Declining UVA

[Anonymous]

choosing MIT over UVA.

[Anonymous]

DD declined UVA because she felt it was more of the same culture of Northern VA where we live. We visited the school three times and each time we saw someone she knew or had attended her high school years previously. She wanted out of VA. She also was admitted to other in states -VA Tech, George Mason, VCU. My dream was UVA - academics and it's close. We said she could go out of

She is attending a Midwest flagship school on a full ride. She is happy and loves the cold weather She has more of an appreciation of all of the things she has experienced in her life that she took for granted before.

[Anonymous]

Here is the tally:

William and Mary- 5
UNC- 3
Virginia Tech- 3
SLAC (unnamed)- 3
GA Tech Engineering- 2
Michigan- 2
Princeton- 2
Georgetown- 2
Georgia- 2
MIT, Purdue Engineering, Berkley, Penn, UCLA, IVY unnamed, possible UMD, Notre Dame, CMU, Midwest flagship full ride, VCU, and CNU- 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To each her own, but if I were in charge and couldn’t get my kid into UVA, W&M or Tech I’d go first with VCU, then with JMU maybe, and only then with CNU. VCU is a comprehensive university that offers just about everything and has a truly diverse student body and JMU is a lot of fun and has D1 sports. CNU has none of the above—and no one’s ever even heard of it.

That’s not how this works.

Why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD declined UVA because she felt it was more of the same culture of Northern VA where we live. We visited the school three times and each time we saw someone she knew or had attended her high school years previously. She wanted out of VA. She also was admitted to other in states -VA Tech, George Mason, VCU. My dream was UVA - academics and it's close. We said she could go out of

She is attending a Midwest flagship school on a full ride. She is happy and loves the cold weather She has more of an appreciation of all of the things she has experienced in her life that she took for granted before.

Well good for her but avoiding a better school because you see someone you know is really silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the tally:

William and Mary- 5
UNC- 3
Virginia Tech- 3
SLAC (unnamed)- 3
GA Tech Engineering- 2
Michigan- 2
Princeton- 2
Georgetown- 2
Georgia- 2
MIT, Purdue Engineering, Berkley, Penn, UCLA, IVY unnamed, possible UMD, Notre Dame, CMU, Midwest flagship full ride, VCU, and CNU- 1

You mean on this thread?

[Anonymous]

Mine went to BU over UVA, and is thriving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD declined UVA because she felt it was more of the same culture of Northern VA where we live. We visited the school three times and each time we saw someone she knew or had attended her high school years previously. She wanted out of VA. She also was admitted to other in states -VA Tech, George Mason, VCU. My dream was UVA - academics and it's close. We said she could go out of

She is attending a Midwest flagship school on a full ride. She is happy and loves the cold weather She has more of an appreciation of all of the things she has experienced in her life that she took for granted before.

Well good for her but avoiding a better school because you see someone you know is really silly.

PP - You might think it's silly because that is how YOU FEEL. DD didn't feel those were her people. I wasn't going to force her to attend. In-state she preferred George Mason. She was admitted to other out of state schools - U Chicago, Boston U., Georgia Tech but again when we visited her school she loved it. I get the added bonus of her having the saved 529 money for med school when the time comes so I can't complain. There are many reasons someone might reject a school and for her - she did not want to see the same people she went to high school with, played travel sports with or competed against in her sports etc. At her university she is in an honors program that is already providing her experience in a research lab and access to medical students as mentors. It was the right choice for her. Lots of paths to success that don't involve UVA. It was tough for her last spring when she told people (teachers, school counselor, peers) where she decided to go and they expressed their opinions, shock or disappointment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

“New data shows that at elite private colleges, the children of alumni, known as legacies, are in fact slightly more qualified than typical applicants”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/upshot/ivy-league-legacy-admissions.html

Applicants, not admits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD declined UVA because she felt it was more of the same culture of Northern VA where we live. We visited the school three times and each time we saw someone she knew or had attended her high school years previously. She wanted out of VA. She also was admitted to other in states -VA Tech, George Mason, VCU. My dream was UVA - academics and it's close. We said she could go out of

She is attending a Midwest flagship school on a full ride. She is happy and loves the cold weather She has more of an appreciation of all of the things she has experienced in her life that she took for granted before.

Well good for her but avoiding a better school because you see someone you know is really silly.

PP - You might think it's silly because that is how YOU FEEL. DD didn't feel those were her people. I wasn't going to force her to attend. In-state she preferred George Mason. She was admitted to other out of state schools - U Chicago, Boston U., Georgia Tech but again when we visited her school she loved it. I get the added bonus of her having the saved 529 money for med school when the time comes so I can't complain. There are many reasons someone might reject a school and for her - she did not want to see the same people she went to high school with, played travel sports with or competed against in her sports etc. At her university she is in an honors program that is already providing her experience in a research lab and access to medical students as mentors. It was the right choice for her. Lots of paths to success that don't involve UVA. It was tough for her last spring when she told people (teachers, school counselor, peers) where she decided to go and they expressed their opinions, shock or disappointment.

Which school is she attending?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:peer-reviewed? what is there to review? it’s simple tabulation from the colleges, just like the numbers released by each college in the cds regarding the middle sat range, demographics of students.

Go enroll in an elementary research methods course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD declined UVA because she felt it was more of the same culture of Northern VA where we live. We visited the school three times and each time we saw someone she knew or had attended her high school years previously. She wanted out of VA. She also was admitted to other in states -VA Tech, George Mason, VCU. My dream was UVA - academics and it's close. We said she could go out of

She is attending a Midwest flagship school on a full ride. She is happy and loves the cold weather She has more of an appreciation of all of the things she has experienced in her life that she took for granted before.

Well good for her but avoiding a better school because you see someone you know is really silly.

How arrogant are you, PP, that you think you get to decide or arbitrate what is "silly" Or best for someone else.

[Anonymous]

We didn’t get into UVA … lucky you were able to choose..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To each her own, but if I were in charge and couldn’t get my kid into UVA, W&M or Tech I’d go first with VCU, then with JMU maybe, and only then with CNU. VCU is a comprehensive university that offers just about everything and has a truly diverse student body and JMU is a lot of fun and has D1 sports. CNU has none of the above—and no one’s ever even heard of it.

That’s not how this works.

Why not?

I sense a bitter CNU alum in this thread. Personally I have no problem with someone choosing a no-name college over a top college for various reasons, but it’s off putting to be so combative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD declined UVA because she felt it was more of the same culture of Northern VA where we live. We visited the school three times and each time we saw someone she knew or had attended her high school years previously. She wanted out of VA. She also was admitted to other in states -VA Tech, George Mason, VCU. My dream was UVA - academics and it's close. We said she could go out of

She is attending a Midwest flagship school on a full ride. She is happy and loves the cold weather She has more of an appreciation of all of the things she has experienced in her life that she took for granted before.

Well good for her but avoiding a better school because you see someone you know is really silly.

How arrogant are you, PP, that you think you get to decide or arbitrate what is "silly" Or best for someone else.

It's just very immature thinking and something I would never let my kid take into account. Incoming classes at UVA are over 3000 students. No more than a couple dozen will enroll from a single high school and typically less. That means that at most fewer than one face in a hundred will be from your high school.