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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Radford was part of Tech for a while

ODU was part of W&M

I think ODU is underrated, really, and Radford is a nice little campus.

Why did the state let the top 3 grow so much? It seems pretty obvious that growing those schools by a lot hurts the smaller schools.[/quote]

It's stupid that public schools based in one area of the state are allowed to cannibalize public schools in other parts of the state. If there's so much demand, then either fund the existing schools to up their level or create another school which will probably be more beneficial (profitable??) than these haphazardly placed satellite campuses. It also demonstrates that the current state model of VA publics is a failure.[/quote]

It wouldn't be discussed if some public schools weren't failures. When a school is bleeding students, something needs to change and the answer isn't forcing students to go to a school they have no interest in attending just to please administrators and faculty. [/quote]

Students and parents also need better college counseling. Some of these colleges could be great for a lot of kids if students weren’t obsessed with social media and parents weren’t drooling over prestige. [/quote]

Longwood is basically open admission. The kid with the 1100 SAT (their median) probably isn't concerned with prestige. They are bad schools because they don't have compelling offerings and they are located in the middle of nowhere 
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Plenty of LAC’s are located in the middle of nowhere and are highly selective. Let’s not pretend Longwood’s academic offerings are not comprehensive enough or that Farmville isn’t charming. Snobs will never give it a fair shake. [/quote]

Those LACS offer something students want. [/quote]

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