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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crickets. Where are the UVA boosters?  Congrats to Michigan pushing UVA out. [/quote]

UVA and W&M really dropped. Big change in just one year. [/quote]

UVA’s is not what one hopes for, but no big deal.  [b]W&M’s, however, is a  BIG problem.[/b]  [/quote]

W&M is always a "weird" school for rankings because it's grouped with national universities because it is public and has a handful of grad programs, but its aims are more like a SLAC with its focus on undergraduate teaching/research.  But as a public institution it doesn't have the flexibility/resources of equivalent private SLACs (e.g., it has to take 2/3 in-state, it can't raise tuition without state approval, it can't make financial changes/adaptations without state approval).  Whenever the formulas of rankings change, W&M is a bit more susceptible due to its "weirdness."  I think dropping selectivity as a metric, and lessening the relative importance of SAT scores in overall formula is what hurt W&M's ranking here.[/quote]

[b]The Pell grant stuff too.[/b][/quote]

Yes--I forgot about that too.  [/quote]

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