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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve never known anyone, or heard about anyone,  who said, oh, I didn’t get into William & Mary, so now I’m going to UMW.  Aim higher.[/quote]

You're not a Virginia resident.[/quote]

+1 The only state schools DD is applying to are W&M and UMW. She's also applying to a variety of LACs that will probably give merit aid so she's not likely to choose Mary Washington but it does have good programs for her major and is both an admissions and financial safety. She mainly doesn't like that it's close to home. Christopher Newport could be another alternative as a smaller school and its incoming students have a very similar stats profile but she preferred UMW.

The bind is that if you have the stats to be competitive for W&M, the other schools that are matches probably don't give much merit aid. So you need to look a tier down. Went through the same thing with DS who had strong stats but didn't get into UVA. He liked big state schools and applied to a variety. The OOS, even with merit, didn't seem worth the extra cost and he's happily going to VT.[/quote]

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