Overall vibe is serious if not a bit uptight. Career focused but not much thinking outside the box. Pockets of alternatives and radicals but mostly conformists.

Anonymous wrote:VT and Texas AM very similar.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU has hotter chicks

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Anonymous wrote:^ much better than the Sedoku-style prison food my kids got at UVA and GMU

** Sodexo

Add W&M food to that list.

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Are you aware of the food improvements made in 2023, including scratch meals? But, yes, W&M uses Aramark as GMU and UVA use Sodexo because it’s affordable . If you want better go private and pay private rates.

There are other publics with excellent food, to include JMU and - the topic of this thread - VT. Let's stay on topic.

Anonymous wrote:My son loves VT. He didn’t expect to. He is a freshman.

He is very happy. Like his professors. Likes his advisors. Like most of his classes. Made dean list.

Like everyone on his floor. Participates in club sports. Always busy.

Nothing is perfect. But he is happy and that makes me happy.

We are OOS.

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Anonymous wrote:^ much better than the Sedoku-style prison food my kids got at UVA and GMU

** Sodexo

Add W&M food to that list.

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Are you aware of the food improvements made in 2023, including scratch meals? But, yes, W&M uses Aramark as GMU and UVA use Sodexo because it’s affordable . If you want better go private and pay private rates.

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Anonymous wrote:If you have first hand experience or heard directly from your kid/someone you know: how much of a role do the Cadets play in the vibe on campus? Are they always in uniform? They do take classes as the other students.

Many schools have ROTC cadets on campus. VT simply has more of them, considered a "Corps." That said, there are only about 1,000 of them in a school of about 30k, so it's a small presence. They take classes along with everyone else and are generally in uniform. My daughter dated a cadet for a semester.

Even with *just* 1000 out of 30k, you see more of them around than at other schools

And? Does this bother you somehow? They're a part of the campus community.

Yeah. There’s even ROTC at USC, HArvard and UVA! And many other places. Shocking! It’s the only way some students would ever be able to afford college.

but presence at VT is bigger than anywhere else we saw. ROTC at other schools are not in uniform all the time. i know cuz i dated one. only was in uniform when they did their rotc drills which i think was once a week as i recall.

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Anonymous wrote:If you have first hand experience or heard directly from your kid/someone you know: how much of a role do the Cadets play in the vibe on campus? Are they always in uniform? They do take classes as the other students.

Many schools have ROTC cadets on campus. VT simply has more of them, considered a "Corps." That said, there are only about 1,000 of them in a school of about 30k, so it's a small presence. They take classes along with everyone else and are generally in uniform. My daughter dated a cadet for a semester.

Even with *just* 1000 out of 30k, you see more of them around than at other schools

And? Does this bother you somehow? They're a part of the campus community.

Yeah. There’s even ROTC at USC, HArvard and UVA! And many other places. Shocking! It’s the only way some students would ever be able to afford college.