Does your student like/love UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this addresses your question, but the UVA grads I know might be perfectly nice and/or capable, but any of that is overshadowed by their cockyness. I mean, it's not Harvard, or even close. I feel like grads from better schools seem far less cocky. This gives me a negative impression, YMMV.

Same. I was at a party recently with a 40ish yo UVA married couple who kept going on and one about UVA and Thomas Jefferson and blah blah blah. I kept nodding out of politeness and the wife asked how I know the hosts. I said I went to college with the wife. Oops the husband works with her so they know we went to HYP. They quickly stopped bragging. 20 years out….who cares?

Sounds like a couple I met recently who went to UVA. Couldn't stop talking about UVA.

I never hear adults talking about where they went to college. It doesn't usually come up. Now that my kids are in college/applying to college it only comes up in that context.

You need to socialize with a different crowd.

+1. I've never heard ANYONE in the DCUM area brag on or be cocky about UVA. Why? because it is filled with Ivy types like the PP above who slammed the alleged UVA bragger about going to HYP. No one would set themselves up that way. All of this stuff about cockiness is made up by bashers or VA Tech rivals. Or students who know there is no point in applying (like my DC) because they don't have the stats. Or kids who apply but don't get in. It's tiring. I live in Charlottesville and have never seen this. Many hard-working UVA kids have waited on my table or served me in stores. I have never seen cockyness

Maybe you got used to it living in Charlottsville. UVA grads act like they graduated from Harvard when they graduated from UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this addresses your question, but the UVA grads I know might be perfectly nice and/or capable, but any of that is overshadowed by their cockyness. I mean, it's not Harvard, or even close. I feel like grads from better schools seem far less cocky. This gives me a negative impression, YMMV.

Same. I was at a party recently with a 40ish yo UVA married couple who kept going on and one about UVA and Thomas Jefferson and blah blah blah. I kept nodding out of politeness and the wife asked how I know the hosts. I said I went to college with the wife. Oops the husband works with her so they know we went to HYP. They quickly stopped bragging. 20 years out….who cares?

Sounds like a couple I met recently who went to UVA. Couldn't stop talking about UVA.

I never hear adults talking about where they went to college. It doesn't usually come up. Now that my kids are in college/applying to college it only comes up in that context.

You need to socialize with a different crowd.

+1. I've never heard ANYONE in the DCUM area brag on or be cocky about UVA. Why? because it is filled with Ivy types like the PP above who slammed the alleged UVA bragger about going to HYP. No one would set themselves up that way. All of this stuff about cockiness is made up by bashers or VA Tech rivals. Or students who know there is no point in applying (like my DC) because they don't have the stats. Or kids who apply but don't get in. It's tiring. I live in Charlottesville and have never seen this. Many hard-working UVA kids have waited on my table or served me in stores. I have never seen cockyness

Maybe you got used to it living in Charlottsville. UVA grads act like they graduated from Harvard when they graduated from UVA.

DP. Not true at all. THINK. How can 24,000 students (a year, including grad students) all be classified by a stereotype? It's an absurd allegation.

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this addresses your question, but the UVA grads I know might be perfectly nice and/or capable, but any of that is overshadowed by their cockyness. I mean, it's not Harvard, or even close. I feel like grads from better schools seem far less cocky. This gives me a negative impression, YMMV.

Same. I was at a party recently with a 40ish yo UVA married couple who kept going on and one about UVA and Thomas Jefferson and blah blah blah. I kept nodding out of politeness and the wife asked how I know the hosts. I said I went to college with the wife. Oops the husband works with her so they know we went to HYP. They quickly stopped bragging. 20 years out….who cares?

Sounds like a couple I met recently who went to UVA. Couldn't stop talking about UVA.

I never hear adults talking about where they went to college. It doesn't usually come up. Now that my kids are in college/applying to college it only comes up in that context.

You need to socialize with a different crowd.

+1. I've never heard ANYONE in the DCUM area brag on or be cocky about UVA. Why? because it is filled with Ivy types like the PP above who slammed the alleged UVA bragger about going to HYP. No one would set themselves up that way. All of this stuff about cockiness is made up by bashers or VA Tech rivals. Or students who know there is no point in applying (like my DC) because they don't have the stats. Or kids who apply but don't get in. It's tiring. I live in Charlottesville and have never seen this. Many hard-working UVA kids have waited on my table or served me in stores. I have never seen cockyness

Maybe you got used to it living in Charlottsville. UVA grads act like they graduated from Harvard when they graduated from UVA.

