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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Virginia has some fantastic state schools. Why pay for private when you can get a better education, with a larger alumni network, at a public? [/quote]

VA state schools are good at some things but overall mediocre in STEM.[/quote]

Virginia has schools that are among the tops among public schools in top pay in STEM fields, top feeders on a percentage basis to STEM PhD programs, and are among the best in admissions to medical schools and other medical programs.[/quote]

Agree, Virginia’s top schools are better than almost all publics as far as STEM and non-stem PhD, MD, Law placement. Berkeley and Georgia Tech have a slight edge in Stem. William&Mary is the only public school in the country that provides the ivy/private top10 feel with small classes, undergrad research potential in all fields , and overall that ideal ivy-size. It is excellent at physics and chemistry. The only schools that truly out-perform Virginia Publics are the Private schools at the very top: ivies/Stanford/JHU/Duke/Chicago/Northwestern. All have a liberal arts(arts&Sciences) education as well as Engineering and all are “feeders” to med and top law as well as send their Engineers to top phDs or tech careers , &have a start-up culture. Virginia schools and even Berkeley and GT do not provide the setting these schools do, where you can do many things across disciplines and achieve top outcomes. That is why people who can afford the top schools go there, and thankfully they have amazing financial aid so the vast majority of families making less than 200k get a better deal at these schools than Virginia publics. [/quot

HHI is just one factor in the financial aid picture. If you have even moderate assets you will get zero aid. [/quote]

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