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Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna admitted 8.9 percent of applicants to the Class of 2022. They had about 7,000 applications..

Washington and Lee admitted 21% of 5,855 students. https://columns.wlu.edu/485-students-join-the-wl-class-of-2022/. The Claremont Colleges are more selectiive.

CMC inflated SAT scores for years.

Huh? CMC's selectivity is under 10%. Pomona's dropped to 6.9% this year. https://www.pomona.edu/news/2018/03/16-introducing-pomona-college-class-2022.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2013/07/24/why-forbes-removed-4-schools-from-its-americas-best-colleges-rankings/#7e58ecdb3521

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Anonymous wrote:Employers? No chance. Many confederate flags in and around C’ville. Are UVA grads struggling with the association? Same for many southern schools. Part of a weird problem but hardly unique to Lexington. Lexington is a very cute little town, ignorant yahoos aside, and immediately adjacent to the campus.

Not at all. I know both W&L and UVA. W&L has Lee's horse, for heaven's sake! It truly is Southern, as are its sororities and frats. I do not understand its attraction. UVA on the other hand attracts students from all over the world. Confederate flags would never be tolerated. The University is cosmopolitan and international. You can't even begin to equate the two.

Lol....you're delusional. With 70% of students coming from VA it is very hard to be cosmopolitan and international.

No, you are. By your logic then, with 80% of Berkeley's students coming from California there would be a lack of cosmopolitan feeling? Have you ever been to Charlottesville? Or walked the grounds? 67% are Virginians but that includes a class with 35% minority and 10% first generation students. It also includes a new push for low-income students so you have Virginians from all walks of life and all sorts of backgrounds, including the Virginians who went to private boarding schools. Then there are the Jefferson Scholars. Also students from all 50 states and faculty, staff and students from 183 countries. In addition to the undergrads, there are 7,705 graduate students from all over the country and world in the law school, med school, business school, etc.

I don't think you understand what cosmopolitan actually means. And when only 5% of students come from outside of the US it's laughable to call it international.

Read and learn. http://www.virginia.edu/uvaglobal/facts.html

lol.....you’re obviously some imbecile UVA booster. In what world would any sane person consider a university cosmopolitan and international with a student body that is 70% in-state? UVA is a fine state school and nothing more.

Try Again. From Ivy Coach:

"But unlike in Jefferson’s time, applicants don’t hail from 13 colonies. They hail from all 50 states and from 147 nations around our world." "Accepted students had a mean SAT score of 1,431, with 93 percent ranking in the top 10 percent of their graduating high school class. The Class of 2022 speaks to the University’s commitment to making an affordable, world-class education available to high-achieving students from all walks of life. Ten percent of all newly admitted students are first-generation college students and 35 percent come from minority backgrounds. The enrollment target for the class is 3,725 students, with 67 percent coming from Virginia. All students offered admission have until May 1 to accept their offers.”

Congratulations to all students who have earned admission to the UVA Class of 2022. You’ve earned admission to one of the finest public universities in the world!" https://www.ivycoach.com/the-ivy-coach-blog/college-admissions/university-of-virginia-class-of-2022/

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Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna admitted 8.9 percent of applicants to the Class of 2022. They had about 7,000 applications..

Washington and Lee admitted 21% of 5,855 students. https://columns.wlu.edu/485-students-join-the-wl-class-of-2022/. The Claremont Colleges are more selectiive.

CMC inflated SAT scores for years.

Huh? CMC's selectivity is under 10%. Pomona's dropped to 6.9% this year. https://www.pomona.edu/news/2018/03/16-introducing-pomona-college-class-2022.

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Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna admitted 8.9 percent of applicants to the Class of 2022. They had about 7,000 applications..

Washington and Lee admitted 21% of 5,855 students. https://columns.wlu.edu/485-students-join-the-wl-class-of-2022/. The Claremont Colleges are more selectiive.

CMC inflated SAT scores for years.

OP is asking about prestigious, while posters are answering about diversity. DCUM in a nutshell.

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Anonymous wrote:Employers? No chance. Many confederate flags in and around C’ville. Are UVA grads struggling with the association? Same for many southern schools. Part of a weird problem but hardly unique to Lexington. Lexington is a very cute little town, ignorant yahoos aside, and immediately adjacent to the campus.

Not at all. I know both W&L and UVA. W&L has Lee's horse, for heaven's sake! It truly is Southern, as are its sororities and frats. I do not understand its attraction. UVA on the other hand attracts students from all over the world. Confederate flags would never be tolerated. The University is cosmopolitan and international. You can't even begin to equate the two.

Lol....you're delusional. With 70% of students coming from VA it is very hard to be cosmopolitan and international.

No, you are. By your logic then, with 80% of Berkeley's students coming from California there would be a lack of cosmopolitan feeling? Have you ever been to Charlottesville? Or walked the grounds? 67% are Virginians but that includes a class with 35% minority and 10% first generation students. It also includes a new push for low-income students so you have Virginians from all walks of life and all sorts of backgrounds, including the Virginians who went to private boarding schools. Then there are the Jefferson Scholars. Also students from all 50 states and faculty, staff and students from 183 countries. In addition to the undergrads, there are 7,705 graduate students from all over the country and world in the law school, med school, business school, etc.

I don't think you understand what cosmopolitan actually means. And when only 5% of students come from outside of the US it's laughable to call it international.

Read and learn. http://www.virginia.edu/uvaglobal/facts.html

lol.....you’re obviously some imbecile UVA booster. In what world would any sane person consider a university cosmopolitan and international with a student body that is 70% in-state? UVA is a fine state school and nothing more.

