Radford was known as a party school and a 3rd choice school. It was also popular among students who were smart but didn’t make good grades.
For sure. I was at VT in the early 80's and still don't remember how I got back to Blacksburg a few times. At that time Radford's ratio was 3:1 female to male and from what I recall, it had recently gone co-ed so that's another weird part of this guy's past.
As far as Radford being the female version of VT, it was mostly liberal arts from what I saw. Also, there were quite a few decent looking females in VT Engineering at the time so they had options and Radford shouldn't have been one of them for STEM.