<p>Thank you for taking the time to read my dilemma.</p>
<p>I was accepted into the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, both of which are excellent schools I was gratefully admitted to.</p>
<p>I was invited into the W&M James Monroe Scholar program, but was not chosen to be in UVA's Echols program. My friends and counselors thought it very odd that I wasn't accepted as a Rodman Scholar, for I was waitlisted by Penn and Princeton, too.</p>
<p>I'm majoring in biology, planning to attend medical school and be a neurologist (I know. This sounds so ambitious :)) )</p>
<p>I ask if you could reply with a little pro/con list for each school, just for comparison? </p>
<p>I am a parent of a senior high school student. Both are great schools. It really depends on what type of environment you like. W&M is a smaller school than UVA. If you are in state both are good deals. Both have strong premed programs. At W&M you will have smaller class sizes. </p>
<p>Did you contact them? I know students who got rejected from one and accepted at the other. You have two good choices. Try contacting the premed advisors at each school to get a feel for each program. W&M has a neuroscience degree that you could do as premed.</p>
<p>@raclut I did, and their decision was final. The dean said that selecting honors students tend to be subjective, so he said he is unsure of the exact reason why I was not placed it…in other words, the decisions are very in-the-moment ones.</p>
<p>If you got into both schools you are a strong student. You will be successful attending either one. It comes down to personal preference. There are a lot of very strong students at UVA that don’t get honors and they are still successful.</p>