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I've been chasing UVA ever since I started at the community college, but now that application time is coming around, I've gotten honest with myself and it has sort of hit me that maybe a competitive school like UVA where A's are hard to come by (for example, Physics curves down) isn't the best idea when I've already had my rough patch and will be on GPA recovery for the rest of undergrad.
UVA - My top choice, for so many reasons, I like the program, I've mapped out all of the classes I would have to take and am very happy/excited about it, I like the environment, and it's also just "a better school"
VCU - Not even my second choice, but it seems like a good premed school, is affiliated with a good hospital, probably has plenty of research opportunities, is known, but is a completely different environment than UVA. I wouldn't be miserable at VCU or anything but Richmond and the "hipster vibe" isn't my cup of tea.
CNU - No name, new school with a really nice campus, some people might not see it but it has a lot of similarities to UVA in the kinds of people that go there (if that makes sense) but it's smaller, probably not a lot of research opportunities.
There is also JMU...
Any opinions appreciated.
UVA - My top choice, for so many reasons, I like the program, I've mapped out all of the classes I would have to take and am very happy/excited about it, I like the environment, and it's also just "a better school"
VCU - Not even my second choice, but it seems like a good premed school, is affiliated with a good hospital, probably has plenty of research opportunities, is known, but is a completely different environment than UVA. I wouldn't be miserable at VCU or anything but Richmond and the "hipster vibe" isn't my cup of tea.
CNU - No name, new school with a really nice campus, some people might not see it but it has a lot of similarities to UVA in the kinds of people that go there (if that makes sense) but it's smaller, probably not a lot of research opportunities.
There is also JMU...
Any opinions appreciated.