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Is UVA's reputation declining?
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Anonymous
THIS. We live in NOVA and at our public HS, everyone wants to get into UVA. This year when a few of the incredibly smart kids did not get in.. one of the kids waitlisted made some really awful comments about the kids who did get in. It was pretty appalling. UVA is an amazing school... |
Anonymous
I agree on this. Many STEM students from OOS did not consider UVA for this reason. The other public schools mentioned above are very popular among STEM students. |
Anonymous
Michigan, North Carolina, Maryland, and Georgia Tech have higher median SATs per the CDS (Georgia Tech with 100% providing standardized scores!). William and Mary and Illinois are tied. The UCs no longer accept standardized tests. |
Anonymous
UVA hasn't really declined, but there are other schools that have stepped it up. Texas and Florida are others, along with the UCs, particularly beyond Berkeley and UCLA. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
A story about one student is pretty irrelevant and looks a bit desperate. |
Anonymous
57 students actually |
Anonymous
| About the same level as DeVry these days. |
Anonymous
The numbers of students who got a specific scholarship in the entire history of UVA doesn’t address the question of this thread. It is pretty irrelevant. |
Anonymous
Not true. The thread asks “is UVA’s reputation declining?” Consistently winning Rhodes Scholarships - the most prestigious award that an undergraduate can win and a good proxy for reputation - shows that it is not. |
Anonymous
| UMichigan's reputation is the one declining. When your President leaves so suddenly and your financial house is on fire, that's telling you something. |
Anonymous
| UVA will be undone when their business and law schools tank. |
Anonymous
Do you realize what a Rhodes Scholarship is? You get to study at Oxford, which has a great reputation. Having 57 over the entire history of UVA is pretty weak. Harvard recently had 10 in a single year, class of 2024. If anything, this shows the declining reputation of UVA. |
Anonymous
One of the most frustrating things about this forum is that so many posters are deliberately either comparative or obtuse. No one, including me is suggesting that UVA is Harvard. No one is Harvard. There is no other university in the country that has nearly as many Rhodes as Harvard. But beyond Harvard, these are the top 10 institutions, in ranked order, of Rhodes winners: Yale Princeton Stanford West Point Dartmouth Brown Virginia Chicago US Naval Academy MIT UVA continues to win Rhodes virtually every year, and often has more than one winner in a year. If its reputation were “declining” this wouldn’t be happening. |
Anonymous
| Haha “combative” not “comparative.” If only they were comparative. . . |