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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ WM has almost 2x the acceptance rate as UVA. [/quote]

But fairly similar academic stats.  So more about differences in popularity than about ease of admittance.[/quote]

WM is not a "lesser" school than UVA, even though a UVA poster wants DCUM to believe that it is. [/quote]

At some you point you should face reality.  W&M is a fine school but it is now clearly regarded below UVA.  Check out the W&M ED thread and you will see students admitted (very fine students) whose weighted GPAs (4.1, 4.2) are clearly below the line for UVA from this area.  W&M appears to be playing the ED angle hard to maintain their student quality and good luck to them - the more highly rated publics in Virginia the better.  But you do not see thread after thread on W&M admission on this board and there is a reason for that.

I am just another parent reading through this forum with no bias towards UVA or W&M.  Just calling it like I see it from the information I have absorbed.[/quote]

I don't accept "reality" that a difference btwn a 4.1/4.2 and a 4.4 with similar SATs etc. is that meaningful--and definitely isn't that meaningful to determining the quality of the school.  People's tendency to use data to make a mountain out of fine distinctions is blinding them to the big picture IMO.  The bigger picture is that they are top tier public institutions--with one being a more typical research institution and the other closer to a liberal arts college.  Research institutions are more in vogue right now with the general population and ranking systems.  I don't have a horse in this race either but I am an academic who cares about these things.  I think that people forming impressions that there are big differences in  quality based on a a couple tenths of a point of GPA or whatever are missing the boat in thinking about quality in higher education. [/quote]

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