UGA vs. UVA

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot imagine any college kid thinking Charlottesville was the better town. For those that think Charlottesville is a better town are you in your 50s? Athens is laid back southern but progressive with much better nightlife and an hour form Atlanta.

Athens has terrible crime.

+1. Charlottesville ranked A here for best places to live. Atlanta a C. https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/charlottesville-va/

College park is bad and Charlottesville also. Sounds like no college town is super safe. Ann Arbor bad as well.

College park is a major sh!+hole the the added benefit of all the gang-bangers from D.C. and even Balto cruising through.

Charlottesville is a whole lot smaller, more isolated, and not nearly as crime-infested as College Park.

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Anonymous wrote:Um, when I lived in NYC, I was a member of the Yale Club because UVa and Dartmouth share a clubhouse with them.
https://www.yaleclubnyc.org/affiliates/uva

Plus, the oldest alumni polo match in the country is organized by alums from Yale and UVa.
https://www.harrimancup.org

This isn’t relevant to the question of whether Charlottesville is better than Athens.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Why does Charlottesville have a unique mystique? Is it the secret societies?

Bump

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Both are great schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe UVa is more competitive. Why are these two being compared!?

UGA has better nightlife. UVA has a higher self-satisfied pretentiousness quotient.

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Is anyone deciding between UVa and UGA?

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone deciding between UVa and UGA?

Bingo. Not a real decision. No one picks based on town, but on quality of education and peers. UVA wins by a landslide. UGA is for VA residents who do not got in to UVA, or OOS folks who do not get in to the better state schools (UCB, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Mich).

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely Charlottesville. Athens has a very high crime rate and, unlike Chartlottesville, poor food. From wiki: "With a crime rate of 35 per one thousand residents, Athens has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 28."

My daughter is a third year at UVA and the crime rate in Charlottesville is also really high. It has gotten progressively (double meaning) worse over the last five years.

Progressively Worse LOL what a great ad campaign-agree with that but want my uterus off limits

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone deciding between UVa and UGA?

Bingo. Not a real decision. No one picks based on town, but on quality of education and peers. UVA wins by a landslide. UGA is for VA residents who do not got in to UVA, or OOS folks who do not get in to the better state schools (UCB, UVA, UNC, UCLA, Mich).

This is not helpful. Would like to hear from anyone that is deciding between UVa and UGA. The town is important and the setting between UGA and UVA seems to be similar.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe UVa is more competitive. Why are these two being compared!?

UGA has better nightlife. UVA has a higher self-satisfied pretentiousness quotient.

UGA also has better football.

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Athens much better college town. UGA students much less pretentious. UVA is NOVA high school 2.0.

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UGA students will be less sophisticated and more provincial. It’s very much a school for frat/sorority types who go live in Atlanta afterwards. The students are less career oriented. There are exceptions but for the most part UGA isn’t the same caliber of a school as UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:UGA students will be less sophisticated and more provincial. It’s very much a school for frat/sorority types who go live in Atlanta afterwards. The students are less career oriented. There are exceptions but for the most part UGA isn’t the same caliber of a school as UVA.

Cite that UGA students are less sophisticated and more provincial?

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Anonymous wrote:Athens much better college town. UGA students much less pretentious. UVA is NOVA high school 2.0.

DCUM: Can't get into UVA from NOVA
Also DCUM: UVA is NOVA high school 2.0

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Anonymous wrote:UGA students will be less sophisticated and more provincial. It’s very much a school for frat/sorority types who go live in Atlanta afterwards. The students are less career oriented. There are exceptions but for the most part UGA isn’t the same caliber of a school as UVA.

Oh my goodness. I can't believe some of the UVA boosters here. What a turnoff.