Anonymous wrote:FCPS students can always get in to a higher-ranked college out-of-state UVA/William&Mary = competitive for Ivy's, JMU/VT = competitive other elites. Even on the other end, Nova CC = competitive for most other state U's. There may be financial reasons to send your FCPS to a Va college, and some choices may be the best fit. Too often, however, the FCPS student w/multiple APs but middle-of-the-pack GPA ends up at a less-than-stellar instate school far below their ability. They are resentful, as they should be.

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Anonymous wrote:What about SMU?

Apparently not brand name enough. What is it?

Guess you don't get out much.

Southern Methodist University? Did I get it? In case I got it, I want to add that I'm a foreigner and I got it!

Google is your friend.

How easy is SMU to get into?

Hei, don't insult a foreigner.I had a few countrymen going there.They always called it SMU.

SMU has a lot going for it, but diversity is not a strong suit.

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Anonymous wrote:U Chicago

Seriously? What IS that?

There's the University of Chicago which is selective and very challenging.

And there's the University of Illinois-Chicago which is kind of a crappy school.

PP, the University of Chicago is spectacular on a million different levels. But it's always been disproportionally easy to get in. That may be because it's known to be a "harder" school, and also because it's on a trimester system, so effectively there's a great deal more work than there is at comparably-ranked major research universities. If you add the course-count for Chicago's Common Core courses to required basic foreign language proficiency and the courses required for a declared major, something like 2/3 of the courses are required, so there's little opportunity to mess around looking for easy electives. So Chicago exhibits a greater element of self-selection among applicants than HYP, for example. That said, the acceptance % has dropped every year for the past several. Is Chicago "easy" to get in to? No, never. But it's a bit easier than a few comparables.

Actually, the acceptance rate at Chicago this year was about 9 %, so it's easier to get into than Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT and Stanford.

Yes, at 9% acceptance rate, it's a veritable safety school.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing second tier about Rice, Vandy or Emory. I'd say Wisconsin, BU, Northeastern, Penn State, Villanova, Drexel, UConn, UNH, UVM, Elon, Case Western, . In terms of LACs - Union, Franklin and Marshall, Dickinson, Gettysburg, Hobart, Rhodes, Knox, Lewis and Clark, Ursinus, Skidmore,Wofford, DePaul, DePauw, Ohio Wesleyan, Denison, College of Wooster, Earlham.

These are all very good schools just not first tier.

I'd add University of Illinois and New College of Florida.

WTF?? These are not brand name colleges! You people need to think about the schools Wal-Mart Nation knows. Believe me, I went to a national university that the folks in my small town SWORE was in California "because it was on TV." Needless to say, it was not in California. Not even close.

I'm not concerned about Wal-Mart nation. I'm concerned about solid schools that will get my kids into good graduate or professional programs.

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Anonymous wrote:East Carolina University, aka EZU

I'd hardly call ECU a 'brand name' university.

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Anonymous wrote:What about SMU?

Apparently not brand name enough. What is it?

Guess you don't get out much.

Southern Methodist University? Did I get it? In case I got it, I want to add that I'm a foreigner and I got it!

Google is your friend.

How easy is SMU to get into?

Hei, don't insult a foreigner.I had a few countrymen going there.They always called it SMU.

Anonymous wrote:East Carolina University, aka EZU

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Anonymous wrote:What about SMU?

Apparently not brand name enough. What is it?

Guess you don't get out much.

Southern Methodist University? Did I get it? In case I got it, I want to add that I'm a foreigner and I got it!

Google is your friend.

How easy is SMU to get into?

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Anonymous wrote:What about SMU?

Apparently not brand name enough. What is it?

Guess you don't get out much.

Southern Methodist University? Did I get it? In case I got it, I want to add that I'm a foreigner and I got it!

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Anonymous wrote:What about SMU?

Apparently not brand name enough. What is it?

Guess you don't get out much.

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Anonymous wrote:U Chicago

Seriously? What IS that?

There's the University of Chicago which is selective and very challenging.

And there's the University of Illinois-Chicago which is kind of a crappy school.

PP, the University of Chicago is spectacular on a million different levels. But it's always been disproportionally easy to get in. That may be because it's known to be a "harder" school, and also because it's on a trimester system, so effectively there's a great deal more work than there is at comparably-ranked major research universities. If you add the course-count for Chicago's Common Core courses to required basic foreign language proficiency and the courses required for a declared major, something like 2/3 of the courses are required, so there's little opportunity to mess around looking for easy electives. So Chicago exhibits a greater element of self-selection among applicants than HYP, for example. That said, the acceptance % has dropped every year for the past several. Is Chicago "easy" to get in to? No, never. But it's a bit easier than a few comparables.

Actually, the acceptance rate at Chicago this year was about 9 %, so it's easier to get into than Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT and Stanford.