If you HAD to chose one - which school would you go to: VA Tech or PENN State
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Anonymous
That's really stupid. The only thing umd has is one of the Google founders did his under grad there. Other than that the stem programs at gmu, vetch and Uva are miles ahead. |
Anonymous
How old are you? 12? You have difficulty with opinions of others resulting with comments like that's dumb or that's stupid simply because you disagree. You can disagree intelligently without name calling. It might make your argument more plausible. |
Anonymous
Where are you getting your information? As reported by the schools on their common data sets (VA in-state rates reported by the VA State Council of Higher Education): 2012-2013 VA in-state acceptance rates: GMU--65% VT--66% 2013-2014 overall acceptance rates: Penn St--55% GMU--62% VT--70% 2013-2014 math SAT middle 50% VT 580-680 Penn State 550-660 GMU 530-630 reading SAT middle 50% VT 540-640 GMU 520-620 Penn State 520-620 average GPA VT--3.95 GMU--3.66 Penn State--3.57 Yield (% of accepted students who enroll--an indication of the school's desirability) VT--52% GMU--34% Penn State--34% |
Anonymous
"If proper record submission had been required in Virginia in 2007 for background checks, Cho would have never obtained the weapons he used in the horrendous rampage. He had a mental health adjudication from December 2005, when a Virginia special justice declared him mentally ill and said that he was "an imminent danger" to himself." http://www.policymic.com/articles/83633/i-was-shot-4-times-in-the-deadliest-massacre-in-u-s-history |
Anonymous
Exactly. Would the PP not go to NYC because of 9-11? Not go to Cornell or MIT because they have a high suicide rate? I certainly don't mean to undermine your feelings, and there are other kids who may share your thoughts. Life is unpredictable and to avoid VA Tech could be a loss for you. |
Anonymous
Or it could be a rational decision. See The Many Deaths of Virginia Tech. http://www.amazon.com/The-Many-Deaths-Virginia-Tech/dp/1470182254/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top |
Anonymous
You'rekidding, right? |
Anonymous
This book is disgusting. I'm sorry I even clicked on the link because I was blissfully unaware it existed. |
Anonymous
+1 whoever Chuck Marsh is, he is an asshole. |
Anonymous
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This is the summary on Amazon:
Virginia Tech is America's Cursed College, home to horrifying events from hit-and-runs to students being shot in the woods; prison escapes to public self-mutilations; police officers being gunned down to public beheadings; and of course, the notorious mass shooting that killed 33 people. But why is Virginia Tech the most infamous university in the United States? What is the reason for Virginia Tech's many tragedies? Chuck Marsh has written the only book of its kind: a gripping and frightening account of the Hokie Horrors. The Many Deaths of Virginia Tech is a spellbinding chronicle -- an expose -- of an oversized American university locked in a death-struggle with itself -- or with unseen forces. This book takes the reader on a tour through the many crimes and calamities at Virginia Tech in the past decade: a no-holds-barred account of an out-of-control hunger for violence at an American university. |
Anonymous
Um, thanks for copying and pasting so no one has to click the link? GTFO. |
Anonymous
All you Virginians are secretly hoping you have the luxury to turn down Tech. You'd never admit it openly because to do so would imply your baby geniuses might not be a shoe-in at Charlottesville. Since most of you came from someplace else and were cream of the crop in your podunk towns, you assume your kids will be as well and that they will waltz into UVA or Ivy this or that or some other elite. Fact is, they might but competition is harder here in the big city both in terms of the students and in terms of college distribution acceptance. As a third generation DC area resident, I have seen this cycle and lived it. You come here, think you are special and that DC is provincial and "not NY or LA" or whatever. Then you meet people and most people here are above average and assume their kids are too. Prepare to be disappointed when you take Christopher Newport because Tech won't accept your AAP genius and neither will JMU. Your kids will do fine at Elon and you will describe it as an elite school. 
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Anonymous
Most objective rankings out there don't agree. I'm a hiring manager for Comp Sci majors and we've had much better luck with UMD grads vs grads from almost any other school. |
Anonymous
We live in VA and a neighbor kid was a Big 3 grad who wanted to in math in college. He looked carefully at all the VA state school programs and even the in-state tuition could not convince him to stay in state. He is majoring in math at Maryland now. |
Anonymous
| No one wants to go to Maryland. Nice try. |