UVA Culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the kids you didn't like in NOVA HS, all in one place, with a few kids of expats coming in from other parts of the US.

why, because they are the grinders, hyper competitive ones? What is meant by this?

It means PP or PP's kid didn't get into UVA is what it means.

[Anonymous]

Never stepped foot in a frat house.

Don’t assume a willingness to report sexual assault is a bad thing. 1 in 4 is a national stat. If some school has a dramatically lower number, that’s not saying it’s not happening. It’s saying it’s not being reported.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the kids you didn't like in NOVA HS, all in one place, with a few kids of expats coming in from other parts of the US.

But I thought no on from NOVA gets in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never stepped foot in a frat house.

Don’t assume a willingness to report sexual assault is a bad thing. 1 in 4 is a national stat. If some school has a dramatically lower number, that’s not saying it’s not happening. It’s saying it’s not being reported.

I don’t have an opinion on UVA but this post is a head scratcher. There are party schools and not party schools and everyone knows it. Sexual assault is fueled by binge drinking. Kids self select to schools with more or less of this culture depending what they’re looking for. Please get real.

[Anonymous]

Two of our daughters went to UVA from NOVA. Both were in sororities. They are smart, pretty, outgoing, and come from money. They made good friends at UVA but are generally better friends with their high school friends. Neither did much dating in college because they both thought the guys were generally douchebags. They both married someone unconnected to UVA and both now have good jobs of the type that “give back.” They’re not big fans of corporate America.

If you’d ask them, they’d agree that certain types do better at UVA than others and they’d acknowledge that - at least on the surface - they fit the type while they were there. Neither has any regrets for having attended, but neither has any great love for the school either. They are both practical, and it was a practical decision for both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is rapey af.

UVA's sexual assault survey/questionnaire had 25% of girls saying they'd been raped or that they'd been incapacitated and assaulted or threatened with rape (not sure what the wording was exactly) and W&M's survey had the percent of women who experienced rape/sexual assault at 4% for women. Both pre-covid so maybe data different now.

What are your sources?

[Anonymous]

People ask what the culture is like at UVA. Everything I understand from what I experienced in the 90s is that it hasn’t changed that much, to be honest.

It’s preppy, fratty, hard drinking, hard partying, competitive academically. Great reputation, although seen as a bit snobby.

Yes it is more diverse now, harder to get into too. Yes, that drinking and frat culture can be found at plenty of other schools. But it all still stands. Yes you can skip all of that and focus on your other activities or things to do, but you asked what the culture is like and I don’t want to sugarcoat it.

[Anonymous]

We toured just last week and the AO and tour guide said 1/3 of UVA students are Greek. I thought that was a high percentage for a state school.

[Anonymous]

It’s a large state school with smart kids. Little of everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two of our daughters went to UVA from NOVA. Both were in sororities. They are smart, pretty, outgoing, and come from money. They made good friends at UVA but are generally better friends with their high school friends. Neither did much dating in college because they both thought the guys were generally douchebags. They both married someone unconnected to UVA and both now have good jobs of the type that “give back.” They’re not big fans of corporate America.

If you’d ask them, they’d agree that certain types do better at UVA than others and they’d acknowledge that - at least on the surface - they fit the type while they were there. Neither has any regrets for having attended, but neither has any great love for the school either. They are both practical, and it was a practical decision for both.

Generalize much? Geez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two of our daughters went to UVA from NOVA. Both were in sororities. They are smart, pretty, outgoing, and come from money. They made good friends at UVA but are generally better friends with their high school friends. Neither did much dating in college because they both thought the guys were generally douchebags. They both married someone unconnected to UVA and both now have good jobs of the type that “give back.” They’re not big fans of corporate America.

If you’d ask them, they’d agree that certain types do better at UVA than others and they’d acknowledge that - at least on the surface - they fit the type while they were there. Neither has any regrets for having attended, but neither has any great love for the school either. They are both practical, and it was a practical decision for both.

Really amazing they met every guy at uva and hated them. Hard work to meet thousands of people! . This is an idiotic response. I’m sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear that UVA culture is hyper competitive. Not an academic stress culture like W&M but cutthroat socially. Is this true?

William and Mary= proper liberal arts college

UVA= labor-power state university. Despite its size, it’s only good as subjects which allow one to sell their labor-power: law and business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People ask what the culture is like at UVA. Everything I understand from what I experienced in the 90s is that it hasn’t changed that much, to be honest.

It’s preppy, fratty, hard drinking, hard partying, competitive academically. Great reputation, although seen as a bit snobby.

Yes it is more diverse now, harder to get into too. Yes, that drinking and frat culture can be found at plenty of other schools. But it all still stands. Yes you can skip all of that and focus on your other activities or things to do, but you asked what the culture is like and I don’t want to sugarcoat it.

What are your direct experiences or sources now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear that UVA culture is hyper competitive. Not an academic stress culture like W&M but cutthroat socially. Is this true?

William and Mary= proper liberal arts college

UVA= labor-power state university. Despite its size, it’s only good as subjects which allow one to sell their labor-power: law and business.

What a dumb thing to say. UVa still remains one of the top public schools in the country. It even got its 57th Rhodes Scholar recently.

William & Mary continues to drop in the rankings. It's not even Top 50 overall (or Top10 among the publics) anymore.

[Anonymous]

My DD is a second year URM student from FCPS. We are middle class for NOVA standards. She is in a sorority, studies hard, goes to “darties”, plays intramural sports, volunteers and goes to football and basketball games. She is dating a nice kid she met on campus, nothing serious. Yes, there is drinking going on in her social group, but I think they all figured out how to handle it their first semester. They also head to the libraries on Sundays and crank out their work. Most of her friends are from NOVA, but she also talks about the super wealthy kids from NE boarding schools. Some kids she knows from our hometown are not in the Greek system, and are doing just fine as well.

I think there is a place for every kind of kid at UVA, but they have to be go-getters, not a lot of hand-holding going on.