Would you take Tufts, Emory, Wash U over UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Um, no they're not. Take a look at the top DC law firms, for example, which are notorious for being school snobs. Their ranks are full of UVA grads -- and I mean undergrads, not law grads.

You do this as a hobby?

I worked in BigLaw.

All of it?

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Um, no they're not. Take a look at the top DC law firms, for example, which are notorious for being school snobs. Their ranks are full of UVA grads -- and I mean undergrads, not law grads.

You do this as a hobby?

I worked in BigLaw.

All of it?

You're betraying your ignorance. When you work in BigLaw for a few decades you tend to have a lot of contact with a lot of other BigLaw lawyers all over the country -- and world, for that matter. So, yea, I'm about as good of an authority of where BigLaw lawyers generally have gone to school as anyone. Certainly more than you.

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Nope. If you are OOS, Virginia is just as selective as those schools. And if you are in-state, it's generally assumed that a kid who does well at UVA could have gone anywhere but chose to stay in state based on economics.

If you graduate from UVA you could have just gone to community college for a year or two and transferred. Its a state college, a good one.. but not "prestigious".

Princeton accepts community college transfers. So does Notre Dame.

Rarely not as a practice live UVA does to keep their ranking up.

Rarely? My roommate and I were both community college transfers to UVA. It’s not uncommon at all. NoVA, Piedmont, and others send a bunch every year to UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Nope. If you are OOS, Virginia is just as selective as those schools. And if you are in-state, it's generally assumed that a kid who does well at UVA could have gone anywhere but chose to stay in state based on economics.

If you graduate from UVA you could have just gone to community college for a year or two and transferred. Its a state college, a good one.. but not "prestigious".

Princeton accepts community college transfers. So does Notre Dame.

Rarely not as a practice live UVA does to keep their ranking up.

That’s an overstatement. Princeton accepted THIRTEEN transfers total in 2018, after decades of not allowing ANY transfers.

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/05/09/princeton-offers-admission-13-students-reinstated-transfer-program

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Nope. If you are OOS, Virginia is just as selective as those schools. And if you are in-state, it's generally assumed that a kid who does well at UVA could have gone anywhere but chose to stay in state based on economics.

If you graduate from UVA you could have just gone to community college for a year or two and transferred. Its a state college, a good one.. but not "prestigious".

Princeton accepts community college transfers. So does Notre Dame.

Rarely not as a practice live UVA does to keep their ranking up.

Rarely? My roommate and I were both community college transfers to UVA. It’s not uncommon at all. NoVA, Piedmont, and others send a bunch every year to UVA.

HOW MANY STUDENTS FROM VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES DO YOU TAKE?
Nearly half of the 600 transfer students who enroll in the fall started their higher education in the Virginia Community College System.

https://admission.virginia.edu/transfer/faq

That’s a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Nope. If you are OOS, Virginia is just as selective as those schools. And if you are in-state, it's generally assumed that a kid who does well at UVA could have gone anywhere but chose to stay in state based on economics.

If you graduate from UVA you could have just gone to community college for a year or two and transferred. Its a state college, a good one.. but not "prestigious".

Princeton accepts community college transfers. So does Notre Dame.

Rarely not as a practice live UVA does to keep their ranking up.

Rarely? My roommate and I were both community college transfers to UVA. It’s not uncommon at all. NoVA, Piedmont, and others send a bunch every year to UVA.

Oh Lord - the poster was referring to Princeton not UVA. She said "live" when she meant "like." Not that hard to decipher, even for a community college grad.

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That UVA takes tons of transfers from community colleges is well known and doesn't mean that first year admissions aren't extremely competitive.

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Anonymous wrote:That UVA takes tons of transfers from community colleges is well known and doesn't mean that first year admissions aren't extremely competitive.

Point is, it’s a state school. Get it?

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Nope. If you are OOS, Virginia is just as selective as those schools. And if you are in-state, it's generally assumed that a kid who does well at UVA could have gone anywhere but chose to stay in state based on economics.

If you graduate from UVA you could have just gone to community college for a year or two and transferred. Its a state college, a good one.. but not "prestigious".

Princeton accepts community college transfers. So does Notre Dame.

Rarely not as a practice live UVA does to keep their ranking up.

Rarely? My roommate and I were both community college transfers to UVA. It’s not uncommon at all. NoVA, Piedmont, and others send a bunch every year to UVA.

Oh Lord - the poster was referring to Princeton not UVA. She said "live" when she meant "like." Not that hard to decipher, even for a community college grad.

