Why wouldn't every resident of VA apply ED to UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's silly to suggest that every student in VA is an idiot for not applying to UVA ED. There are some students who have a legit shot at a higher ranked school and it makes more sense strategically to apply there ED. For others, there's no chance of getting in ED and throwing an ED application at UVA is wasting an ED application at a more realistic school.

But if you're at the sweet spot it probably does make sense to do it. UVA gets so much flack on this board and it makes no sense. The only explanation that I can give, and I hate to say it, is jealousy. We live in a competitive area. DCUM is an extremely competitive website. Parents frequenting the college forum on this website are even more competitive. Many live or die for their kids to get into a "name" college.

UVA is certainly a "name" college. It's certainly a hard admit. And once you're in, and in state, it's a bargain price. Combined, this makes it a very desirable school on DCUM. And that leads to jealousy.

Hoo boy. There's something I don't think you're "getting" and that is what many posters have already said. Their kids aren't at all interested in UVA in the first place. Perhaps they've visited and were turned off (us). A lot of our kids much prefer VT or WM to UVA - that's a concept that apparently really triggers UVA parents. You might even call it, jealousy.

You fed the OP troll exactly what they wanted - disparagement of UVA families.

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Anonymous wrote:And of those 100, how many did she actually know? And of 17,000 students the chances of seeing anyone on a regular basis is small unless you want to. It's ok to not want to go to UVA, but that's a very weak reason.

Agree….when people say this, I always crack up. My kid had 10 other students from his high school going to UVA out of NOVA. They all run in completely different friend groups….and never see each other. My kid has met students from all over the globe being at UVA….definitely not “high school “ repeat.

We went for a visit and we ran into so many kids from high school, from various sports teams, etc. Then, if we didn’t actually know them - pretty much every kid was from Loudoun, Fairfax co or Arlington. The few offshoots were Long Islanders. At my other kid’s private, there are very few from VA. Kids are from all over the world. VA isn’t even widely represented and the school is 7 hours away which is “new”. I think people don’t necessarily use that phrase to mean it is everyone from their same HS- rather a feeling.

It's never helpful to exaggerate or just plain bullshit about facts when they are easily refuted by a quick google search. The fact is that there are more out of state students at UVA than there are from ALL of Northern Virginia combined -- a region that includes not only Arlington, Loudoun and Fairfax but also Alexandria, Prince William, Stafford, Falls Church City, etc. The region has millions of people and thousands and thousands of high school students.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people have claimed that there is a "snobby" atmosphere at UVA. That's not due to more affluent peers. It's simply due to the attitude of many students (and their parents). I've never quite understood where that attitude comes from, as the student body is largely the same as one would find at any state school. It's not a rarefied private. However, the students and parents seem to have this idea that it is. That's the part that turned us off. My kids wanted to go to a school with kids who didn't have a chip on their shoulder and who were (by and large) down to earth.

Ha. If they went to an Ivy or private SLAC or Georgetown, etc.,,,,then they would see true wealth. Private jets, etc. Why are they snobby at UVA? I think that’s what turns people off. This oversized attitude for a state school.

There are a lot of very wealthy OOS kids at UVA. Then there’s the astronomical wealth in surrounding Albemarle County. It sets the tone.

And that’s nothing compared to the West coast, Greenwich, NYC, international, Hollywood, royalty etc wealth seen at Ivies/T10s/Georgetown, etc. Albemarle county is nothing. lol

I guess some of the more down to earth uber wealthy kids from Greenwich and NYC (I’m thinking of specific people as I write this) choose UVA so they can get away from too many of their own type of feel special among a sea of NoVa suburbanites. Either way, they’re there in numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people have claimed that there is a "snobby" atmosphere at UVA. That's not due to more affluent peers. It's simply due to the attitude of many students (and their parents). I've never quite understood where that attitude comes from, as the student body is largely the same as one would find at any state school. It's not a rarefied private. However, the students and parents seem to have this idea that it is. That's the part that turned us off. My kids wanted to go to a school with kids who didn't have a chip on their shoulder and who were (by and large) down to earth.

Ha. If they went to an Ivy or private SLAC or Georgetown, etc.,,,,then they would see true wealth. Private jets, etc. Why are they snobby at UVA? I think that’s what turns people off. This oversized attitude for a state school.

