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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA is very weak in STEM areas. Top 20-30% of TJ kids are not interested in attending UVA. TJ is still a safety for at least 50% of the TJ students and attending UVA is regarded as a failure by TJ students.[/quote]

Just curious, what do the TJ students who go to UVA generally major in?[/quote]

Engineering, or I know several who are in McIntire and a few of those are double majoring in Comp Sci through Arts and Sciences.[/quote]

Why would anybody go to UVA to study engineering or Computer Science? I know of a UVA grad in computer science who could not find a job in the computer field.[/quote]

Must not have done well in college because the top companies all recruit at UVA.

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:roll:  we know-- [b]UVA is the best at everything. But not Engineering, where it is ranked 32 (US New, Engineeering with grad programs list). Vs. VT (16).[/b]  No love for GT (4th, tie), or UT Austin (11), Northwestern (13).  Lots of TJ love for MIT, Stanford, Cal Tec, Berkeley, (1-4) Also, lots of love UCIC and Michigan (tie 6th), CMU, Cornell and Purdue (8-10).

Also weird, because:

UM. 132/65/17
UICU. 68/48/11
CMU. 140/36/15
Purdue. 71/6/7
Berkeley. 97/34/11

But GT. 123/46/6. (2016-- more normal year). 111/35/1. (2017)
UT Austin. 28/9/1

And Northwestern.  46/1/0. (Huh???)

Also usually TJ interest in Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman and Olin (1,2,3 in engineering w/o grad school), with a couple kids going to each.

So why it UT Austin or GT?  Kids are admitted from TJ. It's either the south or crappy merit aid, I guess.

And I can't explain Northwestern.  At all. [/quote]

Berkeley is ranked 3rd and Caltech is ranked 4th in engineering.[/quote]

I have no dog in this fight but my kids' TJ friends who graduated in engineering from UVA & VA Tech are all employed - at Microsoft, Google, Space X, Boeing, Palantir. For computer science/engineering I know that the same companies interview at both UVA & Tech. Tech may have an advantage in other types of engineering. I know that many kids at TJ turn down more highly ranked out-of-state schools to go to an in-state school -- they're smart kids and would rather start out with little debt and pay have as much as for what is still an excellent education.

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