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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M. I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school. You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition. Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?

I'm curious how you arrived at this conclusion. Do you have a cite? U of R is called only "moderately selective" whereas UVA and W&M are both "highly selective". Schev's report on GPAs has both UVA and W&M way ahead of UOR: weighted gpas at at UVA at the 75th percentile at a 4.51 and 4.53 for W&M. U0R's is only a weighted 3.95. UoR does not attract the same caliber of student as does W&M or UVA

Not the OP but you can simply google this

UVA acceptance rate - 18.7%
W&M acceptance rate - 33.5%
Richmond acceptance rate - 24.4%

not really comparable, closest is between UVA and Richmond

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M. I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school. You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition. Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?

I'm curious how you arrived at this conclusion. Do you have a cite? U of R is called only "moderately selective" whereas UVA and W&M are both "highly selective". Schev's report on GPAs has both UVA and W&M way ahead of UOR: weighted gpas at at UVA at the 75th percentile at a 4.51 and 4.53 for W&M. U0R's is only a weighted 3.95. UoR does not attract the same caliber of student as does W&M or UVA

No.

Anonymous wrote:Considered comparable to the elite new England privates, sp great rep in the northeast, not so much elsewhere. But considering the wasington-Boston corridor isnthe largest employment center in the country, that's probably good enough.

This is so true. I worked at PwC in Chicago in consulting and never heard of schools like Richmond or Davidson outside of college basketball. I had no clue about them academically.

But there were schools in the Midwest that we had good feelings about like St. Olaf, Depauw, Grinnell, etc. that my colleagues had no clue about and lumped them in with schools like Manhattan College or Pace. I had to explain how they were really good, it's just so few of them alums tried to get jobs in places like Philadelphia or NYC.

I applied to Richmond as my top choice from New England... didn't get in. But even back in the late 1980s it was known to be a solid school. Lots of northeastern region kids.

Having lived all over, it is well known in Northeast and MidAtlantic. Nobody has heard of it in the Midwest or West. As long as you want to work on East coast first job you're fine.

Richmond and VCU are not really known of on the west coast.

It’s practically unknown outside East Coast Mid Atlantic Region.

Richmond has gotten a lot more popular, and they have a great business program. Would highly recommend!

None at all. It's a decent college, but it doesn't have a name. Luckily, 90% of good colleges also don't have a national pull, so you will be fine!

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Anonymous wrote:DD, rising junior, is determined to go to a college with an urban campus. I'd love to fine a college that's as safe as an urban campus could be. Any ideas?

Georgetown. Boston university. Tufts sort of. Brown. Georgia tech. Northwestern. U of Minnesota.

American.

But having said that, college do a good job of keeping kids safe, and kids learn to be part of that process. I wouldn't let safety concerns dictate where she goes, at least not to a draconian degree.

Right now DD's thinking Fordham with a hope of transferring to GTown/BC/Villanova after a year. Another mom told me she wouldn't get out of the car when they went to visit Fordham (out of fear for her DD's safety and because she exaggerates).

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Anonymous wrote:DD, rising junior, is determined to go to a college with an urban campus. I'd love to fine a college that's as safe as an urban campus could be. Any ideas?

Georgetown. Boston university. Tufts sort of. Brown. Georgia tech. Northwestern. U of Minnesota.

American.

But having said that, college do a good job of keeping kids safe, and kids learn to be part of that process. I wouldn't let safety concerns dictate where she goes, at least not to a draconian degree.

Anonymous wrote:DD, rising junior, is determined to go to a college with an urban campus. I'd love to fine a college that's as safe as an urban campus could be. Any ideas?

Georgetown. Boston university. Tufts sort of. Brown. Georgia tech. Northwestern. U of Minnesota.

DD, rising junior, is determined to go to a college with an urban campus. I'd love to fine a college that's as safe as an urban campus could be. Any ideas?

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Anonymous wrote:National - probably not. East Coast - yes.

It's strange - VCU is a bit gritty and U. Richmond is almost too country club. Something in between would probably be a bigger attraction to more students.

Have you seen VCU lately? I have not but have heard several times that it's much improved since I don't know when. VCU is also enjoying a surge in applications thanks to Shanka Smart and crew. DS will be checking it out this year. I'd love to hear any recent intel on VCU.

I don't doubt that, and the Fan District to the west of VCU is very pretty. It's just that the immediate area around VCU - in between the Fan and downtown business district - is still somewhat rough.