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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This obsession with rankings is kind of crazy.  Some schools just fit certain students better than others.

For example many kids who apply to William and Mary don't even apply to Virginia, and vice versa. Virginia does southern prep very well, and not everybody is into that.  William and Mary appeals to the nerdier types.  Some kids want an urban campus and VCU fills that better than the other VA schools. It's not all about rankings.

It's not like all the best students go to UVA, the second best to W&M, and the third best to JMU. It's more nuanced than that.[/quote]

Totally agree. My spouse is a high school teacher at a top-ranked NoVA public school and reports that top students looking at Virginia state schools (and their parents) have a very strong preference for UVA *or* W&M; even kids who apply to both typically strongly prefer one over the other. In spouse's experience, the third choice is typically Tech, unless the kid is interested in engineering or architecture or is the child of a Tech alum, then Tech rises.[/quote]

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