<p>UVa
William & Mary
UNC - Chapel Hill
James Madison University
George Mason University
Virginia Tech
Virginia Commonwealth
Old Dominion University</p>
<p>If you could go to any of these colleges, which one would you pick?</p>
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<li><p>UNC-Chapel Hill-Great school with the perfect D1 sports/college town atmosphere. Well regarded.</p></li>
<li><p>UVA-Great school, well regarded. Just not the same feel to me as UNC would have.</p></li>
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<p>Both very nice schools.</p>
<p>Well, I'm obviously sort of biased since I go to JMU, but I also was accepted to Tech, UNC-CH, and UVA. I can honestly say that I am completely happy, love being at JMU, and have never regretted my choice of turning down those other great schools :)</p>
<p>W&M- history, prestige, most "Ivy" feel of any public school. Perfect mix academics, fun/quirky laid back students, beautiful campus, great location.</p>
<p>UNC/UVA- great combo of sports/parties/academics. Beautiful campuses/towns/weather. Only downside, for some, is 15000-18000 students/research focus.</p>
<p>I go to UNC and love it, but you have some great schools on that list. I can answer any questions that you may have in particular about UNC though, and I'll leave others to help you out with the rest.</p>
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<p>UVa- preppy, some snobs but alot of nice people all around. Alot of brilliant international kids attend here. Great traditions. Gorgeous campus.
William & Mary- overall nerdy feel. Most people that I know who attend this school chose it for academics over UVA because it tends to be more study,study, study.
UNC - Chapel Hill- No comment
James Madison University- Alot of white people. Some may think its a deterrent if your a minority. All around nice people though. Intense drinking and many fights have been witnessed with meatheads. I've been told from alot of people that its overrated for the price, especially amongst landing a job and internships. A good buddy transferred from JMU to GMU for accounting because he felt he wasn't challenged enough. Overall though, it provides a good blend of social life and academics.
George Mason University- definitely up and coming. It was a commuter school a decade ago but the admin. has been building alot of new academic and housing buildings. Great business school with optimal internship and job potential. Had multiple friends start of at $70k with accounting and computer science majors. Also good in government/poli sci and psychology. Engineering program is also on the rise. I'd say it's a school to watch down the years.
Virginia Tech- have a couple friends that attend there for science/eng. classes. highly, highly, highly regarded for their engineering/computer science programs. Alot of job potentials there. I've been told that the rest of the programs are at par with every other school though.
Virginia Commonwealth-artsy school that is known as one of the best in the arts. People blend academics with fashion. City life all the way. Its kinda like a step down from NYU.
Old Dominion University- located in Norfolk. Solid academics. Semi commuter and party school.</p>
<p>To sum it up, all of the schools you mentioned are great. What you have to do is find the one that suits you the best. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks HulkHogan, that really helped.</p>
<p>Any other opinions on these schools?</p>
<p>I do wonder why you said no comment for UNC haha.</p>
<p>Oh, I just didn't know anything about UNC with the exception of stats and what I see on tv. :)</p>
<p>W&M does a phenomenal job preparing you for life. Liberal arts students are prepared to go in whichever direction life takes you. Has great "mystique" b/c of name/history/size. Other schools are good but tough to be exclusive when there are 15,000 - 20,000 of you.</p>
<p>You don't know me so my opinions are moot and you should take them with a grain of salt because the things that are important to me are probably less important to you.</p>
<p>UNC, UVA, Virginia Tech would top out the list for me. I say this because they all have national, if not international, renown. They are also large schools that can offer a diversity of paths with strong concentrations in specific fields.</p>
<p>plue00, HulkHogan's assessments kind of echo what I hear from a lot of kids. I hadn't heard that ODU was strong academically, though, with the exception of their coastal engineering programs. I agree with him though about GMU being an up and coming school for the state of Virginia. I think Virginia has the best options around for an undergraduate education. How to pick depends on many personal variables. </p>
<p>I will say, and I am probably going to get slammed by all of those Tribe lovers out there, that while I love W&M (several family members are alums), I would be a bit concerned coming out of school right now with a liberal arts degree from a small liberal arts school. Two W&M kids I know that graduated last May (finance and business major) are bartending and looking at going to grad school because neither can find a job. I know the economy is mostly to blame, but still. There is a lot to be said for big schools, alumni networking, and technology based educations.</p>
<p>UVa-This was my first choice. It has a beautiful campus. Best known for its business and engineering majors.
William & Mary- Older campus. Pretty.
James Madison University- Biased b/c that is where I am going to school! Beautiful campus. Everyone is really friendly. I really love it! :) Best known for its business and education majors.
George Mason University- Commuter school that is up and coming. Lots of international business majors.
Virginia Tech- Large student body. Great football team. Best known for its engineering major.</p>
<p>so wait would you still consider george mason a commuter school? i know its had that label for quite some time now... but i got accepted there and i was wondering if it was worth it..</p>
<p>^ to be honest, I think it depends on what type of person you are. If your friendly and open-minded, then off course you are bound to make friends. GMU's overall student pop. is roughly 30k give or take. They have a vast grad program so undergrad is at again roughly 18k went you take out the grad student numbers. Then, you need to take into consideration the fact that they have the Prince William and Alexandria campus. So its a fair assumption to assume that those schools are roughly 5-7k students going there. With that being said, I'd say theres like 12k students that go to Fairfax. I believe the current amount of rooms available is 4,500 or 5,000 with 1,000 more rooms coming. What you also have to take into account is the number of students who live down the street in the college oriented apts, and nearby in the city of fairfax. So to answer your question, I'd say no, but the amount of commuters compared to other schools is greater. The thing that people misinterpret is that off campus students at other more remote schools like UVA, Vtech, and JMU for example are from Northern Virginia, and most of the students that attend that school are from different regions of VA and states.</p>