UVA vs JHU vs Northwestern

fc2
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:23:34 +0000

Dean J:

Our D in similar sit’n - only deciding between UVA, GT, and Duke. Her father is UVA grad; brother at Tufts (she’s admitted there too but has pretty much decided no). I like your comment about “env they love” a lot - she is very tuned into that. What she now sees as biggest potential negative for UVA relative to the other two is size of univ and size of classes. She’s been at a small pvt school - g class of 80 - and never had large classes. She’s afraid she won’t like a lot of large classes and does not know if she wants to be at a campus as sprawling and less “contained” as UVA. She worries about finding a “community” for her. What do you think about this poss negative - she loves your town and loves the history/grounds - knows academics are equal?

Just incidentally, her negatives for the other two are that Duke puts frosh on separate campus and Durham is not a great college town and that GT is a city school and has no frats/sororities so social life really means going out to dinner in small groups.

Given all these facts you can see why her first choice was Princeton and she was deferred then denied. Fortunately, she is well over it.