Great article on the direction UVA is heading......

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^^ meant "preppy" not "pretty". But many of the UVA students are fit and attractive for what that's worth.

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of schools in Virginia to serve the unwashed masses. UVA doesn’t need to be one of them.

Bitch.

Wahhh! [b]My low stats kid was rejected from UVA in favor of a higher stats OOS kid. Pity me!

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+1. (it has been a brutal year int he college admissions race)

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of schools in Virginia to serve the unwashed masses. UVA doesn’t need to be one of them.

Bitch.

Wahhh! My low stats kid was rejected from UVA in favor of a higher stats OOS kid. Pity me!

Actually, I don't have any kids applying to college right now, and DS would probably get in if he wanted to go there, which he doesn't. You're just being a bitch.

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Anonymous wrote:When I took trips from my Ivy to visit some of the 30-plus kids from high school going to UVA years ago it didn’t seem all that preppy to me. I mean lots of kids lived off campus in fairly basic apartments and the fraternity scene seemed very State U.

I can only surmise some of these comments are a reaction to its having become more selective over the years.

I was visiting the school about two years ago and couldn't believe the number of guys I saw wearing pastel polo shirts. That's really not the type of thing you see on other college campuses.

Not true. I wish bitter parents and students who did not get in would take their angst elsewhere. It's not fair to UVA's volunteer Board of Trustees, faculty or students to make such broad assertions. UVA can't be preppy because 2/3 of the students come from Virginia.

It’s not true that I saw a ton of guys in pastel polos? And what the hell does the fact that 2/3 of the students are from Virginia have to do with whether they are preppy or not?

Virginians aren't pretty. There might be four or five of them at Potomac but that's it. It's absurd to call UVA students "preppy". Maybe attractive, wealthy from NoVA, FCPS, but not preppy.

You are using an extremely narrow definition of preppy. Outside of the NE, the term is useid to describe people who dress in a certain aesthetic. I think you know that.

No, I don't know that But calling 23,000 students "preppy" is absurd. You are engaging in bigoted stereotypes.

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of schools in Virginia to serve the unwashed masses. UVA doesn’t need to be one of them.

Bitch.

Wahhh! My low stats kid was rejected from UVA in favor of a higher stats OOS kid. Pity me!

Actually, I don't have any kids applying to college right now, and DS would probably get in if he wanted to go there, which he doesn't. You're just being a bitch.

You have no idea how difficult it is to get into UVA today. And calling someone a bitch is not nice and a bigoted stereotype.

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I attended UVA in the mid 90s. The upside and downside of UVA is the size of the undergrad/grad population. Its a large school - which means, that there are ample research opps, big-name professors who are well-known in their fields, AND that there are many, many different tribes/groups/cliques to find and form a bond with. To generalize that everyone at UVA is a fraternity/sorority member is dumb. No, not everyone dresses preppy. And believe it or not, there are many international, and OOS students at UVA.

Smaller schools are more likely to have a homogenous population. UVA does not.

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I love in Charlottesville and the students dress/act no differently than any of the students I saw when spending time at JMU and VT. Just normal college kid clothes. The only people that dress flashy are the international students, but that is true at every school.

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Anonymous wrote:I love in Charlottesville and the students dress/act no differently than any of the students I saw when spending time at JMU and VT. Just normal college kid clothes. The only people that dress flashy are the international students, but that is true at every school.

Another UVa Alum and now Charlottesville resident, and the above is true. Lots of athleisure, t-shirts and khakis, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny, I've heard the bright kids this month debating on whether they want to go to UVA or VT, and the argument keeps coming up that UVA has too many preppy douchelords.

And poor old W&M is completely out of fashion with the kids--too stodgy and grindy, and lacking in tech shinies.

Those kids are too linear in their thinking.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/20/mark-cuban-philosophy-degree-will-be-worth-more-than-computer-science.html

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Anonymous wrote:Is OSU obnoxious because they say THE before their name? Of course not. It's just school-specific slang.

Ohio native here. Hells, yeah, it's obnoxious. And Buckeye alums are mocked mercilessly for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Is OSU obnoxious because they say THE before their name? Of course not. It's just school-specific slang.

Ohio native here. Hells, yeah, it's obnoxious. And Buckeye alums are mocked mercilessly for it.

Heh heh heh. And it's THE Harvard Law School, BTW.

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Is someone trying to get people to see UVA negatively because they are about to become even more popular due to March Madness?

VCU and GMU benefited when their basketball teams did well in the tournament. Could it happen to UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone trying to get people to see UVA negatively because they are about to become even more popular due to March Madness?

VCU and GMU benefited when their basketball teams did well in the tournament. Could it happen to UVA?

That's my thinking - or because they didn't get into UVA EA (RD decisions come out April lst). Yes, UVA no. 1 in basketball. Building that new arena turned out to be a wise investment by the Board of Trustees, no?

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone trying to get people to see UVA negatively because they are about to become even more popular due to March Madness?

VCU and GMU benefited when their basketball teams did well in the tournament. Could it happen to UVA?

That's my thinking - or because they didn't get into UVA EA (RD decisions come out April lst). Yes, UVA no. 1 in basketball. Building that new arena turned out to be a wise investment by the Board of Trustees, no?

THe better investment was obviously hiring the right coach.

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone trying to get people to see UVA negatively because they are about to become even more popular due to March Madness?

VCU and GMU benefited when their basketball teams did well in the tournament. Could it happen to UVA?

It could, and will, but the school is already immensely popular. But I guess applications could soon top 50,000. The basketball team is just flat out superior.