So true...

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.

That's an average for most HS kids these days unfortunately.

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.

That's an average for most HS kids these days unfortunately.

A 35/1510 is average? Now you’re just talking crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade infla

tion back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

No. UVA has significant grade inflation, like most colleges. Average undergraduate GPA was 3.1 in 1992 and is about 3.6 now.

https://thejeffersoncouncil.com/uva-grade-inflation-has-accelerated-since-2018/

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.

The prior posts were about the GPAs of undergraduates at UVA, not the high school GPA of matriculants. There has been significant grade inflation over time at both high schools and colleges in the U.S.

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.

The prior posts were about the GPAs of undergraduates at UVA, not the high school GPA of matriculants. There has been significant grade inflation over time at both high schools and colleges in the U.S.

The college grade inflation is because there is more significant sorting of students in many colleges--there used to be wider variation in all the schools--now there are narrower ability bands in many selective colleges so harder to make distinctions between students--and seems to be unfair that A quality work in one school would be C quality work in another etc.

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.

The prior posts were about the GPAs of undergraduates at UVA, not the high school GPA of matriculants. There has been significant grade inflation over time at both high schools and colleges in the U.S.

The college grade inflation is because there is more significant sorting of students in many colleges--there used to be wider variation in all the schools--now there are narrower ability bands in many selective colleges so harder to make distinctions between students--and seems to be unfair that A quality work in one school would be C quality work in another etc.

There is grade inflation across the board.

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.

The prior posts were about the GPAs of undergraduates at UVA, not the high school GPA of matriculants. There has been significant grade inflation over time at both high schools and colleges in the U.S.

The college grade inflation is because there is more significant sorting of students in many colleges--there used to be wider variation in all the schools--now there are narrower ability bands in many selective colleges so harder to make distinctions between students--and seems to be unfair that A quality work in one school would be C quality work in another etc.

Anyway you slice it, there is a massive grade inflation in HS and colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. However, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal. It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/. Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation. "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those.

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal. The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing. The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

Exactly the opposite.

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a meh quality students except for few.

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.

The prior posts were about the GPAs of undergraduates at UVA, not the high school GPA of matriculants. There has been significant grade inflation over time at both high schools and colleges in the U.S.

The college grade inflation is because there is more significant sorting of students in many colleges--there used to be wider variation in all the schools--now there are narrower ability bands in many selective colleges so harder to make distinctions between students--and seems to be unfair that A quality work in one school would be C quality work in another etc.

Anyway you slice it, there is a massive grade inflation in HS and colleges.

But we have no idea what that means because there is no benchmarking across schools or over time.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this addresses your question, but the UVA grads I know might be perfectly nice and/or capable, but any of that is overshadowed by their cockyness. I mean, it's not Harvard, or even close. I feel like grads from better schools seem far less cocky. This gives me a negative impression, YMMV.

Same. I was at a party recently with a 40ish yo UVA married couple who kept going on and one about UVA and Thomas Jefferson and blah blah blah. I kept nodding out of politeness and the wife asked how I know the hosts. I said I went to college with the wife. Oops the husband works with her so they know we went to HYP. They quickly stopped bragging. 20 years out….who cares?

Sounds like a couple I met recently who went to UVA. Couldn't stop talking about UVA.

I never hear adults talking about where they went to college. It doesn't usually come up. Now that my kids are in college/applying to college it only comes up in that context.

You need to socialize with a different crowd.

+1. I've never heard ANYONE in the DCUM area brag on or be cocky about UVA. Why? because it is filled with Ivy types like the PP above who slammed the alleged UVA bragger about going to HYP. No one would set themselves up that way. All of this stuff about cockiness is made up by bashers or VA Tech rivals. Or students who know there is no point in applying (like my DC) because they don't have the stats. Or kids who apply but don't get in. It's tiring. I live in Charlottesville and have never seen this. Many hard-working UVA kids have waited on my table or served me in stores. I have never seen cockyness

Maybe you got used to it living in Charlottsville. UVA grads act like they graduated from Harvard when they graduated from UVA.

Exactly