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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]William and Mary dropped a few spots to 38.  UVA, prestigious, stayed at 25.  Maryland is somewhere in the 60s.  Chuckle.[/quote]

William and Mary tumbled to 38.  It is now a worse ranked school than Florida.  It (William and Mary)  is in desperate shape—stagnant number of applications, poor resources, and very few male applicants.[/quote]
Poor resources?  I thought it is a public ivy with lots of research opportunities for undergraduates[/quote]

[b]too stressful and kids aren't happy there.[/b] stress is more acceptable when it comes with a top brand name. w&m's brand is commensurate to the stress. [/quote]

Princeton Review ranked then as some of the happiest in the country, actually.  Faculty resources are dismal.[/quote]

Princeton Review (based on actual surveys) not only rated W&M #1 for happiest students, it also ranked #2 for students love their college.  It is #1 in annual giving rate and #3 in retention rate among public universities.  Those wouldn't be typical results for unhappy students and graduates.

W&M does not have a medical school or research hospital, unlike a lot of the schools ranked higher.  Since attracts a lot of the funded research money and counts toward resources, it puts W&M at a disadvantage in ratings.  But these resources typically have very little to do with undergraduate education.  W&M has long been strong in involving undergraduates in faculty-directed research projects that help with admission to medical and graduate school, particularly in science.  NSF has produce reports on the top feeder schools for STEM PHDs, and W&M was ranked behind only Berkeley for national public universities when evaluated on a per capita basis.[/quote]

That’s all true, but William and Mary still has to play the rankings game.  Or it will be looking for a new president in three years.[/quote]

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