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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are any of your kids doing this?  Say, VT Engineering over UVA Engineering?  Are there other cases?[/quote]

Friend's kid did the opposite- ED'd to UVA for engineering and the father is mad! Thinks the kid should've gone for Tech but agreed to the ED thinking he'd never get in. Whoops. [/quote]

I was the opposite.

My kid wanted to do engineering but I wasn't so sure it would be a satisfying career for him considering his other interests.  So I encouraged him to go to UVA because there are so many opportunities outside of engineering at UVA [b]and far fewer at VT[/b] and the UVA brand name will make up for some of the engineering specific gap.  It looks like he is going to graduate with an engineering degree so I wonder if I encouraged him to hedge his bests for no reason.[/quote]

What?  Where are you getting this?  VT has NINE distinct excellent colleges to choose from and far more majors available than UVA.  You can easily switch out of engineering and choose from among countless other majors at VT.[/quote]

Exactly.  It is amusing when someone says there are "fewer opportunities" at VT than at UVA.  In our experience, it's been quite the opposite.  [/quote]

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