How is UVA overrated?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is overrated to parents whose kids couldn’t get it. It’s a way to make them fell better for the kids failure.

Not true, plenty of us just don’t prefer public schools.

This is incredibly ignorant. You probably couldn’t tell the difference between public & private colleges if your life depended on it.

Yeah, but their whole identity up to this point is tied to sending their kids to private schools so you can’t expect them to stop now.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheating

Second this. Certain demographic promotes cheating. It’s their way of living.

which demographic?

None. The people making these comments are morons and don’t know anything about how rampant cheating is in college across the board.

It’s rampant because of a certain demographic that is clogging up all of these schools. The boba crew is why we got here.

Studies over three decades have consistently found between 50 and 80% of college students admit to having cheated in college. There is no cheating “demographic.”

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on par with U of Florida. That is their closest peer.

UVA is far more similar to UNC.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s really just a state school that only really matters to people in the DMV.

Sure. That’s why it receives 10s of thousands of out of state applications per year.

So does auburn. Who cares?

My response was to the previous post. Idiot.

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If you are using USNWR as your standard, then either UVA is overrated or W&M is underrated. UVA and WM have almost identical GPA and SAT/ ACT scores at 25%/50%/75%. In some cases WM has higher stats. There used to be about 10 spots difference between the two in USNWR. But when USNWR started emphasizing things like FGLI/pell grant %, and stopped considering things like the quality of undergrad teaching, the spread went from 10 places to 30 places— in one year.

Maybe UVA is overrated by USNWR. Maybe WM is underrated. But, these school attract the same caliber students. And IMO the quality of undergrad teaching is very important for undergrad students. They should have a similar ranking. Up to you to decide if that ranking should be in the 20s, early 40s or mid 50s.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on par with U of Florida. That is their closest peer.

UVA is far more similar to UNC.

Nope, UNC is a tier above. Overall much closer to U of Florida.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are using USNWR as your standard, then either UVA is overrated or W&M is underrated. UVA and WM have almost identical GPA and SAT/ ACT scores at 25%/50%/75%. In some cases WM has higher stats. There used to be about 10 spots difference between the two in USNWR. But when USNWR started emphasizing things like FGLI/pell grant %, and stopped considering things like the quality of undergrad teaching, the spread went from 10 places to 30 places— in one year.

Maybe UVA is overrated by USNWR. Maybe WM is underrated. But, these school attract the same caliber students. And IMO the quality of undergrad teaching is very important for undergrad students. They should have a similar ranking. Up to you to decide if that ranking should be in the 20s, early 40s or mid 50s.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on par with U of Florida. That is their closest peer.

UVA is far more similar to UNC.

Nope, UNC is a tier above. Overall much closer to U of Florida.

NP.
Absolutely agree.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on par with U of Florida. That is their closest peer.

UVA is far more similar to UNC.

Nope, UNC is a tier above. Overall much closer to U of Florida.

Ok, this is ridiculous. You need to go outside and get some sunshine. UNC is not ranked higher, the stats of admitted students are not higher, the experience is not better, etc.

I have a kid admitted to UVA and UNC and we've been scrutinizing them for the past 3 weeks and UVA comes out ahead on pretty much every measure except for basketball.
I have no pre-determined alliance to UVA. I would actually love it if my kid decided on UNC (we're OOS and it's cheaper!!) but we can't find evidence that supports it as being a better school besides the rants of the UVA haters on DCUM. I've read everything I can, posted multiple times on College Confidential and Reddit, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on par with U of Florida. That is their closest peer.

UVA is far more similar to UNC.

Nope, UNC is a tier above. Overall much closer to U of Florida.

Congratulations. This just might be the stupidest thing I've ever right on this board. And that's saying something.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on par with U of Florida. That is their closest peer.

UVA is far more similar to UNC.

Nope, UNC is a tier above. Overall much closer to U of Florida.

Congratulations. This just might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on this board. And that's saying something.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on par with U of Florida. That is their closest peer.

UVA is far more similar to UNC.

Nope, UNC is a tier above. Overall much closer to U of Florida.

Yup.

Tier 1: Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, UNC
Tier 2: Florida, UVA, UT Austin, UCSB, etc.

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Poster here whose kid is deciding on UNC vs UVA.

Please give me evidence that shows that UNC is "a tier above" UVA.

I would welcome it.

I would like evidence not just "because I say so."

I have been pouring over the internet looking for concrete reasons to choose one school over the other.

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UNC > UVA

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Anonymous wrote:UNC > UVA

But why? What is better?