Is UVA significantly better than VT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michael Vick was a better QB than anyone I can recall coming out of UVA.

Doggonit, I think you might be onto something here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As I've seen written on so many college comment boards (not here): If you want a job that pays well, then you go to Virginia Tech.

What majors, though? Not every kid will major in CS or Engr

Yes. If early career pay is what you are interested in, you have to compare (if possible) major to major rather than school to school. Schools with a high percentage of engineering graduates, like Georgia Tech, for instance, have higher overall average pay than otherwise comparable schools with a lower percentage of engineering graduates. This is because engineers tend to have relatively high starting salaries. If you look at major to major, though, there may be no advantage at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michael Vick was a better QB than anyone I can recall coming out of UVA.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but you may be on to something.

[Anonymous]

UVA is clearly “better” for everything other than engineering, especially in the humanities, languages, and the social sciences, but I don’t think it matters all that much in the real word. And even though VT’s engineering programs are “better” I don’t think that matters either.

Except for engineering, though, you don’t see a lot of cross-admits choosing Tech over UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to UVA. UVA is a higher ranked school and considered more prestigious. But I don’t see any difference in terms of future success and opportunities. VT has a huge network of graduates doing great things.

My siblings all went to VT and are more professionally successful than me. But I was always smarter and got better grades. Lol!

Tell me you went to UVA, without telling me you went to UVA.

[Anonymous]

Pre-med?

Tech. Definitely.

I studied Immunology there. Tech is better for sciences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pre-med?

Tech. Definitely.

I studied Immunology there. Tech is better for sciences.

Well, unless you also studied at UVA, you don’t actually know that Tech is better. Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pre-med?

Tech. Definitely.

I studied Immunology there. Tech is better for sciences.

Well, unless you also studied at UVA, you don’t actually know that Tech is better. Right?

+1. This could be said about every one of the DCUM which college is better threads, and about the college rankings in general. The biggest single factor by a wide margin in the USNWR rankings is peer assessment, a subjective opinion college administrators have about other colleges. Hot take: they don’t know bupkis about 99% of the other colleges other than their last USNWR ranking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pre-med?

Tech. Definitely.

I studied Immunology there. Tech is better for sciences.

Well, unless you also studied at UVA, you don’t actually know that Tech is better. Right?

DP. Do you even hear yourself? All of you absurd UVA boosters claiming UVA is better - you haven’t attended both schools either. Spare us all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pre-med?

Tech. Definitely.

I studied Immunology there. Tech is better for sciences.

Well, unless you also studied at UVA, you don’t actually know that Tech is better. Right?

DP. Do you even hear yourself? All of you absurd UVA boosters claiming UVA is better - you haven’t attended both schools either. Spare us all.

Their point was valid, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pre-med?

Tech. Definitely.

I studied Immunology there. Tech is better for sciences.

Well, unless you also studied at UVA, you don’t actually know that Tech is better. Right?

DP. Do you even hear yourself? All of you absurd UVA boosters claiming UVA is better - you haven’t attended both schools either. Spare us all.

Their point was valid, though.

Yes - and it’s valid throughout this discussion.

[Anonymous]

I think this thread was started by a bored VirginiaTech student on a Tuesday night. UVA and VT are sports rivals that would also explain the sock-puppets go at the beginning of the thread

[Anonymous]

UVA is a horrible school founded by a racist slave owner. It is attended by privileged Greek people that have not worked or earned anything in their life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA is a horrible school founded by a racist slave owner. It is attended by privileged Greek people that have not worked or earned anything in their life.

YUP, definitely a VT student troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is a horrible school founded by a racist slave owner. It is attended by privileged Greek people that have not worked or earned anything in their life.

YUP, definitely a VT student troll.

Nope, just giving truth. UVA is a bunch of privileged white people parading as smart kids, useless southern bow tie wearing losers, you know this.