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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friends recently looked.  Conservative, protestant, not the same look and feel you'd get at a Northeastern LAC.  Academically better than Wake Forest but below the "little ivies," whatever they are this week.  If you're Virginia, I can't see spending 220,000 on Davidson if you could get Mary Wash for 78,000.

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Davidson is a lot more selective than Mary Washington.  To pull some other schools now being discussed out of a hat, Davidson is a Southern version of a Kenyon or Colby/Bates.  Even if the education is no better, a Davidson degree will get far more attention than a UMW degree.  It used to be considered rather conservative, more so than either Duke or UNC.  However, as main-line Protestantism moved to the left, so did Davidson.  Many graduates are on a pre-professional track, but you'd also find a lot of liberal clergy members in the South who attended Davidson.  A kid considered "preppy" in the DC area would fit very comfortably there.   [/quote]

Kenyon is a great school but not in the same category as Davidson nor the NESCAC schools (Colby, Bates). Ranking, if that's important to you, is Davidson, Colby/Bates and then Kenyon.[/quote]

I'd say Kenyon is in the same tier as Davidson, and that Mary Washington is not in the same category as either.[/quote]

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