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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He sounds exactly like my son who is now a 3rd year at UVA.  He is an Echols Scholar is very involved in the Jefferson Society.  
https://jeffersonsociety.org/  He is a history major and plans to go to law school.

UVA certainly has its share of sporty boys and there is Greek life, but there are also a lot of kids like my son who love UVA and have found their people. [/quote]

+1. Seriously consider UVA because of the Jefferson Society, America’s oldest continuously running debate society. My pre-law kid was in it for four years, served as an officer and recently returned for the Society’s 200th anniversary. Look also at UVA’s PPL major (politics, philosophy & law). That, and great LOCs (some of which came out of faculty contacts via Jef Soc), got him into a MPhil program at Cambridge. He goes to Harvard Law in August. You will be applying OOS, which will be around $80k (same as W&M) - so still less than some of the $94k ones being discussed here) but with your son’s credentials you should look into having your high school nominate him for the Jefferson Scholar program, which is very competitive, but, should he get it, pays for everything plus spending allowance. A number of Jef Scholars participated in Jef Soc. There are several threads here on applying for the Jefferson Scholar program. Good luck![/quote]

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