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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got into honors at uva, for "top 5% of applicants."  Exciting, but also applied to Harvard etc. Would it be better to be part of the "top 5%" at uva, or average at Harvard, assuming my child gets in?  UVA honors implies opportunity to standout from the start, with the opportunities that may accompany that, I guess, but is that reason enough to pass up the harvard credential/connections?  OOS, so it's not vastly less expensive to go to UVA.  Kid is interested in CS, engineering and stem more broadly, but not sure re career or grad school, etc.[/quote]

And anyone have experience with uva honors and perspective to offer?[/quote]

Obviously go with with the better school. The Echols program was invented to help UVa improve its stats and for good PR (“our students are doing XYz amazing intellectually weighty things! We are a real university!”) to cover for the good ole boy drinking and criminal frat behavior that is a large part of UVA culture. The white supfemacists picked the rotunda for a reason.

That said if Echols is your best offer it is nice to not have to take any gen eds and it does grease the skids around grounds for further intellectual opportunities.[/quote]

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