While it is true about extreme wealth pockets at ivies, as we have two at different ivies, the corollary is that there is also more racial diversity and a higher percent of pell-grant recipients/low income, compared to UVA. Overall UVA does give a white-preppy cliquey aura that is not at ivies. Some seems to be the high percentage of NOVA and Central VA parents who all know each other and go to grounds various football weekends in groups. Ivies are not like that because the students come from all over the US and world.

There is more racial diversity at the ivies over UVA if by diversity you want a whole lot of Asians. Princeton admitted 5% black kids this year. 5%.
UVA is 12%.

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Anonymous wrote:It's such a prestigious school and a great, affordable education IF you can get in in-state. Why wouldn't every VA res shoot their shot ED unless they're hell bent on spending more money?

Ivies/T10/williams/amherst are better by a significant margin (peer group, undergrad resources, outcomes including carrer and grad/professional school) and most give better aid /have lower cost of attendance than UVA for the 180-250k HHI families. For top students UVA is a backup. UVA has admitted 99% of students who applied from the top 10% of our high school and 78% in the top 20%, years 2021-2025. It is a backup, a great backup as a T25 overall and T5public, but a backup nonetheless. Some at top strongly prefer William and Mary and do not apply to UVA. W&M is their backup to Ivies/WASP.

For a meaningful comparison, what is the admit rate for top 10% wrt Ivies/T10/williams/amherst?

8%-22% depending on the specific school, and on ED vs not, as well as exact GPA: there is clearly a higher percentage green checks for the GPAs at the very top val/sal range. Some of the top 10% ivy admits are hooked--about 1/4 in that group for those cycles were legacy/URM and most of the '21-25 years URM was a big hook. Recruited athletes are never from the top 10% for top schools, nor UVA.

What the ever-loving garbage are you spewing?

Recruited athletes are often also top 10% kids. At our private alone this year we had 3 HYP kids who were both top 10% kids AND recruited athletes.

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Anonymous wrote:It's such a prestigious school and a great, affordable education IF you can get in in-state. Why wouldn't every VA res shoot their shot ED unless they're hell bent on spending more money?

UVA is very average for engineering. DC picked University of Michigan over UVA as the engineering is much stronger there. Combined with a business minor from Ross, Umich was a much better fit and education.

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Anonymous wrote:It's such a prestigious school and a great, affordable education IF you can get in in-state. Why wouldn't every VA res shoot their shot ED unless they're hell bent on spending more money?

UVA is very average for engineering. DC picked University of Michigan over UVA as the engineering is much stronger there. Combined with a business minor from Ross, Umich was a much better fit and education.

VT is the much better in-state for engineering and a lot of STEM.

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Anonymous wrote:It's such a prestigious school and a great, affordable education IF you can get in in-state. Why wouldn't every VA res shoot their shot ED unless they're hell bent on spending more money?

UVA is very average for engineering. DC picked University of Michigan over UVA as the engineering is much stronger there. Combined with a business minor from Ross, Umich was a much better fit and education.

VT is the much better in-state for engineering and a lot of STEM.

While both Michigan and VT are higher ranked for undergraduate engineering than UVA, that doesn’t mean UVA’s program is “average.” It’s a strong program regardless. Besides, nobody really gives a shit where you get an engineering degree from. It’s the degree itself that matters not the school.

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Anonymous wrote:PP: how come UVA isn’t ranked higher?

It is ranked high. It's no. 24 for all universities in the U.S., and No. 4 public, behind UCLA, Cal, and Michigan. It's also the top public university producer of Rhodes Scholars, having produced 56 of them. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uvas-56th-rhodes-scholar-targets-2-oxford-degrees-medical-school.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's silly to suggest that every student in VA is an idiot for not applying to UVA ED. There are some students who have a legit shot at a higher ranked school and it makes more sense strategically to apply there ED. For others, there's no chance of getting in ED and throwing an ED application at UVA is wasting an ED application at a more realistic school.

But if you're at the sweet spot it probably does make sense to do it. UVA gets so much flack on this board and it makes no sense. The only explanation that I can give, and I hate to say it, is jealousy. We live in a competitive area. DCUM is an extremely competitive website. Parents frequenting the college forum on this website are even more competitive. Many live or die for their kids to get into a "name" college.

