What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?

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Anonymous wrote:We get it - your kid didn’t get in last Friday. Stop taking it out here. Stop resurrecting these old threads.

My kid was not interested in UVA so never applied.

ok you are resentful that he didn’t have the record. I understand. My Dc was never a contender but I’m happy to pay for TJ and UVA and all the other great schools in Virginia with my tax dollars. Would I have liked her to attend UVA? Sure, it’s at a great price point and a great education. But she didn’t have the record. You are just hurting those who got in.

That is the kind of response that ticks people off about UVA.

Let’s just be honest. It ticks people off because so many want to go, but obviously everyone can’t. The deepest frustration is for those students that appear to have the stats but get rejected. Typically, the cause of such denials is either one of the soft factors or their admission strategy. Too many really high stat kids want to use UVA as a fallback. But, increasingly, those days are over. Either commit or compete with the hoards. For lower stat kids, they just don’t qualify. But admitting such kids would change the very nature of the school. Can’t have it both ways. The continued rise of OOS applications affirms the school’s nationwide appeal. The number of VA applications is obviously limited by the number of reasonably qualified VA HS seniors, which does not change much year to year.

It ticks people off because it assumes everyone wants to go. You took a response that said "my kid was not interested and never applied" and responded with "OK you are resentful that he didn't have the record. I understand." It isn't difficult to see why that presumption rubs people the wrong way.

Maybe the response was not directed to you. Maybe the response kinda stands on its own. But mostly, if you and your kid don’t care about UVA, why are you in this conversation? Why do you need to declare yourself uninterested in UVA when no one asked? Believe me, UVA applicants are not trying to generate more interest in the school. No one is trying to convert you.

I commented because so many of the threads devolve into this endless morass. Someone mentions Pomona and it becomes "guess you didn't get into UVA".

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Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

Campus is certainly beautiful.

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1) Any school my kid didn't get into but REALLY wanted to attend.
2) Fallback schools that my kid didn't hope to attend but now attends. Now, my kid LOVES it and it's the BEST.

We all have our rationalizations.

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Anonymous wrote:All schools that went all online for COVID. They are just proving they are no better than phoenix.edu.

Boom.

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

no other options?

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

no other options?

Relatively easy to get into OOS with decent aid, beautiful campus and students can go into town an buy a pack of "spiked" edible gummies and trip on any number of epic trails less than 15 minutes away...

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Michigan and U. Chicago are excellent and anyone who says otherwise is biased against the midwest or jealous.

I have reason to believe that UNC, Emory, Vanderbilt and Georgetown are good schools; the grads I’ve worked with from there have just happened to underwhelming. With the UNC ones the most vanilla and insular in their understanding of the world, which I wouldn’t have expected.

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

Colorado is freaking gorgeous and booming. In contract to say Michigan, which is grey, cold and flat. And outside of Ann Arbor, the state is full of opioid overdoses and overall in steep decline (losing another congressional district this year).

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Anonymous wrote:Michigan and U. Chicago are excellent and anyone who says otherwise is biased against the midwest or jealous.

I have reason to believe that UNC, Emory, Vanderbilt and Georgetown are good schools; the grads I’ve worked with from there have just happened to underwhelming. With the UNC ones the most vanilla and insular in their understanding of the world, which I wouldn’t have expected.

The city of Chicago is alluring to Midwest kids, but to coastal kids it's nothing special and its middle of flyover country location is super annoying. Plus crime and brutal weather. If you're a Midwest kid who dreams of living in Chicago and working there after college, it doesn't get much better than U. Chicago. But if you have no ties to the Midwest and no interest in working in Chicago after college, easy to see how it wouldn't be at the top of your list and you could even say it's overrated.

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Anonymous wrote:Michigan and U. Chicago are excellent and anyone who says otherwise is biased against the midwest or jealous.

I have reason to believe that UNC, Emory, Vanderbilt and Georgetown are good schools; the grads I’ve worked with from there have just happened to underwhelming. With the UNC ones the most vanilla and insular in their understanding of the world, which I wouldn’t have expected.

The city of Chicago is alluring to Midwest kids, but to coastal kids it's nothing special and its middle of flyover country location is super annoying. Plus crime and brutal weather. If you're a Midwest kid who dreams of living in Chicago and working there after college, it doesn't get much better than U. Chicago. But if you have no ties to the Midwest and no interest in working in Chicago after college, easy to see how it wouldn't be at the top of your list and you could even say it's overrated.

Chicago is not in the "middle of flyover country." Have you looked at a map?

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

Colorado is freaking gorgeous and booming. In contract to say Michigan, which is grey, cold and flat. And outside of Ann Arbor, the state is full of opioid overdoses and overall in steep decline (losing another congressional district this year).

OK, but MI has beaches, and it has skiing, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

Colorado is freaking gorgeous and booming. In contract to say Michigan, which is grey, cold and flat. And outside of Ann Arbor, the state is full of opioid overdoses and overall in steep decline (losing another congressional district this year).

OK, but MI has beaches, and it has skiing, too.

There are no beaches anywhere near Ann Arbor and the skiing in Michigan is a joke (and several hours north of Ann Arbor at that). Boulder >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ann Arbor

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

Colorado is freaking gorgeous and booming. In contract to say Michigan, which is grey, cold and flat. And outside of Ann Arbor, the state is full of opioid overdoses and overall in steep decline (losing another congressional district this year).

OK, but MI has beaches, and it has skiing, too.

I'm hoping this is sarcasm

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Anonymous wrote:Gotta say, I still don’t understand why CU Boulder was such a popular choice among kids my dd’s age. Don’t get me wrong the campus is beautiful and the idea of being in CO is appealing to a wide range of people for sure but paying almost $40k for the privilege I don’t get.

Colorado is freaking gorgeous and booming. In contract to say Michigan, which is grey, cold and flat. And outside of Ann Arbor, the state is full of opioid overdoses and overall in steep decline (losing another congressional district this year).

This. The old joke is that no one who moves to California ever comes back, but I've never met anyone who has moved to Colorado and voluntarily moved back east. It's a great state with tons to do and has a booming economy