What colleges get the most hate on this board?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA

Hands down - UVA - the Harvard of the South

The Harvard of the South would be Duke

UVA is the Tufts of the South

UVA is much better than Tufts at its best.

No. UVA is relentlessly oversold.

It might be but it's still much better than Tufts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:duke

Duke envy! Honest persons admit Duke is an elite institution with a consistently great basketball team.

Much UVA hate which seems in response to UVA boosters trying to elevate the brand higher than reality.

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Striver: insecure word used by lazy, ignorant folks who don't have the work ethic of disciplined folks and are insanely jealous of the results of such discipline and can't match it with their strutting but try to mock the other in the hopes of scoring a point

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Back to the original question....
Southern State Universities (Georgia in particular) (or perhaps Rocky Mountain Schools, but I did not put them first since they are simply ignored v. being hated).

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Anonymous wrote:duke

Duke envy! Honest persons admit Duke is an elite institution with a consistently great basketball team.

Much UVA hate which seems in response to UVA boosters trying to elevate the brand higher than reality.

No, it's actually the reverse. Usually, on this board someone makes the stupid "UVA is overrated" comment, thinking they are being clever, when we all know they are a student from a rival school like VTech or UMD pr a parent or student who is bitter because they didn't get in or, as in the case of my DC, didn't even have the stats to apply. Then someone who actually knows something about UVA posts the stats required to attend or something positive with a link. I rarely see a booster here go first, like the funny "Roll Tide" booster. It's pure envy and sadly because this is anonymous, the bitter people post first. For example, just a few posts above someone said out of the blue "UVA because NOVA parents are so obnoxious" which is fallacious for a number of reasons not even worth addressing but supports my point that the bitter posters go first.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools that feel “strivery” are annoying. Doesn’t mean the education isn’t just fine but not what they comport themselves to be.

Examples: U chicago (while a good school for sure, the kids and school feel like they are trying too too hard) , Tulane, Wash U, NYU.

Only in America trying "too hard" academically is considered a bad thing and "annoying".

No wonder the country depends on educated immigrants from China and India for technology sector jobs and hard-working immigrants from Latin America for labor-intensive jobs. Americans will only work jobs that don't require "trying too hard" because that is "annoying", so the only jobs left are HR and consulting.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools that feel “strivery” are annoying. Doesn’t mean the education isn’t just fine but not what they comport themselves to be. o

Examples: U chicago (while a good school for sure, the kids and school feel like they are trying too too hard) , Tulane, Wash U, NYU.

Says the state school grad. It’s better to strive than to be out of the game altogether.

Paying more for a private school does not make you more elite, haha. Would take Berkeley “state school” non-striver over a gross Uchicago “wanna-be Ivy” any day.

Non-strivers don't get into Berkeley. Berkeley is entirely full of strivers - as are most top public universities - and that is not a bad thing in any way.

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Just don't get the hate. If a parent didn't attend and/or won't let their kid attend a school they see as substandard, then why even waste a scintilla of energy about it. The level of energy that goes into arguing about Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Hopkins, Northwestern, etc or Case, Tufts, Wash U, etc - really? Just preposterous.

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UVA boasters insist that all NoVa families would want UVA if possible. Not close to being true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:duke

Duke envy! Honest persons admit Duke is an elite institution with a consistently great basketball team.

Much UVA hate which seems in response to UVA boosters trying to elevate the brand higher than reality.

No, it's actually the reverse. Usually, on this board someone makes the stupid "UVA is overrated" comment, thinking they are being clever, when we all know they are a student from a rival school like VTech or UMD pr a parent or student who is bitter because they didn't get in or, as in the case of my DC, didn't even have the stats to apply. Then someone who actually knows something about UVA posts the stats required to attend or something positive with a link. I rarely see a booster here go first, like the funny "Roll Tide" booster. It's pure envy and sadly because this is anonymous, the bitter people post first. For example, just a few posts above someone said out of the blue "UVA because NOVA parents are so obnoxious" which is fallacious for a number of reasons not even worth addressing but supports my point that the bitter posters go first.

Lol I'm sorry but truly no one thinks that highly of UVA. This is what is so comical.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools that feel “strivery” are annoying. Doesn’t mean the education isn’t just fine but not what they comport themselves to be. o

Examples: U chicago (while a good school for sure, the kids and school feel like they are trying too too hard) , Tulane, Wash U, NYU.

Says the state school grad. It’s better to strive than to be out of the game altogether.

Paying more for a private school does not make you more elite, haha. Would take Berkeley “state school” non-striver over a gross Uchicago “wanna-be Ivy” any day.

Non-strivers don't get into Berkeley. Berkeley is entirely full of strivers - as are most top universities - and that is not a bad thing in any way.

FIFY.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools that feel “strivery” are annoying. Doesn’t mean the education isn’t just fine but not what they comport themselves to be. o

Examples: U chicago (while a good school for sure, the kids and school feel like they are trying too too hard) , Tulane, Wash U, NYU.

Says the state school grad. It’s better to strive than to be out of the game altogether.

Paying more for a private school does not make you more elite, haha. Would take Berkeley “state school” non-striver over a gross Uchicago “wanna-be Ivy” any day.

Non-strivers don't get into Berkeley. Berkeley is entirely full of strivers - as are most top public universities - and that is not a bad thing in any way.

Ah, the village idiot returns.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like there's at least one person obsessed with trashing Emory and Chicago

I’m sure there are more than one

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Anonymous wrote:UVA

Hands down - UVA - the Harvard of the South

The Harvard of the South would be Duke

UVA is the Tufts of the South

UVA is much better than Tufts at its best.

No. UVA is relentlessly oversold.

It might be but it's still much better than Tufts.

Tufts ROI is $1.54M vs. $1.29M for UVA. Tufts value add over expected earnings is +$5,700 per year. UVA's is -$2,400 per year.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/college-rankings/#interactivehttps://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/collegeroi/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA

Hands down - UVA - the Harvard of the South

The Harvard of the South would be Duke

UVA is the Tufts of the South

UVA is much better than Tufts at its best.

No. UVA is relentlessly oversold.

It might be but it's still much better than Tufts.

Tufts ROI is $1.54M vs. $1.29M for UVA. Tufts value add over expected earnings is +$5,700 per year. UVA's is -$2,400 per year.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/college-rankings/#interactivehttps://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/collegeroi/

And do you know why? Think about it.