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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a UMC family we can fortunately afford to send our son to whatever college he likes the most, but from a practical standpoint if he was to get an offer from UVA what schools might be worth to pay for over the in-state discount?[/quote]

Based off of US News' Peer Assessment Scores (2022 Edition):

Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Penn, Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Cornell, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, MIT, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Harvey Mudd, & Bowdoin.

Virginia has the same "peer assessment score" (4.3) in US News as Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Claremont McKenna, Carleton College, Middlebury College, & Davidson College.

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Lol what is the value of a “peer assessment” score?[/quote]

Somewhat like a prestige ranking. Prestige is very important to management consulting firms.[/quote]

UVA does extremely well for management consulting recruiting. According to https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/consulting-target-schools, the undergrad schools that send the most kids to top consulting firms are:

1. Harvard (no surprise)
2. UPenn (mostly Wharton)
3. UMich (go Blue!)
4. Yale
5. Stanford
6. Duke
7. Princeton
8. MIT
9. Berkeley
10. Northwestern
11. Columbia
12. UT Austin
[b]13. UVA[/b]
14. Dartmouth
15. Notre Dame
16. Vanderbilt
17. UChicago
18. Brown
19. Georgetown
20. Georgia Tech (honestly a bit surprised by this)[/quote]

Not surprised at all about Georgia Tech. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1085366.page

Schools that [i]don't[/i] go to the "other schools" pile for McKinsey:

Ivy League
Top flagships: Berkeley, Michigan, UVA, UNC, UT-Austin, [b]Georgia Tech[/b]
Limited number of other privates: MIT, Stanford, U Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, WashU, Notre Dame, Emory, Georgetown - that's it, that's all, no more.

If you don't want your DC going to school in flyover country, you can eliminate some of these save for MIT, Stanford, Duke, Georgetown, and Emory. Emory loses cross-admit battles with both UVA and GT by 20% and 22% margins, respectively, according to Parchment. Georgetown's peer reputation score is lower than UVA's, albeit by only 0.1 (UVA tied with Vanderbilt, CMU, GT; Georgetown tied with WashU, Emory, Notre Dame, UNC), and its dorms have a serious black mold problem, so it's probably not worth the 40k premium (soon to be 50k due to tuition hikes). So if we eliminate those two schools, we're back to exactly where we started: Ivies, MIT, Stanford, and Duke. Comes out the same way every time if you're logical about things.[/quote]

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