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[quote=Anonymous]For any student or parent reading this, as a Virginia resident, we are extremely lucky to have a wide variety of great public colleges that residents of other states would kill to have.  Encourage your student to pick the right fit university and worry less about what any of these personal opinions say.  What employers and graduate schools look for is the whole person...not just where they went to school, but what did they do while they were there.  So much of deciding where to go has to do with the fit, the experience the student seeks, what they think they want to study.

You can look at the stats from each school, but remember, they are different schools (for instance, Tech stats are skewed because of their phenomenal engineering program and therefore, the GPAs and SATs, etc. are skewed).  As a life long Virginian, I have known VERY successful and happy people who have graduated from JMU, UVA, W&M, GMU, Tech and others.

Your student can't go wrong picking any of these universities.  But, having two kids in college now (one at JMU and one at UVA) I'd definitely ask:  size of undergraduate classes, who teaches them a TA or a professor, what are the support systems in place for students in terms of tutoring/counseling, etc. (even the smartest kids sometimes need help), etc.

Best of luck and don't worry about these personal opinion posts.  Most everyone I know loves the Va school that they went to and wouldn't trade their experience.  You can't go wrong with any of these schools.[/quote]

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