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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than both  beginning with a B and sometimes have good basketball teams, I'm not sure how much they have in common.   But definitely my son's top two choices right going into hs senior year.  I personally lean towards Villanova,  as I spent most of my career until recently in Boston and NY (UVA was invisible there; I just assumed it was a southerners school until moving to DC two years ago).  But UVA seems like a better choice if he and we stay local in DMV. In DC, so will be oos, so not much difference in cost.   Naviance looks pretty good for both.  Very outgoing child,  on debate team,  likely some kind of major that leads to teaching or law, likely will be captain of a team for upcoming year.
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This is pretty funny.  UVA has been in the top 25 schools in the US News and World Report since the report began back in the 1980s.  I'm from NYC and UVA has long been well regarded. Villanova is not the same league.  Villanova's a solid, respectable school, but not the same. [/quote]

You are so quick to dismiss.  College Scorecard has median earning for Villanova at $96,129 vs $80,584 for UVA.  So there is that.[/quote]
That has a lot to do with industries served and location.[b] UVA has a school of education, an industry notorious for lower pay. Villanova doesn't.[/b] I imagine Villanova grads are mostly found in the northern cities where there's a HCOL (Phili, NYC, Boston).

The people who swear UVA is a regional school will never be convinced otherwise. Why bother even engaging in that conversation? [/quote]

UVA School of Education is largely for graduate education.  Villanova does have a department of education.  In reality, for undergraduates, only 0.7% of UVA graduates and 0.3% of Villanova graduates are majoring in education per the CDS.  That is not responsible for the difference.   Engineering is often responsible for differences between schools, but they have about the same percentage there, so that is not responsible as well.  Regarding cost of living, Philadelphia is significantly less expensive than Washington D.C. and about the same as Richmond.

Why can't you just give some credit to Villanova?

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