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[quote=Anonymous]UVA has an honors engineering program (Rodman scholars - Echols scholars are the equivalent in Arts & Sciences), which is a very close-knit and supportive group; as an Echols and later an RA in the Echols/Rodman dorms, I lived with several female Rodman scholars and they were all brilliant, really thrived in that program, and have gone on to great jobs at companies like Exxon and P&G.  My impression is that UVA is strong in 'softer' disciplines like Systems, Civil, and Biomedical engineering (plus the Architecture school is very strong, if OP's DD might be leaning that direction, as well).  For things like Industrial, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Agriculture - Tech is likely a better bet.  There is a large ROTC presence in the UVA Engineering school, although many ROTC students take 5 years to finish the engineering degree because the school doesn't do a great job of integrating the ROTC and BS requirements.

Slightly OT, but ironic based on years of reputation and recent media coverage, I think Tech might be the bigger Greek/'party' school these days (source: my little sister who is a current UVA student).[/quote]

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