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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This this PP.

Sorry for the long post.

I would also mention that VT because of its size seemed to have a lot more visiting professors and TA sections that taught big lecture hall classes vs. the tenured faculty that VT is known for.

Also, that whose smaller size thing doesn't really apply to CS. Both programs are huge, maybe too big, about 1,000 students for each. Then UVA has like another 1,000 in CS for Liberal Arts and Sciences.

And about the UVA being more business or management oriented. I was talking about the future. She got the gist that there were more UVA engineering students had aspirations to switch over to business or management roles vs. stay in more technical roles.

I am sure there plenty at VT that are like that too, but it seemed more pronounced at UVA. Less really nerdy techie kids. [/quote]

I've really got to question how on earth you made the assumptions you did about the students at VT if your daughter didn't even wind up going there.  Seems like you've assumed a great deal about the student body and done a lot of filling in the blanks using your imagination.  For instance, TAs teaching lectures classes?  My VT student hasn't had that experience at all and has developed close relationships with several of her professors.  And how would you know about the "quality" of students, varied interests, networking, competitiveness, CC transfers, types of high schools students came from, etc. etc.??  Or whether the students had taken Calc in HS?

In short, your post(s) seem like very, very transparent trolling.  If your daughter chose UVA, then neither of you have any clue what VT is like, other than what you may have seen on a tour.  [/quote]

Not a troll. Not from my imagination. I don't really know if any of that is true or exaggerated. I never even thought about CC transfers before until I heard that line from her. I attended the Engineering Open House with her and it left me with a very positive perception at VT, especially that mining professor that runs the student programs at VT. She was incredible. Almost everything in that post is from current students at VT that are friends with my DD, often when she visited there and crashed at their dorms or apartments for footballs games or to hang out and chatted with them and their roommates.

She heard a lot more griping than students would say to their parents or tour groups. They were generally very positive and loved VT, but they all had gripes. She's heard worse about UVA and schools like Pitt and Penn State in all different ways.

Like I said before, she liked VT, almost picked it, especially since she had a big friend group there, but it was close and the big school issues played a big part of tipping the decision to UVA, which had its own flaws. The girls that she knows at VT generally really like it, and that is not the case with UVA but is more about the social aspect of it. [/quote]

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