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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond [/b]is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M.  I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school.  You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition.  Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?[/quote]

I'm curious how you arrived at this conclusion. Do you have a cite?   U of R is called only "moderately selective" whereas UVA and W&M are both "highly selective". Schev's report on GPAs has both UVA and W&M way ahead of UOR: weighted gpas at at UVA at the 75th percentile at a 4.51 and 4.53 for W&M. U0R's is only a weighted 3.95.  UoR does not attract the same caliber of student as does W&M or UVA[/quote]

Not the OP but you can simply google this

UVA acceptance rate - 18.7%
W&M acceptance rate - 33.5%
Richmond acceptance rate - 24.4%

not really comparable, closest is between UVA and Richmond[/quote]

No one compares the selectivity figures of publics against privates. you can't. It's apples and oranges.  [/quote]

+1. They attract very different applicant classes. Also the 24 pervent that pp cites doesn't include the EA class, which is 30 percent, so the usual overall figure given is 29.7 percent for UoR[/quote]

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