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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you have to look if the school is right for the kid. My kid is not an academic rockstar -- he's very average (and not DCUM average with "only a 4.1 GPA". He will be best suited in a smaller environment, he will be focusing on liberal arts, and he wants to be within 2-3 hours of home.  So we're totally looking at CNU and UMW, as we would prefer to not have him take any loans (we can pay instate tuition outright), and places like GMU are indeed too commuter for us -- that campus feels like an office park. I personally like UVA and W&M, but I'm realistic to know that there's not a chance in heck he'd get in there. Given how nuts admissions have been, I'm even a bit despondent that he'll get in there - he's not  one of those high-charging kids with lots of ECs, and he's very mildly HFA, so he's also content to just chill.

It has zero to do with the diversity or fear of "urban" environments. I want him to be somewhere where there's a chance that someone will know his name and a professor or two might actually look out for him.[/quote]

Not only wouldn't my son get accepted at UVA, he would not be able to stay there.[/quote]

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