Is uva a prestigious college?

[Anonymous]

To loaded and connected parents, UVA is a fun college which demonstrates the kids are pretty smart with high social IQs.

Places like Ivies, Stanford and UChicago are for try-hard strivers desperate to prove themselves, athletes, and under-represented minorities.

[Anonymous]

Nope

25 pages of arguing and piss poor world rankings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To loaded and connected parents, UVA is a fun college which demonstrates the kids are pretty smart with high social IQs.

Places like Ivies, Stanford and UChicago are for try-hard strivers desperate to prove themselves, athletes, and under-represented minorities.

Do you have sufficient self-awareness to be embarrassed by your stupidity and ignorance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To loaded and connected parents, UVA is a fun college which demonstrates the kids are pretty smart with high social IQs.

Places like Ivies, Stanford and UChicago are for try-hard strivers desperate to prove themselves, athletes, and under-represented minorities.

That is the kind of comment that turns people against UVA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So we're all agreed then -- it's better than U. Michigan (for undergrad)? .

I know this is meant humorously (since no one on this thread -- or perhaps entire site -- agrees on anything). But I'm just going to say seriously that they are close enough that there isn't a right answer. I didn't attend either, but know both quite well. I'd probably prefer UVA undergrad in general because it is closer in feel to what I would be looking for. But even with that viewpoint, I have to admit Michigan has great strengths if you are the right type of person. Ann Arbor is considered by many to be a great college town and it has Big 10 sports. As for academics, Ross at Michigan is a match every step of the way for McIntire, the engineering school at Michigan is much more recognized (even though I believe UVA engineering grads are getting good job opportunities these days. If you visit Michigan, you can get a good sense for the STEM powerhouse aspect of the school, particularly at the graduate and research level.

Anyway, people are fighting tooth and nail to claim superiority, but at the undergraduate level 1) you'd have to have a very compelling reason to choose to pay OOS tuition to one if you were in-state for the other and 2) if you were OOS for both, they really are close enough that it comes down to preference and fit.

You seem overinvested for someone who didn’t attend either school.

Perhaps, but the comments seem on the mark.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To loaded and connected parents, UVA is a fun college which demonstrates the kids are pretty smart with high social IQs.

Places like Ivies, Stanford and UChicago are for try-hard strivers desperate to prove themselves, athletes, and under-represented minorities.

That is the kind of comment that turns people against UVA.

I don't think it was posted by someone trying to boost for UVA. It's also untrue. It takes such a high GPA and test scores to get in to the top state schools that the "fun" "fratty" remarks are from people of another generation.

[Anonymous]

Why the uva obsession on dcum? It is a good school with pros and cons. A good value if you live in VA but if you live in another state I am not sure if it would be a top choice for most of the kids I know

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the uva obsession on dcum? It is a good school with pros and cons. A good value if you live in VA but if you live in another state I am not sure if it would be a top choice for most of the kids I know

Because DCUM started out...wait for it...for the DC area. “DC Urban Moms and Dad’s”?????!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Why the uva obsession on dcum? It is a good school with pros and cons. A good value if you live in VA but if you live in another state I am not sure if it would be a top choice for most of the kids I know

Because DCUM started out...wait for it...for the DC area. “DC Urban Moms and Dad’s”?????!!!!

And there are a lot of uva-obsessed moms in the area - it’s like a cult.

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Anonymous wrote:Why the uva obsession on dcum? It is a good school with pros and cons. A good value if you live in VA but if you live in another state I am not sure if it would be a top choice for most of the kids I know

Because DCUM started out...wait for it...for the DC area. “DC Urban Moms and Dad’s”?????!!!!

People still say “wait for it”?

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Anonymous wrote:Why the uva obsession on dcum? It is a good school with pros and cons. A good value if you live in VA but if you live in another state I am not sure if it would be a top choice for most of the kids I know

Because DCUM started out...wait for it...for the DC area. “DC Urban Moms and Dad’s”?????!!!!

And there are a lot of uva-obsessed moms in the area - it’s like a cult.

Er, it’s the state school. Is this really such a surprise? Go visit Minnesota, they love and obsess over the Univ. of Minnesota. CRAZY, I know!

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Anonymous wrote:Why the uva obsession on dcum? It is a good school with pros and cons. A good value if you live in VA but if you live in another state I am not sure if it would be a top choice for most of the kids I know

Because DCUM started out...wait for it...for the DC area. “DC Urban Moms and Dad’s”?????!!!!

And there are a lot of uva-obsessed moms in the area - it’s like a cult.

Er, it’s the state school. Is this really such a surprise? Go visit Minnesota, they love and obsess over the Univ. of Minnesota. CRAZY, I know!

Do they obsess over college football teams or the university itself?

This wasn't a thing for us up in the Northeast.

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Anonymous wrote:Why the uva obsession on dcum? It is a good school with pros and cons. A good value if you live in VA but if you live in another state I am not sure if it would be a top choice for most of the kids I know

Because DCUM started out...wait for it...for the DC area. “DC Urban Moms and Dad’s”?????!!!!

And there are a lot of uva-obsessed moms in the area - it’s like a cult.

Er, it’s the state school. Is this really such a surprise? Go visit Minnesota, they love and obsess over the Univ. of Minnesota. CRAZY, I know!

Do they obsess over college football teams or the university itself?

This wasn't a thing for us up in the Northeast.

NoVA =/= northeast. LOL!

[Anonymous]

Old school, prestigious, founded by the man who wrote our Declaration of Independence, was our third President, first Secretary of State, etc. Not just "another state school."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why the uva obsession on dcum? It is a good school with pros and cons. A good value if you live in VA but if you live in another state I am not sure if it would be a top choice for most of the kids I know

Because DCUM started out...wait for it...for the DC area. “DC Urban Moms and Dad’s”?????!!!!

I live in close in MD and don’t know any kids who went to uva but know several over The years who have attended Michigan, Berkeley UCLA Wisconsin etc