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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^About going where "everyone looks like you":  that's the (almost lone but sometimes insurmountable problem with UVA, VaTech and JMU). There are so many kids at these colleges that the HS kids already know, they're calling the first year "13th grade". [/quote]I literally knew everyone in my class by sophomore year at my small LAC. I totally understand the interest in a larger school where there is more variety. UVA, Tech, and JMU are BIG schools and even if some think their student bodies look the same, that just isn't possible with their size.[/quote]
Well then I guess I don't know why they call it 13th grade.  [/quote]

I think it's probably a bit of a defense mechanism to deal with assholes who denigrate their choice or point out how many kids from their HS are going there.[/quote]
I think it's because they'll know literally hundreds of kids before they get there. Lots of our neighbor's kids have been in school together since Kindergarten and they've played on NoVa-wide sports teams for almost 10 years (so they know lots more kids than just their local schools) and they joke that they're going off to 13th grade together.  [/quote]

Seriously?  How often are these kids really going to see each other once at a large college campus?  I went to a large VA school along with many others from high school and can count on one hand the number of times we actually ran into one another.  There are thousands of other students at these schools.  [/quote]
At least from what our kids have observed recently with the "pick your roommate" method, every kid knows all their roommates when they start.  And, the friends hang out with friends -- most of whom knew each other from high school and before.  So, it seems my kids' experiences are different from yours 20 years ago.  [/quote]

I have a DS who is a current junior at one of VA's state schools.  Lots of his classmates also went to this school and yet he has almost never run into them.  The ones who knew one another in high school deliberately chose roommates they'd never met before so as to avoid what you're describing.  Perhaps your kids should have/could have done the same.   [/quote]

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