U of Richmond fast becoming elite

[Anonymous]

Tied in this year’s US news with Wesleyan, Haverford, Barnard and Colgate and ahead of Colby and Bates.

I’ve always thought the latter two were overrated anyway. There’s no one at either who got into Bowdoin.

[Anonymous]

Very surprised by this, certainly not the general perception. I would still prefer any of the other schools listed for DD.

[Anonymous]

Selectivity can be a bit of a scam, depending on how well a given school markets and achieves high number of applications, and manages yield protection.

[Anonymous]

LOL

[Anonymous]

Hahaha… sure

[Anonymous]

They like to think they are elite.

[Anonymous]

Richmond is clearly at the bottom of that list.

[Anonymous]

Enjoy it while you can before the ratings mysteriously reshuffle next year. The rankings have every incentive to create movement on their lists to generate publicity but I don’t think many people are dumb enough to believe that these colleges actually change so much from year to year..

[Anonymous]

The University of Richmond has an excellent reputation and is especially well regarded among people native to Virginia and North Carolina. What it lacks is the same level of national awareness enjoyed by some of the other schools listed above. I suspect most of the previous one-liners come from DMV transplants who don't know any better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Selectivity can be a bit of a scam, depending on how well a given school markets and achieves high number of applications, and manages yield protection.

Selectivity has virtually nothing to do with the US News rankings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enjoy it while you can before the ratings mysteriously reshuffle next year. The rankings have every incentive to create movement on their lists to generate publicity but I don’t think many people are dumb enough to believe that these colleges actually change so much from year to year..

Maybe. But none of the other colleges I just listed have changed in the rankings all that much. Just Richmond.

[Anonymous]

Haha thanks for the morning laugh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The University of Richmond has an excellent reputation and is especially well regarded among people native to Virginia and North Carolina. What it lacks is the same level of national awareness enjoyed by some of the other schools listed above. I suspect most of the previous one-liners come from DMV transplants who don't know any better.

I've lived in VA for 30+ years. Richmond is at the bottom of that list. If you live in-state, it's hard to imagine why anyone would choose Richmond over multiple public options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The University of Richmond has an excellent reputation and is especially well regarded among people native to Virginia and North Carolina. What it lacks is the same level of national awareness enjoyed by some of the other schools listed above. I suspect most of the previous one-liners come from DMV transplants who don't know any better.

I've lived in VA for 30+ years. Richmond is at the bottom of that list. If you live in-state, it's hard to imagine why anyone would choose Richmond over multiple public options.

I’ve lived in Virginia since the 1980s. It doesn’t make me any more of an expert on all things Virginia any more than it does you.

[Anonymous]

It’s been close to 20 years, but our oldest got into Notre Dame and went to UVA after getting waitlisted by Richmond. It wasn’t their first choice and maybe they played the yield game but still, we were surprised.