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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT is much better than JMU and VCU. Now that  many schools are TO you need to be very careful about attending the will maintain it’s reputation over the next 10-20 years. Before schools went TO, there was a minimum bar for competency in order to be admitted, now there is not. The students at VT are much more capable on overage than JMU or VCU. Before TO admission  the 25-75 range for JMU SATs was 1120-1290 (65th-84th percentile SAT score). The 25-75 range for VT was 1180-1380.  (75th-94th percentile SAT scores). TO is going to destroy the value of  degrees from universities are not at least a VT or NCSU caliber because theses schools no longer have an accurate mechanism to filter our students who got straight As for having a pulse, but have room temp IQs. [/quote]

Got rejected by JMU, did ya? [/quote]

No, I  went to a more competitive university. Not knocking on JMU, I am just worried that college degrees are effectively becoming worthless unless the universities have a strict quality standards for students. The benefit of college is more the signaling value (of some level of competence) to employers and networking. Both of these benefits are diminished substantially with TO admissions and online learning. Especially now that we have AI that is fairly accurate for most coursework and answering test questions its becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate the people who are capable from the people who know almost nothing. I think we are quickly entering a world where diplomas outside of T100 universities will become almost worthless. [/quote]

OP don’t listen to this fool. I have a degree from a top university and a very good job. I work with people who are smart and good at what they do who went to a wide range of universities. Look all the way up the ranks of any Fortune 500 company and you’ll see the same.

As most sane posters have said, your DC should pick the school that he/she likes best. I can assure you that in 20 years a VCU degree won’t be worthless and a VT degree somehow worth its weight in gold.  Not happening.[/quote]
Degrees are just proxies for intelligence checks. If it were legal and unproblematic for companies to administer IQ tests they probably would. A VTech degree signals more positively than does a VCU degree in most fields.[/quote]

When did VT become and elite school? It’s harder to get into than it used to be but it ain’t UVA. Especially for a business major.
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It’s trickle down from UVA and WM getting impossible for many kids to get into.  In addition, the increased expense of college has made many parents focus on the marketability of degrees rather than classic liberal arts. Tech has always had a vocational focus and many of its majors were specifically designed in conjunction with industry. I’m thinking of construction management, hospitality management, the entire engineering college, and many of the agriculture majors. [/quote]
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It's probably the most career focused VA public (male % reflects this) and used to be the only one of the t3 VA publics to have reasonable admissions standards that are now unreasonable and exclusionary.[/quote]

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