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Thread #41523   Message #600940
Posted By: GUEST,Claymore
30-Nov-01 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: College Questions for Leftist Folk
Subject: RE: BS: College Questions for Leftist Folk
I sorry to tell you this, Confused, but U of VA is pretty much out of the question for someone with a B+ grade average. As the "Harvard of the South", and a reputation for a strict Honor Code (kicking out Teddy Kennedy for cheating on tests) it is probably not where your daughter should go. It offers one of the best educations in the US for one of the lowest tuitions, and as a result, kids in VA start studying for it in junior high. They've actually had to put quotas on certain counties in VA whose whole school systems are devoted into getting their kids into UVA. Since it's only a couple of years younger than Harvard, it's an instituion in Virginia and the region.

As I sit here and think on it, I'm not sure the South is the region to find liberal Liberal Arts Colleges, but due to local wage scales, it's still one of the best education bargains around.

And for the record Spaw, I was majoring in Philosophy when I got drafted, did the Nam thing as a Marine officer up from the ranks, and came back to finsh my degree in Law Enforcement. Getting shot at focuses the mind wonderfully... but the major got me some of the most amazing chicks... if you could just shut them up... bent over a sofa and still discussing Kant... but I digress...