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The average high school GPA of the admitted freshman class at Virginia Tech was 3.95 on the 4.0 scale indicating that primarily A-students are accepted and ultimately attend.
As of 2011, there are 176 colleges and universities in Virginia. In the U.S. News & World Report ranking of public colleges, the University of Virginia is second, The College of William & Mary is sixth, and Virginia Tech is 25th.