Overrated schools

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Anonymous wrote:They are pretty much all overrated because they are far too expensive.

Bingo

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Anonymous wrote:What school has you scratching your head when you see one of DC’s friends attend?

Northeastern, Colby, Rhodes
& mid tier state schools OOS (UGA, UTenn, Clemson, UC Irvine) when they got into William&Mary or VT

Colby is in the top 10% of LACs in the country. You don’t have to love the college, but why would that make you scratch your head?

Northeastern, Colby, Rhodes are usually picked by students who got into William and Mary and in some cases better LACs yet chose these schools, at full price, when they are not a good, objectively, on many measures.

Northeastern gets top tier students.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10

Colby is also in the top 50.
What's Rhodes?? Never heard of it.
PP is weird.

Rhodes is Amy Coney Barret's alma mater, so you can judge from that...

Over 50% acceptance rate.
I'll judge ftom that.

I don't really care for acceptance rates. Just a status symbol for how few you're willing to educate and how much you can game USNews.

You sound ignorant.
Acceptance rate doesn't affect USNews ranking.

However I care.
50% acceptance rate means 1 out of 2 can easily walk in. That affects quality of the student body a lot.
I want my smart kid surrounded by other smart kids.
It's very important.
It determines the level of classes and students learn from other students a lot.

I know what an acceptance rate is. I think your smart child can find smart people at many more places than you consider however. I went to a top college, and boy, for being the "smartest" people in the collegiate space, there sure were a bunch of dummies around. Your kid ultimately will decide who they hang out with.

Yes to this. My friend’s kid busted her rear to attend and T20 and was shocked at how dumb some of her classmates were. Legacy or donor kids.

Or just full pay with lots of tutoring and college prep help.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Do UVA boosters have any other metric to go by? 57 out of thousands upon thousands of graduates isn’t that impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Impressive!

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

West Point has more.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Tommy Lee Jones “I don’t care” gif

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Impressive!

Well, we all know that UVA has had ZERO Nobel Prize winning graduates in its long history.

Not impressive!

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Impressive!

Well, we all know that UVA has had ZERO Nobel Prize winning graduates in its long history.

Not impressive!

Sorry your kid didnt get in!

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Impressive!

Well, we all know that UVA has had ZERO Nobel Prize winning graduates in its long history.

Not impressive!

Sorry your kid didnt get in!

People need to learn a new gotcha on this thread than "your kid didn't get in!" Who cares?

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Impressive!

Well, we all know that UVA has had ZERO Nobel Prize winning graduates in its long history.

Not impressive!

You’d think with all of those Rhodes Scholars at least one graduate would have won the most prestigious intellectual award in the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Do UVA boosters have any other metric to go by? 57 out of thousands upon thousands of graduates isn’t that impressive.

The PP is the extremely tiresome UVA booster who always trots out this Rhodes business - as if it's in any way a metric that people use when choosing colleges. No.One.Cares.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Do UVA boosters have any other metric to go by? 57 out of thousands upon thousands of graduates isn’t that impressive.

The PP is the extremely tiresome UVA booster who always trots out this Rhodes business - as if it's in any way a metric that people use when choosing colleges. No.One.Cares.

The metric I use: one of the top schools in the nation, $40k a year, AWESOME!

DNGAF how many Rhodes / Nobels it has.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - is UVA overrated - in terms of outcomes - especially for STEM grads?

UVA has produced more Rhodes Scholars (57) than any other public institution in America

Do UVA boosters have any other metric to go by? 57 out of thousands upon thousands of graduates isn’t that impressive.

The PP is the extremely tiresome UVA booster who always trots out this Rhodes business - as if it's in any way a metric that people use when choosing colleges. No.One.Cares.

The metric I use: one of the top schools in the nation, $40k a year, AWESOME!

DNGAF how many Rhodes / Nobels it has.

A top school, as you assert it is, would have produced a Nobel winner.

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For STEM, especially engineering - UVA is a mixed bag.

Systems, CS and Electrical engineering students get into Amazon/Google - but thats not because of UVa - the kids are strong. Faculty and facilities is quite average.

For other programs such as Mechanical, etc - outcomes are quite bad - most go to grad school or local DC contractors. Location of UVa and lack of industries in Virginia hurts a lot.