What is it about UVA that makes people so gaga

[Anonymous]

Great school, good price. Everyone wants in (except perhaps for some self selected introverted types who favor William and Mary). Lots of UVA grads from the 1980s and 1990s will inevitably be facing serious disappointment as their legacy kids are rejected and the dreams of adding car decals and bragging to the McNeighbors give way to self soothing conversations about how up and coming Christopher Newport is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great school, good price. Everyone wants in (except perhaps for some self selected introverted types who favor William and Mary). Lots of UVA grads from the 1980s and 1990s will inevitably be facing serious disappointment as their legacy kids are rejected and the dreams of adding car decals and bragging to the McNeighbors give way to self soothing conversations about how up and coming Christopher Newport is.

Yet somehow William and Mary was rated tops for happiest students in Princeton Review.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great school, good price. Everyone wants in (except perhaps for some self selected introverted types who favor William and Mary). Lots of UVA grads from the 1980s and 1990s will inevitably be facing serious disappointment as their legacy kids are rejected and the dreams of adding car decals and bragging to the McNeighbors give way to self soothing conversations about how up and coming Christopher Newport is.

If they just let in legacies (which are actually admitted a significantly higher than average rate), they wouldn't be doing their job and the reputation would ultimately suffer. Very few from TJ for instance are likely legacies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great school, good price. Everyone wants in (except perhaps for some self selected introverted types who favor William and Mary). Lots of UVA grads from the 1980s and 1990s will inevitably be facing serious disappointment as their legacy kids are rejected and the dreams of adding car decals and bragging to the McNeighbors give way to self soothing conversations about how up and coming Christopher Newport is.

Yet somehow William and Mary was rated tops for happiest students in Princeton Review.

Happy nerds, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

You seem to have spent a lot of time thinking about UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was really turned off by the attitude presented at the UVA tour. Elitism without the chomps to back it up. She felt that they were trying to present everyone is an extrovert future leader. My DD wants to save the world through science, not policy.

She was accepted to UVA, Tech, W & M (and every other school she applied to except Cornell). She is going to Tech.

We had quite the opposite experience. Our tour guide was very down to earth and spoke to us about how even thought she wanted to get into UVA all her life had a really tough first year trying to find her people and told us how she ended up navigating friendships and finding a group that she could gel with. She spoke about how Greek life wasn’t all that important and that rush was only in second semester so that everyone got to get to know everyone else. I thought it was a realistic wonderful tour. Unlike the pretentious one we saw at UPenn among others. Our DD who had heard a lot of bad things about the culture actually ended up really liking the school and was excited to apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

That thing was a ticking time bomb, though. Drunk people on roofs. People traveling from far and wide to wreck UVA. It was finally done in by a U-Haul crash.

http://www.readthehook.com/81253/cover-fatal-roll-1982-fraternity-crash-still-affecting-lives

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lets be honest here. half the class at TJ will go there. why. Asians like the cheaper in-state tuition.

70 kids last hear from TJ. Among self reports, less than half that number this year. So, less than 10%.

[Anonymous]

Top 5 public college, top 30 overall. Affordable in-state. Pretty campus in a nice climate. Really is a terrific combo if the circumstances are right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 5 public college, top 30 overall. Affordable in-state. Pretty campus in a nice climate. Really is a terrific combo if the circumstances are right.

Try top 3 public and overall top 25

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top 5 public college, top 30 overall. Affordable in-state. Pretty campus in a nice climate. Really is a terrific combo if the circumstances are right.

Try top 3 public and overall top 25

and affordable in-state. I think thats the big one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

You seem to have spent a lot of time thinking about UVA.

Uh....yeah. I had relatives who lived in Charlottesville growing up....used to visit every summer as a kid. Several of them attended UVA. Also did some graduate work at The University after I graduated from JMU. So yeah.... I've spent a lifetime "thinking about it".....because I was connected to it in several significant ways. Thanks for your inquiring comment. And to the OP who commented about Easters being a "ticking time bomb": You're probably right. It got too big and too popular by the late 80's. All good things must come to an end.....but I was just glad to have experienced it. I also used to enjoy the antics of the pep band at football game halftimes.....and that ended as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

You seem to have spent a lot of time thinking about UVA.

Uh....yeah. I had relatives who lived in Charlottesville growing up....used to visit every summer as a kid. Several of them attended UVA. Also did some graduate work at The University after I graduated from JMU. So yeah.... I've spent a lifetime "thinking about it".....because I was connected to it in several significant ways. Thanks for your inquiring comment. And to the OP who commented about Easters being a "ticking time bomb": You're probably right. It got too big and too popular by the late 80's. All good things must come to an end.....but I was just glad to have experienced it. I also used to enjoy the antics of the pep band at football game halftimes.....and that ended as well.

I was at a football game where the pep band made fun of West Virginia. They went to far by some margin. I think that might have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

You seem to have spent a lot of time thinking about UVA.

Uh....yeah. I had relatives who lived in Charlottesville growing up....used to visit every summer as a kid. Several of them attended UVA. Also did some graduate work at The University after I graduated from JMU. So yeah.... I've spent a lifetime "thinking about it".....because I was connected to it in several significant ways. Thanks for your inquiring comment. And to the OP who commented about Easters being a "ticking time bomb": You're probably right. It got too big and too popular by the late 80's. All good things must come to an end.....but I was just glad to have experienced it. I also used to enjoy the antics of the pep band at football game halftimes.....and that ended as well.

I was at a football game where the pep band made fun of West Virginia. They went to far by some margin. I think that might have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

They went too far.