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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid picked it over Tulane and BU to study environmental science and has had a great freshman year. Significant merit aid and it seems a lot of kids there truly believed in picking their school based on fit (even if the fit is access to snowboarding) so there are a lot of happy students. Spring semester should be called Winter semester though. They’re coming home right when the weather finally turns good [/quote]

ha that is true, didn't go to UVM but when to a similarly situated school and we never saw good weather during the school year. Maybe the week of finals. I visited once in the summer and hardly recognized it.

[b]UVM used to be a very well respected  state school, hard to get into even. It has fallen alot due to lack of funding from the state among other issues, but Burlington is a great college town.  Spent much time there[/b].[/quote]

You’re just making stuff up. UVM was never particularly difficult to get into. Founded as a private college in 1791, its prestige comes from the fact that it is one of only a few dozen colleges dating back to the 1700s. And to the fact that it has a private  school feel due to the fact that 3/4 of its students are from out of state. And due to the fact that it doesn’t feel like a factory processing 40-50,000 students every year like many state flagships. With only 10,000 or so students, the UVM experience feels much more personal.

UVM is not suffering from a lack of state funding. That’s not its business model. It doesn’t depend on VT’s small tax base like other flagships do pecisel because it has so many students paying out of state tuition, which is set at 250% of instate tuition by statute. It has an endowment of  $3/4 billion dollars, which is triple the endowment of similar size New England flagships like UNH and URI. Money is not one of their problems.

As for weather, cold, snowy weather is precisely what most people are looking for when they go there. Obviously not you. It’s like complaining about snow in the Swiss Alps.[/quote]

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