Is uva a prestigious college?

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Anonymous wrote:No, not nationally. It’s only popular in this area. None of my CA friends have even heard of it.

That says more about your friends than it does about UVA. It's the flagship of one of our 50 states. It's like saying you haven't heard of the University of Texas, or Michigan, or New Hampshire. You may not regard it highly or know much about it, but to not have heard of it means you must walk around with your head in a bag.

So true, but I'm not surprised. Californians, in general, are shockingly unaware of life outside California.

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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!

This. We have lived all over the country and have four in or through college. No one cares about UVA outside of Virginia. It's a good state school. Nothing more.

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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!

Yes, painfully aware of that!

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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.

Both. Minnesotans love “the U”.

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UVA is a Top 25 national university and the top rated public university outside of California. Only UCLA and Cal rank higher, barely. Of course, UVA is prestigious. There are more prestigious colleges, but not many.

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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.

Both. Minnesotans love “the U”.

I am from Minnesota. Minnesotans can go to Wisconsin schools for the in-state price and I would say that UW-Madison is more desirable for high schoolers in MN, for the most part. And Gopher football kind of sucks.

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UVA is highly respected for drinking and poor math skills.

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sorry your dc got rejected... you should really move on now as your bitter side is showing and you are pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:sorry your dc got rejected... you should really move on now as your bitter side is showing and you are pathetic.

Fell short in the drinking and poor math skills

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Anonymous wrote:sorry your dc got rejected... you should really move on now as your bitter side is showing and you are pathetic.

Fell short in the drinking and poor math skills

UVA grads can stop stop counting at 25 , which is where their school is ranked - they can hire others to do the math after that.

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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.

To me, the original comment sounds like they are saying UVA has smarter students than most schools, but if they aren't smarter, it isn't by much, and they are still more fun and have higher social IQs. There is a multi-level conceit in that statement that ticks people off.

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Among Top 25 schools, UVA is one of the few that still fosters "higher social IQs." I'd include Vanderbilt and USC too, but all of those schools seem to be trending in the same direction as Duke and UCLA have - away from a mix of academic and social life to shear academics.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA, especially certain grad programs, has been very well respected for decades. As nova has filled up with the children of brilliant people, it has become an extremely tough school to get into. Sure, one had to be a very solid and well rounded student in the early 1990s to be admitted. But it was NOTHING like it is today.

Is that really true? I remember acceptance rates in periods that were similar to today. Yield rates used to be higher, I believe. They keep changing SAT, so difficult to compare. Average scores are higher, but you have to adjust for the test changes. It was actually recentered up back in the 1990s because averages had gone down 100 points. And GPAs from high school reflect high school grade inflation.

Yes, it's true. Top 25% of ENROLLED (that's a lower stat than ADMITTED) 2017 students had a 4.44; median had a 4.29; bottom 25% had a 4.14 high school GPA. ACT top 25% is 33-35. SAT is 1500 for top 25%; 1400 for median and 1320 for bottom 25%. The statistics for the enrolled class of 2018 will be higher. http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp. Statistics for the ADMITTED class of 2022 is an accepted mean SAT of 1,431 and 93 percent ranking in the top 10 percent of their graduating high school class. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds. Go read up on UVA in college confidential, especially the stats on the students who were rejected or put on waitlist. The talent that is turned away is amazing. Va Tech also is going now through a surge of applications but it is behind UVA. It, too, is becoming much more difficult to get into.

Your numbers from SCHEV (which I agree is the most reputable source) aren't quite accurate. The 75 percentile for ENROLLED students is 1480, not 1500, and the 75th ACT composite is 33 -- not 35. The 25/75 range for the the SAT is 1320 to 1480 and the ACT is 29-33.

By comparison, the ranges for 2008 were 1240 to 1420.

No, I am correct, the SCHEV report itself has a typo. Go back to the SCHEV report and check. You will see the total should be 1500, not 1480.

It could be a typo, but that is unlikely. They are calculated separately. The 1480 would be the 50th percentile for the overall test. The math and verbal would be 50th percentile for those tests considered independently. They do not have to add to 1480, although they are usually pretty close. You can see this occurs at other points in the data sets.

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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.

To me, the original comment sounds like they are saying UVA has smarter students than most schools, but if they aren't smarter, it isn't by much, and they are still more fun and have higher social IQs. There is a multi-level conceit in that statement that ticks people off.

Social IQ = they drink a lot.

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Extremely low ranked in every world university ranking. So no.