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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]generally speaking, if you think you might end up living and working somewhere else, I'd advise going to a shitty national type state school over a decent regional school.  That means I prefer schools like WVU, NC State and Ole Miss over places like VCU, ODU and UMBC.  If you apply in San Diego, at least they will have heard of where you went to school. [/quote]

I actually think JMU falls into this category as well.  I don't think it has the national name recognition that UVa, VT and W & M have.[/quote]

I actually think that's the case for all of them (no national name recognition) except for UVA and W&M.  I went to school in the Midwest and really, none of these schools are on anyone's radar screens out there.  They would have heard about UVA and, maybe, W&M.  They just have their own state schools which they are all consumed about and wrapped up in that these don't really penetrate through that regional parochialism.  Which is totally fine, not criticizing them, we are the same way:  not like we are all walking around thinking about Valparaiso or Marquette or perfectly fine schools like that. . . .just my two cents. . . [/quote]

everyone in the midwest has heard of Virginia Tech, don't be an idiot.[/quote]

I think everyone by now has heard of Virginia Tech...[/quote]

largest school in the state, top 40 public university, not to mention top 10 football team every year and the recent tragedy.[/quote]

I went to VT.  I think it's a fine school.  But I kid you not, this really happened to me.  I went on an interview at a big, prestigious law firm in Los Angeles and the partner asked whether VTwas a 4 year university.  He was a really nice man, and I really don't think he was being condescending but he seriously thought it was some sort of a 2 year technical school.  Needless to say, I did not get an offer.    This was about 8 years ago.  And this doesn’t apply to just VT.  I lived in NYC for about a decade and I would say that VA schools are not as highly esteemed as they are in this state.  I was shocked to return to this area from NYC to find UVA compared to ivy league schools because they just aren’t at that level elsewhere.  I absolutely believe that it is just as hard to get into UVA as many Ivy schools and that the ed is just as good there as any Ivy, but trust me, it does not compare in name recognition to any of the Ivies, not even a lower tiered Ivy like Cornell.  In NY, UVA was seen as pretty much a decent large state university (but not even at the level of Berkeley, Michigan or Chapel Hill).  It did not have the same prestige as any Ivy.  And I never even came across anyone in NY who had heard of WM.  And this was not that many years ago, less than 5 years ago. [/quote]

My goodness do you comb with as broad a brush as you compare New Yorkers?  I have no skin in the game, but UVA is not on par with UVM or UNC, both are basically open admin to state residents, more so with UNC. UVA is on par with Duke and Stanford, IMHO. [/quote]

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