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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're a straight guy who wants to go to med school, W&M is awesome. [b]The gender ratio is heavily tilted toward women, [/b]so as long as you keep a decent appearance and are not a weirdo, you will always have a date. The school is strong in hard sciences (chem, bio, physics) and you'll have small classes. Very small labs cohorts, so you'll get plenty of time on the bench. And since you have small classes, you can get really personalized recommendations.

As other have pointed out, W&M sends a ridiculously high percentage of students onward to doctorate and professional programs (MD, JD, MBA). It's a very solid school to prepare you for an Ivy League graduate program. [/quote]

The gender ratio isn't just a W&M thing.  Most schools have gender ratios tilted toward women.  The national average is now close to 58%.  Recent entering classes at Virginia schools were:  UVA 57% female, VCU 64%, JMU 59%, Longwood 69%, CNU 56%, MWU 66%, Radford 59%, ODU 53%.  W&M was 58%. Only male majority were VT at 55% male and VMI at 83% male. GMU was 50/50. UNC-CH was 59% female and Emory was 60%.

VMI is obviously male majority due to history and military education.  VMI is likely majority male due to large engineering school and other programs like agriculture.  Engineering tends to enroll more males.  [/quote]

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