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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For this year, W&L has reported a general acceptance rate of 13.56%:

https://www.wlu.edu/admissions/apply/new-class-profile[/quote]

Wow—W&L is better than UVa?[/quote]

Look they are apples and oranges. There is a good reason US News has liberal arts schools on a different list. Totally different kinds of schools! personally I prefer liberal arts schools and think you get a better education at them as a rule, but I would never say that W&L is "better."

You can't take one statistic and compare it to determine which is better, you can't even take three. W&L is a tiny school that can only take a small number, of course the admissions rate is low. It really doesn't tell you much. The schools  have comparable SAT scores but a lot more first-years at UVA actually submitted their scores, which suggests that overall UVA's students have scored higher.

My anecdata is that I know a few kids who got into W&L but not UVA. I don't know anyone who got into UVA but was rejected from W&L, yet I am sure there are some.
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