Why is UVA rated as high as it is?

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Every thread in this forum devolves into a massive douche-off.

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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.

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.

Please do go on about the amazing experience. Make sure to avoid making it sound like summer camp in the process.

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Anonymous wrote:If the state succeeds at eliminating advanced math options for K-10, will UVA and other Virginia publics continue to be highly rated in the years to come?

wut

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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.

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.

But you haven't walked the "public state school" path, how do you know it's not an amazing experience? especially for other people?

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To answer the original question: because it is a powerhouse for producing Rhodes Scholars. From wiki: Rhodes Scholarships are international postgraduate awards given to students to study at the University of Oxford. Since the scholarship program began in 1904, UVA has had fifty-five Rhodes Scholars.[105] This is the most of any university in the American South, eighth-most overall, and third-most outside the Ivy League (behind Stanford University and the United States Military Academy).

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Anonymous wrote:To answer the original question: because it is a powerhouse for producing Rhodes Scholars. From wiki: Rhodes Scholarships are international postgraduate awards given to students to study at the University of Oxford. Since the scholarship program began in 1904, UVA has had fifty-five Rhodes Scholars.[105] This is the most of any university in the American South, eighth-most overall, and third-most outside the Ivy League (behind Stanford University and the United States Military Academy).

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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UVA is rated appropriately. It’s not too 25, but still very good.

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It’s ranked pretty low in the world university rankings.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ranked pretty low in the world university rankings.

So don't send your child there, they won't be missed.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ranked pretty low in the world university rankings.

So don't send your child there, they won't be missed.

You’re “sending” your child somewhere?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ranked pretty low in the world university rankings.

So don't send your child there, they won't be missed.

You’re “sending” your child somewhere?

It's a figure of speech, lighten up.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ranked pretty low in the world university rankings.

So is Dartmouth, W&M, Georgetown, What’s your point?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ranked pretty low in the world university rankings.

So don't send your child there, they won't be missed.

You’re “sending” your child somewhere?

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Let's set the record straight. UVA is a perfectly fine state school, but at the end of the day, it's a state school like any other. Nobody outside of the mid-Atlantic thinks of UVA as being particularly interesting or prestigious. Locals always think their own backyard is well-known to outsiders, it's a common bias.

And yes, there is more to life than STEM. I'm a research scientist, and even I know this

well at the risk of devolving into a UVA fight as usual, all state schools are NOT created equal and people know that. I don't know who you all talk to, but UVA, UNC, Michigan, UCLA etc all are considered to be a step above other state universities. That's just a fact. I'm in the executive recruiting business and I talk to hiring managers all over the country sand they know what the top state schools are and what they aren't.

PP you replied to. Sure, I can agree with you that there are some quality differences among state schools. But vast differences? No. Equating any state school to prestigious world-renowned universities? Not by any stretch of the imagination. UVA is not the Holy Grail. It's pointless to bicker about a state school, is my point. They're not important enough.

They’re much more important than the Ivies. They educate a much larger number of students and are major centers of R&D. Too much focus on the Ivies for their contribution to the Commonweal.