<p>Oh brother. Why do students from UVA feel they must come over to the VaTech boards and make these comments? Maybe I’m missing something since I haven’t read the UVA forum in ages, but I don’t feel that VaTech students are ■■■■■■■■ the UVA forum looking for ways to bash UVA. Must there be all this chest-beating and foot stomping and lines drawn in the sand? Sigh. It’s like an elementary school playground. Some of the comments made in retaliation are kind of funny and I admit a chuckle or two myself, but firing back isn’t really helping matters. Can’t you guys just agree that Virginia is incredibly lucky to have two fine schools to serve a variety of interests and just leave it at that? Just because one student chooses one school over the other doesn’t have to mean that that school is universally better than the other to everyone else as well.</p>
<p>Two fine schools: </p>
<p>UVA and William & Mary. </p>
<p>Haha, nah, but seriously, I agree with Zimmer, my little sister is going to Tech in the fall (as in tomorrow) and I used to be kind of upset a few months back that she didn’t get into UVA b/c she’s extremely smart and all, but she didn’t have a problem with it, she’s leaving for Tech tomorrow and she’s really excited. She wants to major in chemistry and she’s going to live in the science dorm.</p>
<p>Well said, Zimmer. Wahoomb, tell your sis good luck. I hope she does extremely well at Tech.</p>
<p>Zimmer, I so agree with what you posted. The first things I thought of when I read the negative posts from some of these UVA kids is why are they so insecure and why does Tech so often bring out the “green eyed monster” in them? </p>
<p>Let’s just have fun with the rivalry. The UVA and VT jokes are hysterical. But bottom line, like Zimmer said, is each school excels in their respective missions. Most importantly, realize that the academic competition going on between the two is going to make each one better!</p>
<p>Finally, wahoomb, I am so happy for your sister! Best of luck to her and I hope she loves VT as much as you did UVA. Down the road my two may end up just like you and your sis. Our youngest is very liberal arts minded (wants to do something in history) and has–egads! --UVA on her short list! :)</p>
<p>William and Mary has about an 82% send off to medical school and UVA has about a 65%. I’m pretty sure VT is lower than UVA at this point.</p>
<p>As in if people wanted to go to medical school, they would surely choose W&M or UVAs percentages over VTs</p>
<p>[Virginia</a> Tech Magazine Feature 4](<a href=“http://www.vtmagazine.vt.edu/spring03/feature4.html]Virginia”>http://www.vtmagazine.vt.edu/spring03/feature4.html)</p>
<p>According to this (very bottom of the page) its around 60%. Not to bad for a school where almost half the students are either engineer majors or business majors (I would imagine those majors have very few students interested in the premed program).</p>
<p>If all three of these figures are correct then what it should tell us is if people who base their decisions off of statistics want to get into medical school they should go to W&M, if unable to then go to either UVA or Va Tech.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for lovers of statistics such as the one posted, they in no way indicate your chance of getting into medical school based on the university you choose for pre-med. The statistics have many variables, including exactly how many students from each of those schools actually applied to med school, how many students were actually declared as a pre-med with that college for at least three years, etc.</p>
<p>History majors have a higher acceptance rate to medical school than biology majors based overall on the percentages. Does this mean if one intends on going to medical school they should major in history just to help their chances?? Of course not.</p>
<p>In this link, from the VT University Honors College, they answer the “What is your acceptance rate for medical school?” on that site. It discusses the fact that when students do not go about the process in the manner they should, obviously their chances drop. </p>
<p>However, if they follow the pre-med guidelines and involve themselves with the university Pre- Med advisory committee, the success rate approaches or exceeds 90% each year. See the question/response at the bottom of the link. I would be curious to know how many do actually apply/are accepted.</p>
<p>[Frequently</a> Asked Questions | University Honors | Virginia Tech](<a href=“http://www.univhonors.vt.edu/html/premed_faq.html#15]Frequently”>http://www.univhonors.vt.edu/html/premed_faq.html#15)</p>
<p>I think we can all agree that it is possible to go to A medical school, it is something else to go to A renowned one. If anything, it’d be interesting to see out of these three schools, how many pre-meds end up at elite med schools.</p>
<p>BTW, I in no way meant to slight any of the other fine schools in Virginia by saying “two fine schools” - at that point in this thread, only VT and UVA had been mentioned. There are a number of great schools in the state; in-state students are so lucky to have so many choices.</p>
<p>I doubt the medical school is going to add too much prestige to Virginia Tech. It’s supposed to only matriculate a class of only 40 I believe. VT does have a plan though over the next few years to continuously expand research expenditures. Dr. Steger seems much more focused on that metric than anything else. This, if anything will expand the prestigiousness of the university. The real keys to VT’s future prestige will be research on critical issues. Hence, ICTAS (and the new ICTAS building on campus), the Bioinformatics Institute, the expansion of the Life Sciences, the doubling in size of the Corporate Research Center over the next decade, and most importantly, the engineering program. The engineering program is going to take a boost from ICTAS, which will provide researchers with state of the art facilities and equipment, as well as the new signature engineering building which hopefully will be equivalent in looks to UMD’s engineering building. Virginia Tech definitely has the potential over the next decade to become the Georgia Tech of the mid-atlantic.</p>
<p>Not true wahoomb…University of Virginia was ranked #11 in colleges and universities that produced the most Peace Corps Volunteers in 2008. Virginia Tech is in the top 25. Here’s the link</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2009.pdf[/url]”>http://www.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2009.pdf</a></p>
<p>Also incorrect about Teach for America - University of Virginia is ranked #17 for large schools, sending 27 to the 2008 Teaching Corps. William and Mary sends more (28) and is ranked #9 for medium schools. Here’s the link:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.teachforamerica.org/newsroom/documents/2008-09TopContributors.pdf[/url]”>http://www.teachforamerica.org/newsroom/documents/2008-09TopContributors.pdf</a></p>
<p>[Peace</a> Corps Rates U.Va. No. 1](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=3762]Peace”>http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=3762)</p>
<p>[U.Va</a>. Contributes 52 Graduates to the 2009 Teach for America Corps](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=9096]U.Va”>http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=9096)</p>
<p>This is where I got my information.</p>
<p>I doubt it will increase prestige much, but wow, I use to look at the U.Va forum a lot. I never saw a Hokie in there once (at least that didn’t transfer =P).</p>