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna admitted 8.9 percent of applicants to the Class of 2022. They had about 7,000 applications..

Washington and Lee admitted 21% of 5,855 students. https://columns.wlu.edu/485-students-join-the-wl-class-of-2022/. The Claremont Colleges are more selectiive.

Here are the true pathetic statistics for W&L's incoming class of 2022: Only 24 international students from only 17 countries in the entire class. Only 28 ("doubled from 14!") African American students in the entire class. https://columns.wlu.edu/485-students-join-the-wl-class-of-2022/

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Anonymous wrote:Employers? No chance. Many confederate flags in and around C’ville. Are UVA grads struggling with the association? Same for many southern schools. Part of a weird problem but hardly unique to Lexington. Lexington is a very cute little town, ignorant yahoos aside, and immediately adjacent to the campus.

Not at all. I know both W&L and UVA. W&L has Lee's horse, for heaven's sake! It truly is Southern, as are its sororities and frats. I do not understand its attraction. UVA on the other hand attracts students from all over the world. Confederate flags would never be tolerated. The University is cosmopolitan and international. You can't even begin to equate the two.

Lol....you're delusional. With 70% of students coming from VA it is very hard to be cosmopolitan and international.

No, you are. By your logic then, with 80% of Berkeley's students coming from California there would be a lack of cosmopolitan feeling? Have you ever been to Charlottesville? Or walked the grounds? 67% are Virginians but that includes a class with 35% minority and 10% first generation students. It also includes a new push for low-income students so you have Virginians from all walks of life and all sorts of backgrounds, including the Virginians who went to private boarding schools. Then there are the Jefferson Scholars. Also students from all 50 states and faculty, staff and students from 183 countries. In addition to the undergrads, there are 7,705 graduate students from all over the country and world in the law school, med school, business school, etc.

I don't think you understand what cosmopolitan actually means. And when only 5% of students come from outside of the US it's laughable to call it international.

Read and learn. http://www.virginia.edu/uvaglobal/facts.html

BTW, W&Lee has only 3.0% international students from only 50 countries. And only 2.0% black. Go compare that with UVA's statistics. https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1580

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Anonymous wrote:Employers? No chance. Many confederate flags in and around C’ville. Are UVA grads struggling with the association? Same for many southern schools. Part of a weird problem but hardly unique to Lexington. Lexington is a very cute little town, ignorant yahoos aside, and immediately adjacent to the campus.

Not at all. I know both W&L and UVA. W&L has Lee's horse, for heaven's sake! It truly is Southern, as are its sororities and frats. I do not understand its attraction. UVA on the other hand attracts students from all over the world. Confederate flags would never be tolerated. The University is cosmopolitan and international. You can't even begin to equate the two.

Lol....you're delusional. With 70% of students coming from VA it is very hard to be cosmopolitan and international.

No, you are. By your logic then, with 80% of Berkeley's students coming from California there would be a lack of cosmopolitan feeling? Have you ever been to Charlottesville? Or walked the grounds? 67% are Virginians but that includes a class with 35% minority and 10% first generation students. It also includes a new push for low-income students so you have Virginians from all walks of life and all sorts of backgrounds, including the Virginians who went to private boarding schools. Then there are the Jefferson Scholars. Also students from all 50 states and faculty, staff and students from 183 countries. In addition to the undergrads, there are 7,705 graduate students from all over the country and world in the law school, med school, business school, etc.

UVA is not particularly diverse. You tout 10% first generation students at UVA. UCLA is over 30%. For income diversity, only about 12% get Pell grants vs 35% at UCLA. Only about 4.2% of the most recent class at UVA are international. That isn't very high at all relatively speaking. VT and W&M are higher as a percentage of undergraduates.

You mention Jefferson Scholars seemingly without realizing that W&L has a similar program in the Johnson Scholarship, which is much more extensive in that it is awarded to about 10% of the entering class vs typically less than 1% for UVA Jefferson. How does W&L manage to do this? Little rinky-dink W&L has about a $1.6B endowment for 2,160 students, which is about $737K per student UVA would need an $18B endowment to match that, but this wouldn't account for the fact that W&L's endowment, unlike UVA's doesn't have to be shared with any graduate program other than law or a medical center or for athletic scholarships.

So anyway, I digress. I just think you should be more careful before you slag schools, particularly one as good as W&L. The world is a better place with a diversity of choices.

86% of the student body at W&L participates in Greek life. It is the only college I know of that actually posts the COSTS of Greek life along with its regular fees on its officiial page because it is ASSUMED that most students would participate. This "have and have not" separation creates a real gap between the scholarship low-income and minority students and the others because the former cannot afford to pay thousands a year to participate in a frat. or a sorority. I know. I taught there. Look at the three *** right here. https://www.wlu.edu/admissions/scholarships-and-aid/cost-of-attendance. LOOK at those costs riight on on the W&L website. THAT'S how much the Greek system affects Greek life. Then there is the problem of attracting minority students because of this division between the wealthy white legacies and other wealthy students and the scholarship students. Then there's the problem of the lack of quality housing in town. Remember the parties where the floors fell out or porches gave way? Or how about the eleven greek kids who drove out to a party house further out and got drunk and packed the eleven kids back into the car, had an accident, and a woman went through the windshield, died, and the young man who was driving had his life ruined? Drinking at W&L starts Thurs night and runs thru Monday morning. I would never send my child there. I don't understand why some think it is attractive. https://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/drunken-driver-in-crash-that-killed-w-l-classmate-to/article_04e2fbc4-a08c-5b07-a8cc-1776a45d7521.html