UVA vs Penn State

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Anonymous wrote:Penn State is more well known than UVA. My west coast friends dont really care too much about UVA - for them - its just a state school

Nice try.

NP but this is true. UVA is just another state school to almost everyone who doesn’t live in the mid Atlantic region. I know that is hard for NoVa people to understand but it is true.

-former west coaster

DP- This just isn’t true. Anyone that doesn’t know UVA is provincial.

+1
I grew up in a small city of blue collar workers in the middle of "flyover country" in the late 1970s where most of my peers, if they even went to college, only attended the local community college and even I knew UVA. I lived in San Francisco in the 1990s and several of my friends from those days took their HS kids on tours of UVA and W&M.

Yep. And they still do. Met tons of Cali and NE kids at both. WM has more OOS

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My kid and I did the admitted student and engineering open house at UVA. I was kind of shocked at how little the school appears to have invested in their engineering program. The educational approach and facilities reminded me of what engineering school was like 30+ years ago when I attended. This contrasted significantly with the other engineering schools we visited - Purdue, UMD, GA Tech, VA Tech, who had incredible labs, maker spaces, and took a really forward-looking interdisciplinary approach to engineering work. The investment and recruiting from local engineering firms at these other schools was really noteworthy as well, vs. what we saw at UVA. As much as it pains me to say, UVA is just NOT a great place to study engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid and I did the admitted student and engineering open house at UVA. I was kind of shocked at how little the school appears to have invested in their engineering program. The educational approach and facilities reminded me of what engineering school was like 30+ years ago when I attended. This contrasted significantly with the other engineering schools we visited - Purdue, UMD, GA Tech, VA Tech, who had incredible labs, maker spaces, and took a really forward-looking interdisciplinary approach to engineering work. The investment and recruiting from local engineering firms at these other schools was really noteworthy as well, vs. what we saw at UVA. As much as it pains me to say, UVA is just NOT a great place to study engineering.

Are you Lumpy from Reddit???

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UVA Engineering holds a lot of potential — bright kids, decent faculty, (theoretically) plenty of resources — but the school doesn’t give it much love compared to some of its other programs (commerce comes to mind…)

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Anonymous wrote:I think Penn State has a more widespread set of alumni, where UVA is very local. I'd go Penn State all the way.

UVa alumni very local??? What have you been drinking?!?!

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Anonymous wrote:My kid and I did the admitted student and engineering open house at UVA. I was kind of shocked at how little the school appears to have invested in their engineering program. The educational approach and facilities reminded me of what engineering school was like 30+ years ago when I attended. This contrasted significantly with the other engineering schools we visited - Purdue, UMD, GA Tech, VA Tech, who had incredible labs, maker spaces, and took a really forward-looking interdisciplinary approach to engineering work. The investment and recruiting from local engineering firms at these other schools was really noteworthy as well, vs. what we saw at UVA. As much as it pains me to say, UVA is just NOT a great place to study engineering.

I feel the same way. UVA just isn’t a big time player in STEM compared to those other schools mentioned, as well as many others.

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Anonymous wrote:This is entertaining.

+1. Another west coaster here. People on DCUM think of UVA as a really elite, prestigious institution and people on the west coast think of it as a strong public university. It’s not that people on the west coast “haven’t heard of” UVA or think it’s on par w any other state school. It’s just that they don’t hold it in such high regard as people in DC area do…just like DC folks don’t tend to realize how excellent schools like Pomona or Claremont McKenna are.

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For many majors the right choice would be UVA for engineering the right choice is Penn State.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously? UVA hand down.

+100

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously? UVA hand down.

Not that simple. Penn State is ahead 5-3 in the series, but Virginia has taken 3 of the last 4.
https://gopsusports.com/sports/football/opponent-history/university-of-virginia/33

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Yo people are insane.

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I didn't think Penn State gave merit over 5K?

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I live in the DMV and consider UVA and Penn State to be equivalent peers. Not sure why anyone thinks of UVA any differently. Solid state schools.

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What the hell is UVA? I grew up in California and and live in the Northeast. No one at my kid's private ever talks about this school. Why is this a thread?

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is UVA? I grew up in California and and live in the Northeast. No one at my kid's private ever talks about this school. Why is this a thread?

Some people out west know about UVA, but I don't think it's all that highly regarded by most Californians, not like it is in the DC area, which is fine. It makes sense that a state school is more highly regarded in the region than outside of it. Only schools like Cal, UCLA and Michigan probably have a high national profile.

-40 yr CA resident