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William and Mary dropped a few spots to 38. UVA, prestigious, stayed at 25. Maryland is somewhere in the 60s. Chuckle.

William and Mary tumbled to 38. It is now a worse ranked school than Florida. It [b](William and Mary) is in desperate shape[/b]—stagnant number of applications, poor resources, and very few male applicants.

I disagree that this shift is all that meaningful. It is ranked #10 of national public colleges. As USNWR tweaks its methodology, a school like W&M which is a public school with a small handful of grad programs, but primarily operates like a private liberal arts college, can fall slightly fall in cracks due to its idiosyncrasy. It's been a top-notch school for its long history and nothing is really changing on that. (I say this with no special bias--not an alum, no kids there).

I tend to agree with this (parent of former student there and another one who went to UVA). But this is the first time I can remember where W&M was not ranked as the sixth best public university. So it’s not time to hit the panic button yet, but too many years of ranking problems will have adverse affects on yield and out of state applications.[/quote]

This is just ridiculous. Why do you continue to grind this axe?  W&M is in better shape now than it ever has been.  Incredible students, faculty, facilities.  Moving toward an endowment of over $1b, which for a public school of its size its incredible.  Just admitted one of its most competitive classes ever.  It's true that apps have not grown in the last couple of years, but to be fair UVA apps were up a minuscule one percent this year.  And UVA's incoming class is weighted 58/42 female/male --exactly the same as W&M.  Yes it's a unique institution being compared to huge state schools; even so it holds its own.  The only reason it fell this year is because the already idiotic USNWR changed it's methodology.

Anyone who thinks you will get a better undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences at Florida, UCSB, UC Irvine, Michigan, UCB or heaven forfend UVA is delusional.  Now there [i]was[/i] a crisis at W&M in 1768 when both Harvard and Yale surpassed it in His Majesty's Colonial College Rankings.   :lol: [/quote]

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