Why deny UVA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of the students who go to UVA (not all) are a snobbish lot, and their attitudes make people dislike them and the school. A lot of the snobby students are from Nova.

Because they've never left their bubbles. It's an insular and provincial public college. Nothing more.

From a bubble to a bubble to get back in the bubble from which they came. And the circle, it goes round and round....

[Anonymous]

UVA is prestigious for the DMV area because it’s close by and they want something to champion. It was not always this way. 20 years ago UVA was not hard to get into. 20 years ago NoVA public schools were not what they are today, either.

UVA is a great option for VA residents (I am) but it is not Ivy League. It’s almost comparable but not quite. In fact, all VA public universities used to be kinda basic (WM, VT, JMU, UVA, GMU), but with the increase in an educated population, local schools have had to improve and thus public universities have had to up their game.

UVA and all publics owe most of their cred to high achieving NoVA parents and their students.

[Anonymous]

You will get the same education at many other VA universities. UVA just may be more difficult to get in to. No point unless you’re in to name dropping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA is prestigious for the DMV area because it’s close by and they want something to champion. It was not always this way. 20 years ago UVA was not hard to get into.

No. UVA was in the top 25 in the nation in the 1980s and 1990s. It was nationally, not just locally, prestigious, and also hard to get into.

[Anonymous]

Nope, it really wasn’t, not for undergrad. Which is what this thread is about.

[Anonymous]

1986:

The average SAT score for this year's freshmen average of 1,224 (583 verbal, 641 math).

Even then that wasn’t a top tier SAT score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA is prestigious for the DMV area because it’s close by and they want something to champion. It was not always this way. 20 years ago UVA was not hard to get into. 20 years ago NoVA public schools were not what they are today, either.

UVA is a great option for VA residents (I am) but it is not Ivy League. It’s almost comparable but not quite. In fact, all VA public universities used to be kinda basic (WM, VT, JMU, UVA, GMU), but with the increase in an educated population, local schools have had to improve and thus public universities have had to up their game.

UVA and all publics owe most of their cred to high achieving NoVA parents and their students.

This is such total BS. We had a high achieving kid in one of the top NOVA high schools 20 years ago and the matriculation list for our kid’s graduating class school is indistinguishable from the class of 2019. The average SAT scores for the school (adjusted obviously) are barely any different and then - like now - only the top ten percent of the class had a prayer at UVA.

[Anonymous]

Why adjust the average SAT score? Because...you know why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why adjust the average SAT score? Because...you know why.

Current kids are dumber? It certainly doesn’t make them smarter than 20 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Average SAT at UVA was 1200 and some points in 1986. Is that still the standard? Seems really low! That score won’t get you in UVA today. So tell me again how it was always really hard to get into.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Average SAT at UVA was 1200 and some points in 1986. Is that still the standard? Seems really low! That score won’t get you in UVA today. So tell me again how it was always really hard to get into.

Because you’re an idiot who doesn’t understand that in 1987 the SAT adjusted the average score. A 1250 in 1986 placed you at the 94th percentile of all test takers. Today you need a 1350 for that. Google it.

[Anonymous]

And you’re an idiot who doesn’t understand hard numbers.

[Anonymous]

Basically if you went to UVA in 1980whatever you were not as smart as the kids there today and would most likely not get in. The fact that 1200whatever was 94th shows you how dumb kids used to be. Honestly. Or maybe there weren’t enough kids taking the SAT, so the average kid’s score was upped to a higher percentile. Fact is UVA was never and is not on par with Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Average SAT at UVA was 1200 and some points in 1986. Is that still the standard? Seems really low! That score won’t get you in UVA today. So tell me again how it was always really hard to get into.

If it wasn't hard to get into in the 1980s, how do you explain why it was ranked between 20 and 25 throughout the 80s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basically if you went to UVA in 1980whatever you were not as smart as the kids there today and would most likely not get in. The fact that 1200whatever was 94th shows you how dumb kids used to be. Honestly. Or maybe there weren’t enough kids taking the SAT, so the average kid’s score was upped to a higher percentile. Fact is UVA was never and is not on par with Ivies.

Wow. You really don’t get it. If today’s students took the same SAT that students took in the 1980s the average score would be much lower. The kids are not any smarter, the SAT is graded easier. I think you must be the only person on earth who doesn’t realize that. Or maybe you’re just trolling? I hope that’s it