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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT is just trying to stay competitive with UVA and W&M.   Its America price equals prestige in the mind of many, especially the DCUM crowd.

Plus great food is one of the things that makes them stand out and JMU is knocking at the door to become VA’s third best public school.  [/quote]

Tech would be exactly on par with JMU if it weren’t for their engineering school. [/quote]

VTs business school is world's better than JMU too.[/quote]

JMU showed up in the top 20 among public schools in the WSJ list of highest incomes for graduates working in accounting and management consulting.  VT only for management consulting.[/quote]

VT also didn't show up in the top 20 for graduate salaries in technology, engineering, data science, or software development in the WSJ lists.[/quote]

Yet WSJ ranked VA Tech #1 overall of all Virginia schools. [/quote]

Let me see, pay levels of actual graduates vs a list put together to try to compete with USNWR.[/quote]

UNSWR ranks VT ahead of W&M[/quote]

And for some stuff it is. 
1. Engineering and related fields like CS (as W&M has no engineering school) 
2. Other criteria that USNWR has decided are imporyant simply because they correlate with being a very good school.

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DP.  FIFY.[/quote]

New criteria gives 11% to Pell-Grant related criteria. An additional 5% also is based off of criteria related to those getting federal loans. If you are a recipient then yes it's an importnaCitt area to consider in picking a school, but if you are not then it's not particularly relevant to how good the school is.

Scoring of 6 year (!!) graduation rates based on whether they exceed expectations or not is 10%. Personally my goal for my kid is to graduate in 4 years - 5 TOPS. And it's a black and white question of whether they do or don't - giving plus points for doing better than expected at this generous timeline largely overlaps with the low-income factors addressed in the Pell Grant criteria.

Citatons and publications - typically higher for big universities that use lots of grad students to actually deal with undergrads rather than having the bulk of that fall to professors themselves - count for 4%

SAT scores on the other hand count for only 5%.

It's a ridiculous scoring system that is not actually focused on the quality of the school at this point.

I'm not saying Tech is a bad school. It has a great engineering school. And the rest of it is a good solid mid-tier education level. But it is not on par with UVA and W&M for anything outside the engineering school. [/quote]

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