields.

And yet most LACs are majority humanities

That is not true. Amherst degrees for instance are 38% science and math, which is a higher percentage than humanities or social sciences.

Amherst STEM percentage is higher than UVA STEM percentage even though Amherst does not have engineering.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The LAC comments may represent the “feel” of the school, and perhaps historical majors, but we just toured last week (with a junior) and they said 60% of undergrads are STEM majors.

Science and mathematics are Liberal Arts fields.

And yet most LACs are majority humanities

That is not true. Amherst degrees for instance are 38% science and math, which is a higher percentage than humanities or social sciences.

Soooo 38 vs 60?

Humanities includes fields like English, languages, arts, philosophy. It does not include social sciences like economics.

[Anonymous]

DP: They're now R1 and and have 7k undergrads and apparently a *massive* stem presence (they wouldn't be highlighting this if "liberal arts vibe" screamed "we have good stem departments here" to the general public which yeah people still like to claim that W&M is not the place to go if you're planning to study stem). I just don't see that being "LAC-like".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The LAC comments may represent the “feel” of the school, and perhaps historical majors, but we just toured last week (with a junior) and they said 60% of undergrads are STEM majors.

Science and mathematics are Liberal Arts fields.

And yet most LACs are majority humanities

That is not true. Amherst degrees for instance are 38% science and math, which is a higher percentage than humanities or social sciences.

Soooo 38 vs 60?

If you are trying to reduce it to STEM vs. not STEM, most universities do not have majority STEM degrees. Harvard is about 50% STEM. Most on DCUM seem to think Harvard students study nothing but French Lit and Gender Studies. Schools like MIT, Caltech, and Georgia Tech are majority STEM.