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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ashland/Randolph-Macon.

The college has a smaller enrollment than even our HS but they’ve got an Amtrak station right on-campus! The town itself has a quintessential and quirky Main St with a handful of festivals and parades every year. Only one “big” grocery store and Walmart is banished to the outskirts of town. Fall Football Saturdays are picturesque and the team has had some success of late.

But it’ll cost ya. Rack rate is close to 70K but they’ve been known to be generous with aid to VA students. [/quote]

Most of the privates in VA offer great scholarships, save W&L and Richmond.

Don’t forget the VTAG money.

It definitely made several of the colleges we explored more reasonable.

Randolph would have been $20k all in, and that was with the lowest level of merit.[/quote]

Are you talking about RMC in Ashland or Randolph in Lynchburg?  In the good old days, RMC was all male and Randolph Macon’s Women’s College (now Randolph) was all female but now they are both coed and confusion has increased.  [/quote]

The original post in this string was about RMC in Ashland. The "cost" was mentioned. I doubt many RMC students pay the actual full cost to attend, as most of the VA privates (save the 2 top privates) give a decent amount of scholarship money and/or discounts.

I mentioned Randolph in Lynchburg (which used to be the women's college of RMC) because my daughter applied there and got merit, plus a couple of other small scholarships/discounts. Then we would have used VTAG. The actual price of the school, after all that, was very reasonable—cheaper than her in-state public option, which was Radford.

We also considered Shenandoah and Emory & Henry, plus explored Sweet Briar and Hollins, all of which would have been more reasonable with the VTAG money included.[/quote]

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