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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a super social kid who gets really good grades at a really tough HS.  We were *completely* turned off by Chicago and VT at a college fair.  Multiple parents have told me that W&M is challenging in a good way academically, but also challenging socially which would not be a good fit for our kid.  We will still be looking at both VT and W&M because they are state schools, but Chicago is off the list.  [/quote]

DC is currently at Purdue because VT engineering turned him off.  They were still talking’everyone for himself’ and ‘you’re on your own’.  Purdue was talking collaboration and support.  [/quote]

That was probably a wise idea for your child then.  VT does weed out the engineering students in engineering 101.[/quote]

Many schools are obsessed with stamping out plagiarism and "improper assistance." This is conundrum for engineering and computer science students. Effective collaboration is everything in the workplace. You would be expelled from school for doing things that are required in the real world.[/quote]

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