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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just find it odd none of my son's friends from various high schools in the area had no interest in applying to W&M.  Many of them chose in state schools (UVA, VT and JMU). 
W&M is such a highly regarded school and it is so surprising to me.  [/quote]

W&M is hard, not fun, and doesn't have hot chicks.

It's not hard to understand from the viewpoint of a 18 year old boy. [b]And it doesn't have enough sheer national/international preftige to compensate for the above attributes. 
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I think this is very much true. W&M is a very good, rigorous and some would say 'hard' school. Virginians and the few people who know about it consider it to be a great, rigorous school.

It's also a 'boring' school compared to the large publics like Michigan, and even compared to the top privates like Notre Dame, Dartmouth, etc.

Problem is, it doesn't have the widespread prestige outside of Virginia and throughout the country and throughout the world that schools like U. Chicago and Johns Hopkins - two supposedly terribly boring and hard schools - have.

For example, UVA is generally considered to be an easier school to do well in than W&M. And UVA is certainly considered a party school. But UVA has far more reach across the country and has far more top firms and employers recruit from their career fair than W&M.

Top investment and private equity firms, top tech firms, etc. don't come to W&M career fairs and don't target W&M students. If they get into these firms they do so through their own networks, not through the school's.  [/quote]

Whoever you are, you are fact-free and bias-rich.

Undergraduate graduates First/Next destination reports for 2018 (on websites - last ones available and snapshot at 6 months after graduation):

UVA 2018:  65% working; 17% still looking; 16% continuing education; 1% volunteering; 1% military; 1% not seeking.
W&M 2018:  75% working; 5% still looking; 15% continuing education;  2% working part time; 2% pursuing grad school; 2% other.

Both are fine schools but should have more STEM majors for the way national hiring trends have been going.

Average UVA GPA in 2013:  3.32.  Average W&M GPA in 2014:  3.33  gradeinflation.com[/quote]

Added VT below for additional context.

Undergraduate graduates First/Next destination reports from each website for 2018.  Survey data.  These are snapshot at 6 months after graduation:

W&M 2018:  75% working; 5% still looking; 15% continuing education;  2% working part time; 2% pursuing grad school; 2% other.
UVA 2018:  65% working; 17% still looking; 16% continuing education; 1% volunteering; 1% military; 1% not seeking.
VT 2018:  56% working (or have job offer); 14% still looking (or will be looking); 18% continuing education; 3% military; 4% pursuing grad school; 5% other

Average W&M GPA in 2014:  3.33.  Average UVA GPA in 2013:  3.32.  Average VT GPA in 3 gradeinflation.com[/quote]

^ Average VT GPA was 3.15 in 2015[/quote]

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