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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA[/quote]

of course you're just being salty. UVA has gone up over the years.[/quote]

[b]UVA was at one time the top ranked public university in USNWR.  [/b]it is now 4th with other publics very close in ranking points.  So you could certainly make a case it has declined.[/quote]

I definitely remember when it was number 2.  But t[b]hen they added the Pell Grant stuff and it went down[/b].  Has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of education of course.[/quote]

This is what has hurt W&M's ranking as well.  All this handwringing etc. is fairly meaningless because a rankings organization decides to shift criteria that is tangential and shifts some schools up and others down.  I think equity is important, but different regions have different proportions of Pell Grant recipients so it makes no sense to use that as a relative criteria when assessing public schools that serve different states.
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