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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:We tried hard to get our kids to consider W&M but they were put off by the small-town location. In any event, a sample of unknown size, suggests that when students are admitted to both W&M and VT it is pretty much a toss-up which one they go to. At least there is no significant difference, unlike the case for, say, UVA (no, I did not attend UVA). See

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=College+of+William+and+Mary&with=Virginia+Tech

A friend's daughter who was admitted to all three of the schools mentioned opted to attend W&M for STEM (not engineering, obviously).

What may be more meaningful to know is what choices are made outside of engineering. William and Mary doesn't have engineering, so students choosing VT would be choosing a different course of study.

Fair enough. But one has to wonder why a student seriously interested in engineering would apply to W&M in the first place. Few students are interested in the combined engineering degree program on offer at W&M and elsewhere. It might be fair to assume that students who applied to both W&M and VT were predominantly non-engineering types.

Why wouldn't they? Unless their stats are good enough that VT Engineering is a guaranteed safety, there's no reason that students wouldn't apply to W&M considering the minimal monetary and time costs.

My thinking was that students who are interested in engineering would only apply to VT with few exceptions. (W&M does not offer engineering except through a combined degree program; very few students opt for this.) Those interested in fields other than engineering are those who would likely apply to both W&M and VT. Hence, my conjecture was that the Parchment results largely reflect choices made by students who are not interested in engineering. This thinking is influenced by watching one engineering-oriented son make decisions on where to apply to. In the end, he applied only to schools that offered engineering even though he was initially attracted to some schools that didn't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We tried hard to get our kids to consider W&M but they were put off by the small-town location. In any event, a sample of unknown size, suggests that when students are admitted to both W&M and VT it is pretty much a toss-up which one they go to. At least there is no significant difference, unlike the case for, say, UVA (no, I did not attend UVA). See

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=College+of+William+and+Mary&with=Virginia+Tech

A friend's daughter who was admitted to all three of the schools mentioned opted to attend W&M for STEM (not engineering, obviously).

What may be more meaningful to know is what choices are made outside of engineering. William and Mary doesn't have engineering, so students choosing VT would be choosing a different course of study.

Fair enough. But one has to wonder why a student seriously interested in engineering would apply to W&M in the first place. Few students are interested in the combined engineering degree program on offer at W&M and elsewhere. It might be fair to assume that students who applied to both W&M and VT were predominantly non-engineering types.

Why wouldn't they? Unless their stats are good enough that VT Engineering is a guaranteed safety, there's no reason that students wouldn't apply to W&M considering the minimal monetary and time costs.

Anonymous wrote:What are you people smoking? W&M is to Va Tech as Yacht is to Canoe.

You are trying to stir the pot. I graduated from William & Mary and I would never say anything like that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We tried hard to get our kids to consider W&M but they were put off by the small-town location. In any event, a sample of unknown size, suggests that when students are admitted to both W&M and VT it is pretty much a toss-up which one they go to. At least there is no significant difference, unlike the case for, say, UVA (no, I did not attend UVA). See

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=College+of+William+and+Mary&with=Virginia+Tech

A friend's daughter who was admitted to all three of the schools mentioned opted to attend W&M for STEM (not engineering, obviously).

What may be more meaningful to know is what choices are made outside of engineering. William and Mary doesn't have engineering, so students choosing VT would be choosing a different course of study.

Fair enough. But one has to wonder why a student seriously interested in engineering would apply to W&M in the first place. Few students are interested in the combined engineering degree program on offer at W&M and elsewhere. It might be fair to assume that students who applied to both W&M and VT were predominantly non-engineering types.

I did that. I wasn't sure which way I wanted to go.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We tried hard to get our kids to consider W&M but they were put off by the small-town location. In any event, a sample of unknown size, suggests that when students are admitted to both W&M and VT it is pretty much a toss-up which one they go to. At least there is no significant difference, unlike the case for, say, UVA (no, I did not attend UVA). See

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=College+of+William+and+Mary&with=Virginia+Tech

A friend's daughter who was admitted to all three of the schools mentioned opted to attend W&M for STEM (not engineering, obviously).

What may be more meaningful to know is what choices are made outside of engineering. William and Mary doesn't have engineering, so students choosing VT would be choosing a different course of study.

Fair enough. But one has to wonder why a student seriously interested in engineering would apply to W&M in the first place. Few students are interested in the combined engineering degree program on offer at W&M and elsewhere. It might be fair to assume that students who applied to both W&M and VT were predominantly non-engineering types.

W&M is a school about 200 years past its prime. It's a fantastic public school option for Virginians, but... C'mon. It's not even the best public school in the state. I don't understand the people trying to pass it off as some prestigious, "highly coveted" school.

Anonymous wrote:We tried hard to get our kids to consider W&M but they were put off by the small-town location. In any event, a sample of unknown size, suggests that when students are admitted to both W&M and VT it is pretty much a toss-up which one they go to. At least there is no significant difference, unlike the case for, say, UVA (no, I did not attend UVA). See

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=College+of+William+and+Mary&with=Virginia+Tech

A friend's daughter who was admitted to all three of the schools mentioned opted to attend W&M for STEM (not engineering, obviously).

What may be more meaningful to know is what choices are made outside of engineering. William and Mary doesn't have engineering, so students choosing VT would be choosing a different course of study.

We tried hard to get our kids to consider W&M but they were put off by the small-town location. In any event, a sample of unknown size, suggests that when students are admitted to both W&M and VT it is pretty much a toss-up which one they go to. At least there is no significant difference, unlike the case for, say, UVA (no, I did not attend UVA). See

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=College+of+William+and+Mary&with=Virginia+Tech

A friend's daughter who was admitted to all three of the schools mentioned opted to attend W&M for STEM (not engineering, obviously).

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary has a much nicer campus than I expected. Didn’t know Jen Psaki went there, but I’ll throw in Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis.

The campus is one of the 50 best. Not sure the two people you listed advance the ball.

Exactly this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary has a much nicer campus than I expected. Didn’t know Jen Psaki went there, but I’ll throw in Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis.

Jacob Frey went there? Nice! Definitely wouldn't kick him out of bed!

+1

Gross.

What are you people smoking? W&M is to Va Tech as Yacht is to Canoe.

Anonymous wrote:I’m from the northeast and in my nerd circle of peers W&M was fairly well known. A few people attended. VT was more obscure but one random semi-nerd (not great grades) went there.

This. William and Mary is pretty highly coveted in NYC society circles as a step below Ivy (in line with Oberlin, Williams, Haverford etc).

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary has a much nicer campus than I expected. Didn’t know Jen Psaki went there, but I’ll throw in Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis.

Jacob Frey went there? Nice! Definitely wouldn't kick him out of bed!

I heard that he goes to the same chiropractor as Bo Derek’s cousin!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary has a much nicer campus than I expected. Didn’t know Jen Psaki went there, but I’ll throw in Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis.

Jacob Frey went there? Nice! Definitely wouldn't kick him out of bed!

+1

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary has a much nicer campus than I expected. Didn’t know Jen Psaki went there, but I’ll throw in Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis.

Jacob Frey went there? Nice! Definitely wouldn't kick him out of bed!