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Anonymous
VT is great school with good academics and soccer. Agree. |
Anonymous
That statement doesn’t rebut the former statement, which merely said there are some bad coaches at the lower levels. Didn’t state all coaches at the lower levels were bad. Nor did it state all coaches on the top teams were good. The point was that LS has some good coaching and that FCV is not some sort of panacea for soccer coaching. Glad you agree. |
Anonymous
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This board is actually knocking VT as a women's soccer program now...
Amazed with the consolidation of thought on this board... How many would turn down VT if they came knocking for your DD? |
Anonymous
Every single parent in this board would jump at an offer ftom VT for their daughter and would immediately put it on social media. |
Anonymous
No scholarship to UVA or W&M vs. offer from VT? UVA or W&M. |
Anonymous
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Just to weigh on on VT - as someone who went there, it's a great school for many people but it's not for everyone. As far as women's soccer, it's not that great a program; it certainly was not a top 25 program last year https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/united-soccer-coaches
And as far as stating that everyone on this board would accept a scholarship there, the answer is no. That team has a lot of dysfunction, a fact we've (both my DD and I) have heard from players on the team and from parents of players on the team. Lastly, as others have noted, being on FCV is not the only ticket to get an offer from VT, as one of the two VT commitments from FCV made her commitment while on Spirit |
Anonymous
A crap degree from the top schools in the country is nothing more than a $200,000 piece of paper that will leave you in debt with no real means to repay. A kid with an engineering degree from VT will find a better job than a kid with a sports science degree from William and Mary. A kid with a STEMS degree from James Madison will be more successful than a kid with a performing arts degree from Harvard. A "big time" school is only important if its matched with a "big time" degree. If not, save your money. |
Anonymous
Great school with 98% acceptance rate. So so soccer. |
Anonymous
The kids playing soccer at VT are not likely to be in the engineering program. Look at the roster. |
Anonymous
| As someone who played at VT and went there, I think its comical those dogging it for not being a top 25 program. Unless your DD is in the 1%, those teams consistently in the top 10 will not be looking at her. 90% of your DD will not get an opportunity to play at any ACC or D1 school, and certainly if you are not on a DA or ECNL team unless you are just that random needle in a haystack. All teams have dysfunctions and its also about how you fit into the program itself. Several of my teammates played at D1 schools and we all had our complaints for different reasons. |
Anonymous
I totally agree. |
Anonymous
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You guys are truly missing the point.
Stop hyper focusing on the strength of the soccer program and start focusing on the strength of the school and the strength on the degree in the real market. This in not the 80's when a degree was enough to separate you. Take a look around! We are bringing people in from other countries to take six figure jobs because our kids are getting liberal arts degrees and living at home. The next four years can help set up the remainder of their life and your worried about a soccer program? Tell me this, what was the roster and record of the 1982 UVA women's soccer team? Anyone know? EXACTLY |
Anonymous
I get your point. It's important, but did UVA even have a women's soccer program in 1982? Not sure they did. |
Anonymous
That just makes that previous poster's point more emphatically. Not only do most not know if they were good, most don't know if they even existed. |
Anonymous
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https://nypost.com/2015/01/03/overpaying-for-college/
"Millennials are carrying too much debt from loans that went to pay for college degrees that, in the real world, aren’t worth that much." Even into the 1960s and ’70s, says Vedder, a “college grad was a special kind of person; they could still get a half-way decent job.” "the market has caught on to the real truth: A college degree today just doesn’t mean what it did in the past." “Now, almost a third of the adult population has four-year degrees .?.?. but almost a quarter are living with their parents two years after graduation, so even though their reported income is low, being at the margin is kind of important. It’s a sort of prosperous form of poverty,” he concluded In other words, the day when a college degree was the guarantee of a good job and a comfortable, middle-class life is gone. "And millennials with soft degrees that don’t mean much are finding out the hard way that in the end you don’t always get what you paid for — especially at our modern American universities." Again, we can talk in circles about all "these great universities" with "great name recognition" and "top soccer programs" There if life after soccer. Don't set your kid up for failure. |