<p>Many thanks for all the replies. Would positions remain the same if student was undecided on major? In reality, many will change their majors at some point, even going in a completely different career direction. What are the prospects for those that don’t get accepted to the business school?</p>
<p>Regarding this comment: The top 5 schools named in that ranking are large, not-at-all-selective, state universities. </p>
<p>It’s not fair to say they are not-at-all-selective. Illinois, for example, has a top-five Engineering program and the selectivity varies considerably by area. The middle 50% for Engineering is ACT 30-33 and SAT 1920-2160. That’s pretty selective. In my experience, easterners often misjudge the strength of the strong programs at the flagship state universities. </p>
<p>Yeah, I realize this is a bit off-topic.</p>
<p>^ OK - so what percent of students at Illinois are engineers?</p>
<p>Overall the Illinois is not selective, at least compared to the very top schools.</p>
<p>Just putting in my .02 here, but I think that you have to look at Undergrad and Grad separately. If she just wants Undergrad, then I would take out loans and pay for UVA because most (keyword), high-paying recruiters will choose a UVA candidate over an UF candidate. </p>
<p>If she really wants a Grad degree (which needs to be thought about long and hard), she needs to face reality. I know how financially difficult it can be to pay for college, so if she really want’s to go to UVA, tell her to apply for scholarships and attend UF for at least a few years.</p>
<p>2smile, I don’t know if you saw the earlier post by mechwahoo regarding the increase in tuition for next year, but this article was in our paper this am. </p>
<p>[W&M</a>, U.Va. increase tuition | Richmond Times-Dispatch](<a href=“http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/apr/16/TDMET04-wampm-uva-increase-tuition-ar-976097/]W&M”>http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/apr/16/TDMET04-wampm-uva-increase-tuition-ar-976097/)</p>
<p>Sadly, I don’t know when the yearly increases are going to stop, but based on the past few years you can count on paying around $2500+/- more per year for T/R+B as an out of stater. </p>
<p>I am decidedly biased toward our great Va schools, but in this case I vote UF. It just makes more sense to me.</p>
<p>“Facing what the College of William and Mary’s president calls a financial cliff, two more of the state’s colleges have increased tuition and fees for the next academic year.”</p>
<p>Pretty heavy stuff! Are we going to be in as bad a situation as the California schools?</p>
<p>i feel for you!
finance play a big part in this decision
although I am all for UVA ( my kid will be going there) , in this case,
i may vote for UF
the OOS cost is a debt that must be taken into consideration
UF is a good school & i believe your D will be wonderful there</p>
<p>When I was at UVA I had several incredibly smart friends who were Echols scholars and had great GPAs and they did not get into UVA med school. The conventional wisdom was that UVA Med School is harder to get into if you’re currently undergrad there.</p>
<p>My suggestion is for your daughter to go to UF undergrad, knock herself out getting great grades (as she’s clearly capable of) and saving money then go to UVA med school. Then she’ll have the best of both worlds. Good luck.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any public university that is not seeing a decrease in state funding and continual increases in tuition.</p>