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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would put W&M and UVA as tied for first place. They are really both top tier schools. [/quote]

No way.  [/quote]

You are correct.  W&M should be ahead.[/quote]

NO. An applicant needs higher gpa and ACT for UVA[/quote]

If higher stats make a better school, [b]Northeastern has both UVA and W&M beat[/b].  I don't buy that, by the way.

Both UVA and W&M are majority SAT schools.  Not ACT.  W&M is 10 points higher at the 75th percentile and 40 points lower at the 25th percentile compared to UVA overall (and note that UVA Engineering has higher scores than UVA Arts & Sciences, which is W&M's equivalent from an academic standpoint).   This isn't a big difference, and again, I don't think that is what determines the relative quality of the school.

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Not true.  Provide cites[/quote]

Northeastern SAT composite is for 2021-2022 is 1530-1440 from the Common Data Set.  UVA is 1510-1400.  W&M is 1520-1360.  https://provost.northeastern.edu/uds/facts/common-data-set/

As I indicated above, I don't really believe 1) that Northeastern's standardized scores are as representative of the student body as UVA and W&M and 2) that the higher SAT scores are actually indicative that Northeastern is a better school.  It was just given an example of where you can get to if you are only looking narrowly at stats without any context.  Now that they are test-optional, Northeastern has a relatively low percentage of students submitting scores (28% SAT, 14% ACT).  This means the scores are really representative only of their top 30% or so of students.  [/quote]

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