<p>My D got in at both places too. She’s going somewhere else, but I’d guess that if she chosen between them, she’d have wound up choosing UVA too. It’s a smaller school than USC, with a tight-knit student body that’s probably more cohesive than USC’s. That said, USC is in Princeton Review’s Top 10 list of students’ dream schools for 2008, and UVA isn’t.</p>