U of Richmond fast becoming elite

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U Richmond offers a significant number of merit scholarship grants which have attracted lots of applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:The University of Richmond has an excellent reputation and is especially well regarded among people native to Virginia and North Carolina. What it lacks is the same level of national awareness enjoyed by some of the other schools listed above. I suspect most of the previous one-liners come from DMV transplants who don't know any better.

I've lived in VA for 30+ years. Richmond is at the bottom of that list. If you live in-state, it's hard to imagine why anyone would choose Richmond over multiple public options.

I’ve lived in Virginia since the 1980s. It doesn’t make me any more of an expert on all things Virginia any more than it does you.

The only VA school comparable to U of R is W & M.

And yet they are not comparable

and yet they are

Only in your mind

Accep Rate: WM 37% Richmond 30%
Undergrads WM 6,000 WM 3000
Both: liberal arts colleges
AVG SAT WM 1411 Richmon 1375
Demographics WM 14% AA, Richmond 48% AA ..... oh now i know where you are coming from... Lol, VA is so wildin

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Anonymous wrote:Selectivity can be a bit of a scam, depending on how well a given school markets and achieves high number of applications, and manages yield protection.

Selectivity has virtually nothing to do with the US News rankings

No, it doesn't but it certainly feeds into reputation and that is a big part of the rankings. These rankings are BS anyway.

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I am a UR graduate and I laughed at this. It is a good school but hardly elite. I have not encouraged either of my kids to apply.

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Anonymous wrote:The University of Richmond has an excellent reputation and is especially well regarded among people native to Virginia and North Carolina. What it lacks is the same level of national awareness enjoyed by some of the other schools listed above. I suspect most of the previous one-liners come from DMV transplants who don't know any better.

I've lived in VA for 30+ years. Richmond is at the bottom of that list. If you live in-state, it's hard to imagine why anyone would choose Richmond over multiple public options.

I’ve lived in Virginia since the 1980s. It doesn’t make me any more of an expert on all things Virginia any more than it does you.

The only VA school comparable to U of R is W & M.

And yet they are not comparable

and yet they are

Only in your mind

Accep Rate: WM 37% Richmond 30%
Undergrads WM 6,000 WM 3000
Both: liberal arts colleges
AVG SAT WM 1411 Richmon 1375
Demographics WM 14% AA, Richmond 48% AA ..... oh now i know where you are coming from... Lol, VA is so wildin

what's AA?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a UR graduate and I laughed at this. It is a good school but hardly elite. I have not encouraged either of my kids to apply.

OP said 'fast becoming elite' lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tied in this year’s US news with Wesleyan, Haverford, Barnard and Colgate and ahead of Colby and Bates.

I’ve always thought the latter two were overrated anyway. There’s no one at either who got into Bowdoin.

So, you think Colby and Bates are overrated but University of Richmond is "fast becoming elite." Not sure how you managed to come to that conclusion but it sure is interesting!
- signed, UR grad who thinks you are nuts

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Anonymous wrote:The University of Richmond has an excellent reputation and is especially well regarded among people native to Virginia and North Carolina. What it lacks is the same level of national awareness enjoyed by some of the other schools listed above. I suspect most of the previous one-liners come from DMV transplants who don't know any better.

I've lived in VA for 30+ years. Richmond is at the bottom of that list. If you live in-state, it's hard to imagine why anyone would choose Richmond over multiple public options.

I’ve lived in Virginia since the 1980s. It doesn’t make me any more of an expert on all things Virginia any more than it does you.

The only VA school comparable to U of R is W & M.

And yet they are not comparable

and yet they are

Only in your mind

Accep Rate: WM 37% Richmond 30%
Undergrads WM 6,000 WM 3000
Both: liberal arts colleges
AVG SAT WM 1411 Richmon 1375
Demographics WM 14% AA, Richmond 48% AA ..... oh now i know where you are coming from... Lol, VA is so wildin

The biggest reason they aren't comparable for Virginians is W&M is in state tuition and Richmond is not. They are more comparable in that sense for an OOS applicant.

