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Get the inside scoop on Southern Virginia University admissions. Vault provides detailed accounts by students & alumni of the admissions process, including advice on getting in, applications, interviews, essays, and selectivity.


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Admissions Survey Excerpts
Current Student
This is really not a very difficult school to get into - yet. It was taken over by some LDS (Mormon) businessmen in 1996 when they agreed to assume...   READ MORE
Current Student
Southern Virginia does not have a very selective process, in fact, it is rumored that the only way students do not get in is if they have a bad ec...   READ MORE
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Academics Survey Excerpts
Current Student
The academics are not anything like what one might expect from the ease of admission. The largest class I have ever been in is about 25, and many u...   READ MORE
Current Student
Despite the ease of the admisssions process, many students leave after a semester or a year here because the instructors believe in giving quality...   READ MORE
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Employment Prospect Survey Excerpts
Current Student
Being so new, our alumni network is almost non-existent, but the few we have have really paved the way for us at some pretty good grad schools. There...   READ MORE
Current Student
That is laughable. Graduation is fast approaching for me, and depite searching, I am afraid I have no crystallized prospects. Basically, we do not h...   READ MORE
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Quality of Life Survey Excerpts
Current Student
This is a bit lacking. With notable exceptions of downtown Lexington, VA (five miles away) which houses VMI & W&L, with it's sophisticated small-to...   READ MORE
Current Student
Buena Vista could be a great place to live if everything did not close when the sun goes down. Lexington (about 6 miles away) is a neat place, bu...   READ MORE
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Social Life Survey Excerpts
Current Student
This is a tough question to answer, as many staples of college social life don't fly in a Mormon environment. Example: not only do we not have any ...   READ MORE
Current Student
Being that it follows the principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, not many students go to bars and there's no Greek system....   READ MORE

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