UVA is certainly a "name" college. It's certainly a hard admit. And once you're in, and in state, it's a bargain price. Combined, this makes it a very desirable school on DCUM. And that leads to jealousy.

Hoo boy. There's something I don't think you're "getting" and that is what many posters have already said. Their kids aren't at all interested in UVA in the first place. Perhaps they've visited and were turned off (us). A lot of our kids much prefer VT or WM to UVA - that's a concept that apparently really triggers UVA parents. You might even call it, jealousy.

You fed the OP troll exactly what they wanted - disparagement of UVA families.

+1. Notice how OP never popped his head back up after asking this very innocent, just-looking-for-feedback question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's silly to suggest that every student in VA is an idiot for not applying to UVA ED. There are some students who have a legit shot at a higher ranked school and it makes more sense strategically to apply there ED. For others, there's no chance of getting in ED and throwing an ED application at UVA is wasting an ED application at a more realistic school.

But if you're at the sweet spot it probably does make sense to do it. UVA gets so much flack on this board and it makes no sense. The only explanation that I can give, and I hate to say it, is jealousy. We live in a competitive area. DCUM is an extremely competitive website. Parents frequenting the college forum on this website are even more competitive. Many live or die for their kids to get into a "name" college.

UVA is certainly a "name" college. It's certainly a hard admit. And once you're in, and in state, it's a bargain price. Combined, this makes it a very desirable school on DCUM. And that leads to jealousy.

Hoo boy. There's something I don't think you're "getting" and that is what many posters have already said. Their kids aren't at all interested in UVA in the first place. Perhaps they've visited and were turned off (us). A lot of our kids much prefer VT or WM to UVA - that's a concept that apparently really triggers UVA parents. You might even call it, jealousy.

You fed the OP troll exactly what they wanted - disparagement of UVA families.

+1. Notice how OP never popped his head back up after asking this very innocent, just-looking-for-feedback question.

If you all think OP is a troll, why on earth haven't you reported them?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's silly to suggest that every student in VA is an idiot for not applying to UVA ED. There are some students who have a legit shot at a higher ranked school and it makes more sense strategically to apply there ED. For others, there's no chance of getting in ED and throwing an ED application at UVA is wasting an ED application at a more realistic school.

But if you're at the sweet spot it probably does make sense to do it. UVA gets so much flack on this board and it makes no sense. The only explanation that I can give, and I hate to say it, is jealousy. We live in a competitive area. DCUM is an extremely competitive website. Parents frequenting the college forum on this website are even more competitive. Many live or die for their kids to get into a "name" college.

UVA is certainly a "name" college. It's certainly a hard admit. And once you're in, and in state, it's a bargain price. Combined, this makes it a very desirable school on DCUM. And that leads to jealousy.

Hoo boy. There's something I don't think you're "getting" and that is what many posters have already said. Their kids aren't at all interested in UVA in the first place. Perhaps they've visited and were turned off (us). A lot of our kids much prefer VT or WM to UVA - that's a concept that apparently really triggers UVA parents. You might even call it, jealousy.

You fed the OP troll exactly what they wanted - disparagement of UVA families.

+1. Notice how OP never popped his head back up after asking this very innocent, just-looking-for-feedback question.

If you all think OP is a troll, why on earth haven't you reported them?

Who says we haven’t? Jeff isn’t heavy handed with deleting troll posts if he can’t be certain, which is difficult as IP addresses change and posters often use multiple devices (eg, phone, computer, etc).

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Anonymous wrote:It's such a prestigious school and a great, affordable education IF you can get in in-state. Why wouldn't every VA res shoot their shot ED unless they're hell bent on spending more money?

UVA is very average for engineering. DC picked University of Michigan over UVA as the engineering is much stronger there. Combined with a business minor from Ross, Umich was a much better fit and education.

VT is the much better in-state for engineering and a lot of STEM.

Omg I don’t have kids at either of these schools but you guys really need to get over this. Lol

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UVA Board allowed Trump to oust the President. Not a school I want my child going to anymore. We are both alums but my school disappointed me. Not everyone wants UVA for different reasons. That said, I loved my time there.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the image of white nationalists carrying torches is still on the mind of some people.

Why were they there again? Because they voted to take down the confederate statues in Charlottesville.

The white nationalists don't live in Charlottesville and they probably aren't going back now that the statues are gone.

But yet it aquiesced to Trump. Seems they do live in Charlottesville