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keep telling yourself that

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University of Richmond holds appeal in a lot of ways - beautiful campus, small but not "NESCAC small," strong merit aid, proximity to a decent sized city, mild climate, strong athletic programs (Division 1) and Greek life (which does still appeal to some people). Frankly, it is really more of a small university than a liberal arts college. It has grad programs and a law school. When they started in the rankings many years ago, it was under the category of regional universities. If they were classified under national universities they'd be nowhere close to becoming elite. For a school ranked as high as they are on this list, they don't rank terribly well for best undergraduate teaching (#41) - many of schools OP listed score much higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Tied in this year’s US news with Wesleyan, Haverford, Barnard and Colgate and ahead of Colby and Bates.

I’ve always thought the latter two were overrated anyway. There’s no one at either who got into Bowdoin.

Nowhere near elite but a very fine school.

I am not sure any LAC other than Williams, Amherst, Pomona and Swathmore should be considered elite.

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Anonymous wrote:University of Richmond holds appeal in a lot of ways - beautiful campus, small but not "NESCAC small," strong merit aid, proximity to a decent sized city, mild climate, strong athletic programs (Division 1) and Greek life (which does still appeal to some people). Frankly, it is really more of a small university than a liberal arts college. It has grad programs and a law school. When they started in the rankings many years ago, it was under the category of regional universities. If they were classified under national universities they'd be nowhere close to becoming elite. For a school ranked as high as they are on this list, they don't rank terribly well for best undergraduate teaching (#41) - many of schools OP listed score much higher.

U of Richmond has a beautiful campus and a large endowment on a per capita basis. Despite this, it has not historically been viewed as being on the same academic level as schools like Washington & Lee and Davidson.

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Love their president, good dude!

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Anonymous wrote:The University of Richmond has an excellent reputation and is especially well regarded among people native to Virginia and North Carolina. What it lacks is the same level of national awareness enjoyed by some of the other schools listed above. I suspect most of the previous one-liners come from DMV transplants who don't know any better.

I've lived in VA for 30+ years. Richmond is at the bottom of that list. If you live in-state, it's hard to imagine why anyone would choose Richmond over multiple public options.

I’ve lived in Virginia since the 1980s. It doesn’t make me any more of an expert on all things Virginia any more than it does you.

The only VA school comparable to U of R is W & M.

And yet they are not comparable

and yet they are

Only in your mind

Accep Rate: WM 37% Richmond 30%
Undergrads WM 6,000 WM 3000
Both: liberal arts colleges
AVG SAT WM 1411 Richmon 1375
Demographics WM 14% AA, Richmond 48% AA ..... oh now i know where you are coming from... Lol, VA is so wildin

what's AA?

I suspect they are talking about African American and referring to Williamsburg and Richmond rather than the enrollment. Not sure why they think that is relevant.

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Anonymous wrote:The University of Richmond has an excellent reputation and is especially well regarded among people native to Virginia and North Carolina. What it lacks is the same level of national awareness enjoyed by some of the other schools listed above. I suspect most of the previous one-liners come from DMV transplants who don't know any better.

I've lived in VA for 30+ years. Richmond is at the bottom of that list. If you live in-state, it's hard to imagine why anyone would choose Richmond over multiple public options.

I’ve lived in Virginia since the 1980s. It doesn’t make me any more of an expert on all things Virginia any more than it does you.

The only VA school comparable to U of R is W & M.

And yet they are not comparable

and yet they are

Only in your mind

Accep Rate: WM 37% Richmond 30%
Undergrads WM 6,000 WM 3000
Both: liberal arts colleges
AVG SAT WM 1411 Richmon 1375
Demographics WM 14% AA, Richmond 48% AA ..... oh now i know where you are coming from... Lol, VA is so wildin

If you are saying that UR students are 48% African American, you are just lying.

- Former Spider (who doesn't quite get the rest of the hate here - who gets this exercised about US News rankings?)