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[quote=Anonymous]PP The thrust of this thread is why many students, primarily male, prefer UVA, Virginia Tech and even JMU to W&M.

Reason is, top-tier recruiting is not as good.

While you are correct that not many students go to the top firms, thats the point of being top firms. Usually, only the top 10-20% of the class at a top public has the change to get into a firm like McKinsey or Goldman. But thats a huge number of students - 3000 UVA students that can get in for internships and jobs, half the size of W&M's undergrad population.

For tech, its more about skill than grades, so the door is wider. But if the company doesn't even recruit from your college/come to your job fair, it gets a lot harder to get noticed filling out job/internship applications online.

Also, all the investment/consulting firms that I listed recruit at Notre Dame. That's why I don't put much onto rankings. The education might be better at W&M Business, but the top firms at Notre Dame are better.

Your college is either or a target school where the firm recruits from, or its not. If its not, you need a hell lot of networking, often through parents, to get in, especially in finance/consulting.

So yes you can get a good job and good education. But the students that get into W&M, UVA, Virginia Tech are go-getters - they want the top jobs. They can get a good job from any of the schools, but they will have a much harder time getting a top job from W&M due to lack of recruiting/not being a target school. 
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