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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA CS curricular is fairly cookie cutter.  If the student has enough AP credit, he can venture out and enroll in classes at the undergrad business school, which is highly ranked nationally.  The combined experience might be a more rewarding one than VT CS.  
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Some classes offered by the commerce school have limited enrollment so you are not allowed to sign up if you are not in the school.  To OP, congrats!  We faced the same decision making 4 years ago and spent quite a lot of time researching on this forum.  There are pros and cons for each, in the end, our DC opted for UVA.  Their honors program, proximity to home, undecided about the major made UVA a better choice.  Looking back, VT is probably a better match.  I feel DC's curriculum is too theoretical (even though DC's class is the last one to have their old curriculum), and too many distributional requirements.  Like many posters have said, it's a brutal year for CS graduates to find a job.  Most jobs do not care about the distributional requirements (other than in the form of GPA) but do require online assessments first.  For CS jobs, as long as you can pass the online assessments and then progress to actual interviews, it doesn't matter which school you go to.  Hope it helps.[/quote]

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