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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps the town or W&M isn't for everyone, but somehow W&M is in top 3 for graduation rate and is top for alumni giving rate among national public universities.  Among all colleges, it is number 6 for happiest students in Princeton Review surveys.  [/quote]
The alumni giving rate is more a function of W&M being a far smaller college compared to other public universities and having the wealthiest students (parent's wealth) of any public university.[/quote]

You are going out of your way to be dismissive.  There are many public universities of a similar size to W&M.  The top 20 national universities in alumni giving according to USNWR are:

Princeton, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, USC, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Penn, MIT, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Brown, Georgetown, [b]William & Mary[/b], Columbia, Stanford, Rice, Villanova, Yale, Caltech.

W&M is the only public.  I would argue it a pretty good list to be on.[/quote]

W&M is about 7000 students. How many public universities are of that size?
That list is certainly a good one to be on - also rather impressive of USC considering they are far larger undergraduate population than the others; but again USC is a school of very wealthy students. Regardless, I was responding to the person I quoted who said W&M was the top among public universities. I'm pointing out why thats the case: size and wealthy student population. [/quote]

Unhappy alumni don't tend to give back.  [/quote]
And alumni with student debt because their parents weren't able to put them through college without loans don't tend to give back either. And large universities need far more alumni to give back to make it into a list based on percentages. [/quote]

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