Anonymous wrote:
OP, are you from Virginia? I am from another state and I find that none of the VA state schools are as liberal as the ones from my home state---small town or not. There is just a more "traditional" culture here. But, as another poster stated, you can probably find a range of students at these schools.

Did you ever read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I always wondered why he left UVA to go to Carnegie Mellon. He never stated it, but I surmise that his ideas were too "different" for UVA. He just seems like the kind of professor a school should try to keep. They lost another good professor to a previous attorney general's attempts to get rid of climate science (Ken Cuccinelli). These are the kinds of things that make me wonder about UVA (among others).

http://www.roanoke.com/news/former-uva-climate-scientist-awarded-damages-in-foia-case/article_dbf259e4-dc70-5962-81f3-be4483cbff5f.html

Anonymous wrote:
OP, are you from Virginia? I am from another state and I find that none of the VA state schools are as liberal as the ones from my home state---small town or not. There is just a more "traditional" culture here. But, as another poster stated, you can probably find a range of students at these schools.

Did you ever read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I always wondered why he left UVA to go to Carnegie Mellon. He never stated it, but I surmise that his ideas were too "different" for UVA. He just seems like the kind of professor a school should try to keep. They lost another good professor to a previous attorney general's attempts to get rid of climate science (Ken Cuccinelli). These are the kinds of things that make me wonder about UVA (among others).

http://www.roanoke.com/news/former-uva-climate-scientist-awarded-damages-in-foia-case/article_dbf259e4-dc70-5962-81f3-be4483cbff5f.html

Anonymous wrote:
OP, are you from Virginia? I am from another state and I find that none of the VA state schools are as liberal as the ones from my home state---small town or not. There is just a more "traditional" culture here. But, as another poster stated, you can probably find a range of students at these schools.

Did you ever read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I always wondered why he left UVA to go to Carnegie Mellon. He never stated it, but I surmise that his ideas were too "different" for UVA. He just seems like the kind of professor a school should try to keep. They lost another good professor to a previous attorney general's attempts to get rid of climate science (Ken Cuccinelli). These are the kinds of things that make me wonder about UVA (among others).

http://www.roanoke.com/news/former-uva-climate-scientist-awarded-damages-in-foia-case/article_dbf259e4-dc70-5962-81f3-be4483cbff5f.html

Anonymous wrote:There are so many different groups of people at these schools. Your child will find a place to fit in easily.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
OP, are you from Virginia? I am from another state and I find that none of the VA state schools are as liberal as the ones from my home state---small town or not. There is just a more "traditional" culture here. But, as another poster stated, you can probably find a range of students at these schools.

Did you ever read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I always wondered why he left UVA to go to Carnegie Mellon. He never stated it, but I surmise that his ideas were too "different" for UVA. He just seems like the kind of professor a school should try to keep. They lost another good professor to a previous attorney general's attempts to get rid of climate science (Ken Cuccinelli). These are the kinds of things that make me wonder about UVA (among others).

http://www.roanoke.com/news/former-uva-climate-scientist-awarded-damages-in-foia-case/article_dbf259e4-dc70-5962-81f3-be4483cbff5f.html

I think it's odd that you would judge an entire university by the movement of one professor (the article BTW says he is at Penn). Anyhow, everyone knows that State University Professors are paid less than private. Even tenured professors want to move on if they get a better salary, an endowed chair, promise of better labs, grant money, etc. We toured UVA and DS didn't like the whole Greek thing and the spiel from Admissions that day was very liberal. They do have a Gender and Sexuality studies major.

Anonymous wrote:
OP, are you from Virginia? I am from another state and I find that none of the VA state schools are as liberal as the ones from my home state---small town or not. There is just a more "traditional" culture here. But, as another poster stated, you can probably find a range of students at these schools.

Did you ever read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I always wondered why he left UVA to go to Carnegie Mellon. He never stated it, but I surmise that his ideas were too "different" for UVA. He just seems like the kind of professor a school should try to keep. They lost another good professor to a previous attorney general's attempts to get rid of climate science (Ken Cuccinelli). These are the kinds of things that make me wonder about UVA (among others).

http://www.roanoke.com/news/former-uva-climate-scientist-awarded-damages-in-foia-case/article_dbf259e4-dc70-5962-81f3-be4483cbff5f.html

Anonymous wrote:Back when I was in school (15 years ago) WM was very open and accepting. Much more scholarly, liberal lean and very open to alternative lifestyles. Even within the fraternities.

Lived awhile in Cville while significant other was in grad school, got a very different vibe from that campus. Great school, but not great to be different. JMU seemed a pretty happy place, nice people who were probably too busy partying to care what anyone else was doing. VT is in Appalachia, but it's big enough that kids can find their own.

Anonymous wrote:My DS thought UVa felt too preppy and VT too military with the cadets on campus. He loved W&M. There was a transgender tour guide. That's where he's going. We didn't visit JMU.