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[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]'

Well, W&M doesn't have a medical school.  That really hurts on the "resources" assessment, even thought it may be more or less irrelevant to undergraduate education.   Most of the top ranked schools have medical schools and the ones that don't (e.g. Princeton) tend to be super rich.   Wake is perhaps the school most similar to W&M but it still has a medical school.  I wonder how much that contributes to the difference in ranking because I think in areas like selectivity and reputation, W&M has been at least on the same level. [/quote]

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