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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why did William and Mary fall so much?  Is it a worse school now that US News says it is no better than FSU?[/quote]

The new ranking criteria places a high value on equity, social mobility, and other non-academic factors. W&M doesn’t score as highly in those areas. It’s a smaller, liberal arts school with a highly academic reputation that is less appealing to minorities. It gets dinged in the ratings because of that. [/quote]

Go figure.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/social-mobility

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/economic-diversity

2025 usnews rank/School/pell grant %

15/UCLA (Los Angeles)/28
17/UCB (Berkeley)/29
29/UCSD (San Diego)/34
33/UCI (Irvine)/36
33/UCD (Davis)/31
39/UCSB (Santa Barbara)/28
58/UCM (Merced)/58
76/UCR (Riverside)/52

24/UVA/15
54/W&M/12[/quote]

The percentage of the population in poverty is significantly higher in California.  Using the Supplemental Poverty Rate, the poverty rate in California is 57% higher than the poverty rate in Virginia.  Pell eligibility is based on an income multiple of the guideline for poverty.  That likely explains a significant part of the difference.  [/quote]

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