What Schools are Worth Paying For Over UVA In-State Tuition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or geographically preferable/desirable schools like Georgetown or Northeastern

In fact, my kid chose Northeastern over UVA.

Received some scholarship/aid, and the cost was just little bit higher than UVA In-state

So you chose a fake USNWR gimmick school over one of our nation's most storied universities? I don't get it.

[Anonymous]

Nearly all the alternative names mentioned are extremely hard to get into, so most of them are not realistic choices for even the best of Virginia in-state students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or geographically preferable/desirable schools like Georgetown or Northeastern

In fact, my kid chose Northeastern over UVA.

Received some scholarship/aid, and the cost was just little bit higher than UVA In-state

So you chose a fake USNWR gimmick school over one of our nation's most storied universities? I don't get it.

+1 Northeastern's co-op is nice but the two schools are on different levels

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also make the case for Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, and Pomona. It is hard to replicate that level of high caliber intensity at most colleges.

Just Amherst and Williams

Swarthmore and Pomona are more selective than Amherst and Williams and both have better STEM programs and access too.

I get that Swat is highly ranked and academically rigorous but it doesn't seem like a desirable place to be at all. If a kid could get into Swat, seems like he or she would have a lot of other more compelling options as well.

[Anonymous]

OP what type of academics does your son have? Are they in the range for the top ivies and Stanford/MIT/Duke? Those schools could be worth the extra bags of money. Otherwise if UVA is looking like a good academic fit AND it's on the higher end of your son's school list, it's hard to think of a reason to look elsewhere unless your son really dislikes UVA.

[Anonymous]

Depends on their major 100% unless you're talking like Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Duke, Stanford, Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also make the case for Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, and Pomona. It is hard to replicate that level of high caliber intensity at most colleges.

Just Amherst and Williams

Swarthmore and Pomona are more selective than Amherst and Williams and both have better STEM programs and access too.

I get that Swat is highly ranked and academically rigorous but it doesn't seem like a desirable place to be at all. If a kid could get into Swat, seems like he or she would have a lot of other more compelling options as well.

Completely depends on your kid. Mine has aspirations to get a PhD and absolutely loved Swarthmore. It's a place for kids who are very academically focused and seeking an intellectual hothouse. Not for everyone, but I wouldn't impose your personal desires on OP's kid. Maybe OP's child knows she wants a doctorate, in which case there is arguably no better place than Swarthmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or geographically preferable/desirable schools like Georgetown or Northeastern

In fact, my kid chose Northeastern over UVA.

Received some scholarship/aid, and the cost was just little bit higher than UVA In-state

So you chose a fake USNWR gimmick school over one of our nation's most storied universities? I don't get it.

Northeastern beats UVA on most of the major metrics except for the business program.

On top of that it's in one of the best location compared to the middle of nowhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your child wants to pursue engineering, UVA is not a great choice. I can think of tons of schools - GA Tech, UIUC, Michigan, Purdue, UT, Wisconsin, northwestern. UVA is not even a top 25 program.

True, but most of those are overrated. I'd consider schools like MIT, CMU, UCB, Stanford, Princeton or Cornell. The rest is splitting hairs, especially for undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or geographically preferable/desirable schools like Georgetown or Northeastern

In fact, my kid chose Northeastern over UVA.

Received some scholarship/aid, and the cost was just little bit higher than UVA In-state

So you chose a fake USNWR gimmick school over one of our nation's most storied universities? I don't get it.

You are backward.
The fake USNWR gimmick ranked UVA higher than Northeastern when it beat UVA on most major metrics.
The the kid didn't choose it for the fake USNWR gimmick rank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or geographically preferable/desirable schools like Georgetown or Northeastern

In fact, my kid chose Northeastern over UVA.

Received some scholarship/aid, and the cost was just little bit higher than UVA In-state

So you chose a fake USNWR gimmick school over one of our nation's most storied universities? I don't get it.

Northeastern beats UVA on most of the major metrics except for the business program.

On top of that it's in one of the best location compared to the middle of nowhere

Like what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or geographically preferable/desirable schools like Georgetown or Northeastern

In fact, my kid chose Northeastern over UVA.

Received some scholarship/aid, and the cost was just little bit higher than UVA In-state

So you chose a fake USNWR gimmick school over one of our nation's most storied universities? I don't get it.

You are backward.
The fake USNWR gimmick ranked UVA higher than Northeastern when it beat UVA on most major metrics.
The the kid didn't choose it for the fake USNWR gimmick rank.

Like what? Number of Rhodes scholars, that kind of thing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a bizarre thread. I attended UNC from out of state and didn’t apply to UVA. My kid had no interest in applying to UVA, nor, as far as I know, did any of his friends. It’s a great school, and a good value in state, but it’s not for everyone. The assumption that it should be is just bizarre to me. I certainly wouldn’t expect most kids to have any interest in the tiny LAC my kid attends.

It's parochial thinking. People want to believe what they want to believe. On DCUM, if you dare to suggest UVA is not a quasi-Ivy, it's like you spat on all the gods.

It's people who realize that there are a large swath of schools that are roughly equivalent and that 40k+ a year is a lot of money. I'd let my kid turn down UVA for a tippy top school, but if my kid got into both and wanted to go to Cal or Michigan they'd have to really explain why that experience is worth 150k. I'm sure there are families with enough money that 150k is nothing, but to us that is a huge sum of money

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a bizarre thread. I attended UNC from out of state and didn’t apply to UVA. My kid had no interest in applying to UVA, nor, as far as I know, did any of his friends. It’s a great school, and a good value in state, but it’s not for everyone. The assumption that it should be is just bizarre to me. I certainly wouldn’t expect most kids to have any interest in the tiny LAC my kid attends.

It's parochial thinking. People want to believe what they want to believe. On DCUM, if you dare to suggest UVA is not a quasi-Ivy, it's like you spat on all the gods.

It's people who realize that there are a large swath of schools that are roughly equivalent and that 40k+ a year is a lot of money. I'd let my kid turn down UVA for a tippy top school, but if my kid got into both and wanted to go to Cal or Michigan they'd have to really explain why that experience is worth 150k. I'm sure there are families with enough money that 150k is nothing, but to us that is a huge sum of money

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ivies or geographically preferable/desirable schools like Georgetown or Northeastern

In fact, my kid chose Northeastern over UVA.

Received some scholarship/aid, and the cost was just little bit higher than UVA In-state

So you chose a fake USNWR gimmick school over one of our nation's most storied universities? I don't get it.

Northeastern beats UVA on most of the major metrics except for the business program.

On top of that it's in one of the best location compared to the middle of nowhere

Like what?

Like outcome, retention rate, student quality(based on test scores), etc.