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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Davidson has the lowest acceptance rate of the three schools. Davidson and W&L are small, wealthy, private LAC’s with a small, highly selective student body. UVA is a huge public school with tens of thousands of students. Davidson and W&L have a far more personalized 8-1 student-to-teacher ratio, while UVA has a 14-1 student-to-teacher ratio. Davidson focuses exclusively on undergraduate students, while UVA and W&L have significant graduate programs which can occasionally take priority over the undergraduates in terms of resources. W&L is an NCAA Division III sports school, while UVA and Davidson are NCAA Division I schools. (Davidson is one of the smallest Divisions I schools in America). Davidson is ranked in the top ten LAC’s in America by US News. W&L is tied at #11. UVA is ranked #25 in the University category, but that includes graduate programs, not exclusively undergraduate. [b]Overall, Davidson has a slightly edge.[/b] As mentioned here, most Americans have never heard of Davidson or W&L. But the people who count in the academic world, and major firms, have. And they count more than the general public. [/quote]

Nice post. One quibble: W&L grad component is the law school which is entirely distinct and has zero impact on undergrad impact. [/quote]

Undergrad *experience*. Sorry. [/quote]

I don't think Davidson has a slight edge over W&L.  W&L has generally had higher standardized test scores, and I've also seen better rankings in ROI.  W&L and Davidson are, as noted, quite different to UVA.  [/quote]

W&L also has an endowment that is considerably larger than that of Davidson.[/quote]

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