Why is UVA rated as high as it is?

[Anonymous]

We are lucky in VA to have a number of good-to-excellent public colleges.There are good choices for everyone. In my family's case, my DC chose a major (architecture) that is not super popular so in-state options could have been very limited (vs. for example, business, economics, computer science, psychology, etc.). It turns out that VA has not one but two very good public universities that offer architecture (VTech and UVA). Some states have just one. We feel lucky that there are such good choices. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

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Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

Lol hate to break it to you buddy, but UVA is low key a brand name school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

Lol hate to break it to you buddy, but UVA is low key a brand name school.

That's debatable according to the numerous forum threads. Our family look at it from an ROI perspective, cost vs return. Both of us and our kids are doing well career wise with our UVA degrees.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

It's not about "boosting our kids futures" with a sort of brand name on a piece of paper. It is the whole experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

Lol hate to break it to you buddy, but UVA is low key a brand name school.

That's debatable according to the numerous forum threads. Our family look at it from an ROI perspective, cost vs return. Both of us and our kids are doing well career wise with our UVA degrees.

Dc urban is the only place where UVA’s prestige is trivialized. If you go on Reddit or College Confidential everyone treats it as a top school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

It's not about "boosting our kids futures" with a sort of brand name on a piece of paper. It is the whole experience.

Hmm..and you've experienced both an Ivy and public state school undergraduate programs to make this comparison that a brand name is a whole lot better experience? and atleast at twice the cost?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

Lol hate to break it to you buddy, but UVA is low key a brand name school.

That's debatable according to the numerous forum threads. Our family look at it from an ROI perspective, cost vs return. Both of us and our kids are doing well career wise with our UVA degrees.

Dc urban is the only place where UVA’s prestige is trivialized. If you go on Reddit or College Confidential everyone treats it as a top school.

No they don't. Here's the thing - no one interprets "top" the same way. One person's ceiling is another person's floor. If you say top to me, I'm thinking Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Yale, and Caltech. That's just me, but it shows why you are going to get blowback on a word like "top".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

It's not about "boosting our kids futures" with a sort of brand name on a piece of paper. It is the whole experience.

Hmm..and you've experienced both an Ivy and public state school undergraduate programs to make this comparison that a brand name is a whole lot better experience? and atleast at twice the cost?

Private, but not Ivy. And yes, the private was very expensive and an amazing experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

Lol hate to break it to you buddy, but UVA is low key a brand name school.

That's debatable according to the numerous forum threads. Our family look at it from an ROI perspective, cost vs return. Both of us and our kids are doing well career wise with our UVA degrees.

Dc urban is the only place where UVA’s prestige is trivialized. If you go on Reddit or College Confidential everyone treats it as a top school.

No they don't. Here's the thing - no one interprets "top" the same way. One person's ceiling is another person's floor. If you say top to me, I'm thinking Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Yale, and Caltech. That's just me, but it shows why you are going to get blowback on a word like "top".

Yes. It is just you that thinks on a list with 3,000 entries only 6 are acceptable to subjectively claim “top”.

Same logic: Why not just 1? Yale is not “top”. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! I have decided it is MIT so anything else is not top.


See how dumb that is?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

Lol hate to break it to you buddy, but UVA is low key a brand name school.

That's debatable according to the numerous forum threads. Our family look at it from an ROI perspective, cost vs return. Both of us and our kids are doing well career wise with our UVA degrees.

Dc urban is the only place where UVA’s prestige is trivialized. If you go on Reddit or College Confidential everyone treats it as a top school.

No they don't. Here's the thing - no one interprets "top" the same way. One person's ceiling is another person's floor. If you say top to me, I'm thinking Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Yale, and Caltech. That's just me, but it shows why you are going to get blowback on a word like "top".

Yes. It is just you that thinks on a list with 3,000 entries only 6 are acceptable to subjectively claim “top”.

Same logic: Why not just 1? Yale is not “top”. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! I have decided it is MIT so anything else is not top.


See how dumb that is?

Bad example. It is MIT and everything else is not top.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

Lol hate to break it to you buddy, but UVA is low key a brand name school.

That's debatable according to the numerous forum threads. Our family look at it from an ROI perspective, cost vs return. Both of us and our kids are doing well career wise with our UVA degrees.

Dc urban is the only place where UVA’s prestige is trivialized. If you go on Reddit or College Confidential everyone treats it as a top school.

No they don't. Here's the thing - no one interprets "top" the same way. One person's ceiling is another person's floor. If you say top to me, I'm thinking Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Yale, and Caltech. That's just me, but it shows why you are going to get blowback on a word like "top".

Yes. It is just you that thinks on a list with 3,000 entries only 6 are acceptable to subjectively claim “top”.

Same logic: Why not just 1? Yale is not “top”. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! I have decided it is MIT so anything else is not top.


See how dumb that is?

Mans is just living in a bubble. He really thinks the average high school student only sees 6-10 schools as “top” lmao, what a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

It's not about "boosting our kids futures" with a sort of brand name on a piece of paper. It is the whole experience.

Hmm..and you've experienced both an Ivy and public state school undergraduate programs to make this comparison that a brand name is a whole lot better experience? and atleast at twice the cost?

Private, but not Ivy. And yes, the private was very expensive and an amazing experience.

And you don't think a kid at a public state school can have an amazing experience? only at a private brand name that cost much more?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

Lol hate to break it to you buddy, but UVA is low key a brand name school.

That's debatable according to the numerous forum threads. Our family look at it from an ROI perspective, cost vs return. Both of us and our kids are doing well career wise with our UVA degrees.

Dc urban is the only place where UVA’s prestige is trivialized. If you go on Reddit or College Confidential everyone treats it as a top school.

No they don't. Here's the thing - no one interprets "top" the same way. One person's ceiling is another person's floor. If you say top to me, I'm thinking Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Yale, and Caltech. That's just me, but it shows why you are going to get blowback on a word like "top".

Yes. It is just you that thinks on a list with 3,000 entries only 6 are acceptable to subjectively claim “top”.

Same logic: Why not just 1? Yale is not “top”. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! I have decided it is MIT so anything else is not top.


See how dumb that is?

You completely missed the point, which was that no one agrees on "top", so saying things like "everyone treats it as a top school" are bound to encourage disagreements.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

Yep -- they're the smart ones all right.

Look, if a NOVA kid gets into an Ivy or something, then sure you make it work. But why pay two to three times more for a Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Vanderbilt? Makes zero sense.

Spoken like a true cheapskate.

Enjoy that second vacation home!

So many delusional parents living through their kids and thinking some brand name schools can boost their kids' futures. Both the wife and I graduated from UVA in the late 80s, our NW is around 7mil and all our kids are/will be UVA graduates.

It's not about "boosting our kids futures" with a sort of brand name on a piece of paper. It is the whole experience.

Hmm..and you've experienced both an Ivy and public state school undergraduate programs to make this comparison that a brand name is a whole lot better experience? and atleast at twice the cost?

Private, but not Ivy. And yes, the private was very expensive and an amazing experience.

And you don't think a kid at a public state school can have an amazing experience? only at a private brand name that cost much more?

Correct. Brilliant kids will get great grades in public college and move on to be productive, successful adults. I know that. But the experience is quite different, and in a way who you are after. I can't explain it. It's like the Oracle in the Matrix. You have to walk path yourself to get it.