Will riots/demonstrations affect UVA reputation/applications?

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Anonymous wrote:UMD will supplant UVA -- if not already. Watch.

College Park?? I wouldn't let my kid live there for free!

Why?

[Anonymous]

No effect. UVA is a renowned school and it attracts all types including the crazies. Like nuts are drawn to the White House and Capitol and cause trouble. The positive reputation lives on and is little tarnished by these events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No affect.

<sigh>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How will out of state vs in state applicants view UVA after riots?

Yes was on the fence already about my Afro-Am DS applying there, eve with heavy recruiting campaign, but don't want him dealing with this mess. NO thanks

[Anonymous]

No OP. Southern whites love white supremacy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These posts all seem reinforce ones view that the place just isn't what it used to be and more importantly is highly overrated.

It's probably less prejudiced now than it's ever been, but some prejudice remains and the school has a serious case of denial of its past.

This. I was already on the fence about it based on talking to minority alum, but being a state school we hoped it was an option for financial reasons. Now, you couldn't pay me to send my son there as his father is black and I'm Korean.

[Anonymous]

Virginia is a red racist state with a blue top (thank God!). UVa is in Charlottsville. So why are people surprised this happened???

[Anonymous]

The things that run through the anxious minds of UMC white posters here are unbelievable. SMH.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a minority being recruited by one of their sports teams....this is making me re-think and potentially talk to my child's travel coach about re-focusing their efforts elsewhere. Sports team or not, I cannot be fearful of my child's safety.

If your kid is good enough for ACc sports, and is a minority, surely he/she can go to an Ivy League school.
Why go to uva?

Scholarship differences....

[Anonymous]

Some of you alarmists remind me of myself when my DC was a HS senior applying to colleges and the Rolling Stone article was first published. I ranted to my DC no way are you going to UVA, don't even think about applying there. DC is about to start third year at UVA and younger sibling about to start his first year there. Needless to say, I calmed down. So will most everyone considering this whole terrible weekend had almost nothing to do with UVA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a minority being recruited by one of their sports teams....this is making me re-think and potentially talk to my child's travel coach about re-focusing their efforts elsewhere. Sports team or not, I cannot be fearful of my child's safety.

If your kid is good enough for ACc sports, and is a minority, surely he/she can go to an Ivy League school.
Why go to uva?

Scholarship differences....

Meh. Ivy >>>>>> racist state school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think out-of-staters have had the impression that Virginia is changing and not as much of a Southern state. I don't know the magnitude, but I would guess that has generally increase interest in UVA...particularly from minorities who would be very reluctant to go to other highly ranked southern schools.

This event will re-associate Virginia with the south and racism, and it may have an impact in interest. It's hard to say, though, and it'll depend on what UVA does in response.

Like what?

Like acknowledging that minority students who are about to start college in a week might feel a little unsafe walking around Charlottesville right now, and talking about that openly instead of burying their heads in the sand.

And while I forgot to mention it initially, it'll also matter whether this is seen as a one-off thing or if Virginia is increasingly in the news for these types of events and controversies. As a former Virginia (albeit Arlington) resident, I can say the news seems very different now than it did only a few years back. A few years back the state government was picking on climate scientists, which was bad, but generally racial tensions were there but not in your face. This is a whole new thing, and after all of the C'ville gatherings this past year I feel very different now about having been a Virginia resident that I used to feel.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think out-of-staters have had the impression that Virginia is changing and not as much of a Southern state. I don't know the magnitude, but I would guess that has generally increase interest in UVA...particularly from minorities who would be very reluctant to go to other highly ranked southern schools.

This event will re-associate Virginia with the south and racism, and it may have an impact in interest. It's hard to say, though, and it'll depend on what UVA does in response.

Like what?

Like acknowledging that minority students who are about to start college in a week might feel a little unsafe walking around Charlottesville right now, and talking about that openly instead of burying their heads in the sand.

And while I forgot to mention it initially, it'll also matter whether this is seen as a one-off thing or if Virginia is increasingly in the news for these types of events and controversies. As a former Virginia (albeit Arlington) resident, I can say the news seems very different now than it did only a few years back. A few years back the state government was picking on climate scientists, which was bad, but generally racial tensions were there but not in your face. This is a whole new thing, and after all of the C'ville gatherings this past year I feel very different now about having been a Virginia resident that I used to feel.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think out-of-staters have had the impression that Virginia is changing and not as much of a Southern state. I don't know the magnitude, but I would guess that has generally increase interest in UVA...particularly from minorities who would be very reluctant to go to other highly ranked southern schools.

This event will re-associate Virginia with the south and racism, and it may have an impact in interest. It's hard to say, though, and it'll depend on what UVA does in response.

Like what?

Like acknowledging that minority students who are about to start college in a week might feel a little unsafe walking around Charlottesville right now, and talking about that openly instead of burying their heads in the sand.

And while I forgot to mention it initially, it'll also matter whether this is seen as a one-off thing or if Virginia is increasingly in the news for these types of events and controversies. As a former Virginia (albeit Arlington) resident, I can say the news seems very different now than it did only a few years back. A few years back the state government was picking on climate scientists, which was bad, but generally racial tensions were there but not in your face. This is a whole new thing, and after all of the C'ville gatherings this past year I feel very different now about having been a Virginia resident that I used to feel.

UVA parent here who has received plenty of communications from the school on this very subject so I don't know what you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think out-of-staters have had the impression that Virginia is changing and not as much of a Southern state. I don't know the magnitude, but I would guess that has generally increase interest in UVA...particularly from minorities who would be very reluctant to go to other highly ranked southern schools.

This event will re-associate Virginia with the south and racism, and it may have an impact in interest. It's hard to say, though, and it'll depend on what UVA does in response.

Like what?

Like acknowledging that minority students who are about to start college in a week might feel a little unsafe walking around Charlottesville right now, and talking about that openly instead of burying their heads in the sand.

And while I forgot to mention it initially, it'll also matter whether this is seen as a one-off thing or if Virginia is increasingly in the news for these types of events and controversies. As a former Virginia (albeit Arlington) resident, I can say the news seems very different now than it did only a few years back. A few years back the state government was picking on climate scientists, which was bad, but generally racial tensions were there but not in your face. This is a whole new thing, and after all of the C'ville gatherings this past year I feel very different now about having been a Virginia resident that I used to feel.

I have gotten similar messages from the school as an alum. But the messages I have seen don't acknowledge the school's troubling racial history or the continued role of racism on campus. That's what really bothers me and others. This article summarizes the problem with the school's position very well:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/14/white-supremacists-didnt-just-arrive-in-charlottesville-theyve-always-been-there/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_pe-cville-734am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d78216b67b20#comments

UVA parent here who has received plenty of communications from the school on this very subject so I don't know what you're talking about.