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Anonymous wrote:UVA's focus has always been and continues to be the social sciences and humanities. Tech is Virginia's STEM-focused school.
False. DD just graduated in aerospace engineering at UVA. Your statement is simplistic. Please go and learn more about the STEM courses offered at UVA. W&M started as no 1 (2 in the nation) the state offering a classical liberal education popular at the time. Later,
Thomas Jefferson started UVA for the benefit of the Commonwealth to train the Commonwealth’s leaders of tomorrow, to educate future world citizens and to to fulfill the needs of the Commonwealth (hence nursing and teaching programs). It was in this environment that the sciences were taught and always taught well. Tech came along much later as a POLY technical school (not a tech school - Poly ion it’s name) to train the farmers, vets, poultry engineers, architects, nutritionists, clothing design, small business development, etc. And all the other polytechnic skills. It’s engineering school is very good but if you have the stats and can afford it, Purdue and GT (OOS) will land you a better job in the field. VT engineering is good as applied engineering. The UVA engineers tends to becomes managers on projects and tend to be paid more than the VT engineers.
Oh stop it! You are going to make heads combust and be called a booster. On another note, don't ever bring up TJ with these people, you will promptly be called a racist and informed of all of the evil doings that he did. Not to mention the Commonwealth references, which is really code for "Southern" and you know...all Southern people are evil. The rest of your points are spot on though!
Thanks. and I'm not a booster. And I didn't mentioned TJ. BTW, I loved VT. I really wanted one of my children to go there but they picked another. One of my kids went to GMU, which was also terrific for that child and that major. The schools are all different and serve different purposes. And have very different student bodies. You must go and visit and also learn the scores for the engineering departments of both. The fall first-year student profile for VT engineering students for 2019 was a 4.14; the average SAT math score was a 707; the average SAT Reading was a 6.52. Total SAT was a 1351. That's for ENGINEERING only. The best comparison I could find for UVA's Engineering was 2016-2017 (scores would be higher today), which was 97 percent were in their top ten percent of their high school class and median combined SAT scores of a 1421. (My DD was no. 1 in her class and had a 36 ACT and also submitted SAT II subject matter test scores). So, clearly, the UVA engineers have higher GPAs and test scores by 100 points.
https://engineering.virginia.edu/future-undergrads/admissions#accordion93610.
As to the stats of all the students (not just engineering), UVA's incoming class last fall had a 75th percentile GPA of a 4.48, Median was a 4.34 and 25th percentile was a 4.20. 75th percentile SAT was a 1490. 75th percentile ACT was a 34.
https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp
VT's 75th percentile was a 4.20 GPA, a median of 4.00 and a 25th percentile of 3.75. The 75th percentile SAT was a 1360, Median was a 1270 and the 25th percentile was a 1180. Sat 75th percentile was a 31; median 28; 25th percentile was a 25.
https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp. Those are very different classes.
So one of the questions you might ask your child is what kind of colleagues do they want to be with for four years? Statistically, they are very different student bodies. Does your child want to be a big fish in a big pond? Then maybe VT. They might struggle more in VA engineering.
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