What colleges get the most hate on this board?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is UVA so maligned? Right now, that is our second top choice. Waiting on EA decisions.

Jealousy.

I just read an article about a girl at Langley High with a perfect ACT score and straight As. UVA is her first choice.

This!

It just means her parents are too poor to send her somewhere else.

Lol you’re bitter and on copium

+ sad.

You UVA boosters are pathetic. It is a southern state school for white middle class and ower class kids. Nothing more- nothing less.

UVA is the third or fourth best public university in the US depending upon which ranking service you read. And in the top 25 of all colleges and universities by USN&WR.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is UVA so maligned? Right now, that is our second top choice. Waiting on EA decisions.

Jealousy.

I just read an article about a girl at Langley High with a perfect ACT score and straight As. UVA is her first choice.

This!

It just means her parents are too poor to send her somewhere else.

Lol you’re bitter and on copium

+ sad.

You UVA boosters are pathetic. It is a southern state school for white middle class and ower class kids. Nothing more- nothing less.

UVA is the fourth best public university in the US and barely in the top 25 of all colleges and universities by USN&WR.

Fixed it for you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Get real. No school calls itself “The Harvard of ____”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

Those up for a little history might checkout Vanderbilt’s attempt in the 1950’s to start the Magnolia League, a counterpart to the Ivy League. The idea was for the two to play each other in sport. However, that idea ended when Vanderbilt beat Yale badly in a trial football game. The ML never took off because Duke wanted to keep its rivalry with UNC, and Rice and SMU wanted to maintain its ties to the Cotton Bowl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

Funny because Cornell students can't even get into Vanderbilt anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Get real. No school calls itself “The Harvard of ____”

Yeah, duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

Funny because Cornell students can't even get into Vanderbilt anymore.

Lol. This is not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

What ranking in 1963?

[Anonymous]

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