Actually, I’m a UVA grad.

LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Nope. If you are OOS, Virginia is just as selective as those schools. And if you are in-state, it's generally assumed that a kid who does well at UVA could have gone anywhere but chose to stay in state based on economics.

If you graduate from UVA you could have just gone to community college for a year or two and transferred. Its a state college, a good one.. but not "prestigious".

Princeton accepts community college transfers. So does Notre Dame.

Rarely not as a practice live UVA does to keep their ranking up.

Rarely? My roommate and I were both community college transfers to UVA. It’s not uncommon at all. NoVA, Piedmont, and others send a bunch every year to UVA.

HOW MANY STUDENTS FROM VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES DO YOU TAKE?
Nearly half of the 600 transfer students who enroll in the fall started their higher education in the Virginia Community College System.

https://admission.virginia.edu/transfer/faq

That’s a lot.

So less than 300 a year into a school of 17,000 undergrads. 1.7 percent. Stop the presses! UVA is actually a community college!

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Anonymous wrote:That UVA takes tons of transfers from community colleges is well known and doesn't mean that first year admissions aren't extremely competitive.

Point is, it’s a state school. Get it?

On par with the Ivy League.

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Nope. If you are OOS, Virginia is just as selective as those schools. And if you are in-state, it's generally assumed that a kid who does well at UVA could have gone anywhere but chose to stay in state based on economics.

If you graduate from UVA you could have just gone to community college for a year or two and transferred. Its a state college, a good one.. but not "prestigious".

Princeton accepts community college transfers. So does Notre Dame.

Rarely not as a practice live UVA does to keep their ranking up.

Rarely? My roommate and I were both community college transfers to UVA. It’s not uncommon at all. NoVA, Piedmont, and others send a bunch every year to UVA.

HOW MANY STUDENTS FROM VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES DO YOU TAKE?
Nearly half of the 600 transfer students who enroll in the fall started their higher education in the Virginia Community College System.

https://admission.virginia.edu/transfer/faq

That’s a lot.

So less than 300 a year into a school of 17,000 undergrads. 1.7 percent. Stop the presses! UVA is actually a community college!

That’s 10% of each class. Yeah, it’s significant.

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Anonymous wrote:That UVA takes tons of transfers from community colleges is well known and doesn't mean that first year admissions aren't extremely competitive.

Point is, it’s a state school. Get it?

On par with the Ivy League.

Haha, nope.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC got into Tufts, Notre Dame and UVA. Didn’t pick any of these schools - picked GT instead and we are full pay and OOS. We left the decision to DC and zipped our mouths and kept our opinions to ourselves.

What's wrong with Georgia Tech? I assume engineering? It's every bit as good and probably better and everyone knows it. In any event, once you let him apply you were on the hook. You can't have a kid apply to a school you're not willing to send him to.

That's why they kept their mouths shut. It is ok to have a different opinion from your kid.

I am the GT kid parent. I am not saying it wasn’t difficult to zip it, it was but I couldn’t let DC go to college which DC was not 100% committed to - we didn’t want DC to always have that “what if”.

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Anonymous wrote:Those privates are not more prestigious than UVA, particularly in the DC area.

Lol.....of course they are.

Nope. If you are OOS, Virginia is just as selective as those schools. And if you are in-state, it's generally assumed that a kid who does well at UVA could have gone anywhere but chose to stay in state based on economics.

If you graduate from UVA you could have just gone to community college for a year or two and transferred. Its a state college, a good one.. but not "prestigious".

Princeton accepts community college transfers. So does Notre Dame.

Rarely not as a practice live UVA does to keep their ranking up.

Rarely? My roommate and I were both community college transfers to UVA. It’s not uncommon at all. NoVA, Piedmont, and others send a bunch every year to UVA.

HOW MANY STUDENTS FROM VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES DO YOU TAKE?
Nearly half of the 600 transfer students who enroll in the fall started their higher education in the Virginia Community College System.

https://admission.virginia.edu/transfer/faq

That’s a lot.

So less than 300 a year into a school of 17,000 undergrads. 1.7 percent. Stop the presses! UVA is actually a community college!

That’s 10% of each class. Yeah, it’s significant.

It's nowhere near ten percent of the undergraduate population. There are none in the first year class, few in the second (community college transfer typical have two years behind them) and less than 300 in the third and fourth year classes. 10 percent of 17,000 is 1700. Ten percent of the third and fourth year classes would be around 850. There are fewer than 600 community college transfers in the entire school. That's 3.4 percent.