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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA was not our backup, but we did pick William and Mary over UVA.[/quote]

smart decision, it's a private ivy-like education for a public school price.[/quote]

The sad thing about William & Mary is its free fall in the rankings.  It's not even a Top 50 school anymore.[/quote]

My kid loves W&M, but honestly is somewhat bothered by the lower ranking.  She is deciding between W&M (where she loves everything, but the ranking) v. UVA (where she mainly loves it for the ranking).  She understands that the ranking methodology is based on things that don't affect her personally (i.e. Pell grant recipients) - but still seeing the ranking so far away from UVA is bothersome to her.  Yet, W&M is one of those rare schools that seems to have maintained its prestige and reputation without the corresponding ranking.  I wonder if its small size made it unable to cater to the metrics that are important in the rankings.  [/quote]

DD feels pressured to go to UVA (from her friends mainly b/c of the ranking), but she, too, genuinely feels like W&M is a better fit.  She wants to like UVA b/c she is "supposed to," but keeps feeling drawn to W&M.  We are going to the admitted students event this weekend and will most likely make a decision at the end of the day.  [/quote]

That was DD 2 years ago.  Just without pressure from friends, more a feeling of general expectations.  The admitted student days were very different and after 3 weeks of belly aching, she went with the choice that truly spoke more to her.  No regrets on her part.

As a shy introvert it took her a year to find her place and friends, but that is her.  She is making connections slow and at her pace.  She built a great relationship with a professor in who's lab she is working as a soph. She now has a lab job at the city where she is doing study abroad semester (Prof called her connections in that country).[/quote]

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