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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both schools are more competitive than they were when the parents of today's HS students were applying. Hence a lot of the dated impressions in this thread, I think.[/quote]

PP - yes but VT has certainly moved into a different status re: reputation and competitiveness for entry.  I'm asking why has VT pulled so far away from its former peers, esp JMU.  [/quote]

Thirty years ago, the State of Virginia was not that developed. VT was a cow college. GMU was a commuter school with bunch of foreign stduents and no school spirit (I am a foreigner myself).

Then the IT industry in Northern Virigina started to boom. The state’s most technology oriented college, Virginia Tech, benefitted the most. GMU got a boost thanks to its location. UVa at least has a decent engineering school. But WM and JMU didn’t and don’t have an engineering school and didn’t get much boost.

Then there was some strange pecking order effect. VT became popular even for business and non STEM major.  As JMU falling out, more kids who would have appled for JMU 30 years ago now apply to VT instead. [/quote]

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