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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]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.[/b]

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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You're nuts.  Generally only the top at McIntire would have a shot.  McIntire has maybe 700 undergraduates.

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