Is UVA's reputation declining?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Arizona State University over UVA. Said UVA is primarily Virginia residents and being from Virginia, wanted to escape.

Translation: your Kid did not get into UVA

Nope, they did. Not everybody holds UVA on a pedestal.

Well if they did and went to Arizona State instead then I’m sorry they’re idiots and so are you.

Why would someone want to escape Virginia residents? We may never know.

Sounds smart to leave actually.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. UVA is now, and has always been, a top 25 school, and one of the top 5 public schools in the country.

It used to be a t15 school and as of late is falling out of the t25.

If you are referring to the US news rankings, then you had simply have no idea what you’re talking about. Yes when the rankings first came out UVA was firmly inside the top 20, but at that time the rankings were strictly reputational rankings. Since then the formula has changed several times and taking many things into account, but if you look at UVA’s reputation ranking alone in US News - which is still one that a point among many in its formula - it’s still well within the top 20, and its overall US News ranking has been consistently in the mid 20s for years. There’s no evidence at all that it’s dropping.

These statistics are easily verifiable with a little bit of research. In other words, one of us knows what they’re talking about and the other one is talking out of their ass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. UVA is now, and has always been, a top 25 school, and one of the top 5 public schools in the country.

UVA is not alway a top 5 public school either. That varies based on the specific year and the ranking. Top 10 public is also even a maybe.

UVA is top 5 within Virginia.

+1 outside Virginia it is a forgotten and irrelevant school

47,000 out of state applicants this year (up 10% from 2024) did not forget about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Arizona State University over UVA. Said UVA is primarily Virginia residents and being from Virginia, wanted to escape.

Translation: your Kid did not get into UVA

Nope, they did. Not everybody holds UVA on a pedestal.

Last year Arizona State accepted 92% of its in-state applicants and nearly 90% of its out of state applicants. They let just about anybody in! If you are so foolish as to attend a school like that over a selective university then that’s on you not UVA

[Anonymous]

The one strange fact about where the Atlanta private school kids (Westminster thread) went to college was that 9 out of a class of 200 went to UVA.

It was the third highest matriculation after UGA and Ga Tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Arizona State University over UVA. Said UVA is primarily Virginia residents and being from Virginia, wanted to escape.

Translation: your Kid did not get into UVA

Nope, they did. Not everybody holds UVA on a pedestal.

Last year Arizona State accepted 92% of its in-state applicants and nearly 90% of its out of state applicants. They let just about anybody in! If you are so foolish as to attend a school like that over a selective university then that’s on you not UVA

And this is why UVA’s reputation is declining. They stand behind a moat shouting “go away! Go away! You can’t come in!” And then wonder why everyone is going somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Arizona State University over UVA. Said UVA is primarily Virginia residents and being from Virginia, wanted to escape.

Translation: your Kid did not get into UVA

Nope, they did. Not everybody holds UVA on a pedestal.

Last year Arizona State accepted 92% of its in-state applicants and nearly 90% of its out of state applicants. They let just about anybody in! If you are so foolish as to attend a school like that over a selective university then that’s on you not UVA

And this is why UVA’s reputation is declining. They stand behind a moat shouting “go away! Go away! You can’t come in!” And then wonder why everyone is going somewhere else.

This is nonsensical. It’s like the Yogi Berra quote “nobody goes there anymore…it’s too popular”.

You can’t have applications increasing and acceptance rates declining…and then claim “everyone is going somewhere else” and the reputation is declining.

[Anonymous]

UVA is still in the big 3 in Virginia but JMU and GMU are nipping at their heels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Arizona State University over UVA. Said UVA is primarily Virginia residents and being from Virginia, wanted to escape.

Translation: your Kid did not get into UVA

Nope, they did. Not everybody holds UVA on a pedestal.

Last year Arizona State accepted 92% of its in-state applicants and nearly 90% of its out of state applicants. They let just about anybody in! If you are so foolish as to attend a school like that over a selective university then that’s on you not UVA

And this is why UVA’s reputation is declining. They stand behind a moat shouting “go away! Go away! You can’t come in!” And then wonder why everyone is going somewhere else.

This is nonsensical. It’s like the Yogi Berra quote “nobody goes there anymore…it’s too popular”.

You can’t have applications increasing and acceptance rates declining…and then claim “everyone is going somewhere else” and the reputation is declining.

OP was noting that people talk about UVA less these days. And they do, because they’re going somewhere else. “Reputation” isn’t just how many children you turn away. It’s how many people think of you again after they grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Arizona State University over UVA. Said UVA is primarily Virginia residents and being from Virginia, wanted to escape.

Translation: your Kid did not get into UVA

Nope, they did. Not everybody holds UVA on a pedestal.

Last year Arizona State accepted 92% of its in-state applicants and nearly 90% of its out of state applicants. They let just about anybody in! If you are so foolish as to attend a school like that over a selective university then that’s on you not UVA

And this is why UVA’s reputation is declining. They stand behind a moat shouting “go away! Go away! You can’t come in!” And then wonder why everyone is going somewhere else.

This is nonsensical. It’s like the Yogi Berra quote “nobody goes there anymore…it’s too popular”.

You can’t have applications increasing and acceptance rates declining…and then claim “everyone is going somewhere else” and the reputation is declining.

OP was noting that people talk about UVA less these days. And they do, because they’re going somewhere else. “Reputation” isn’t just how many children you turn away. It’s how many people think of you again after they grow up.

Again…nonsensical. They still accept and matriculate the same number of kids…they just have more applying.

Not following your logic at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Arizona State University over UVA. Said UVA is primarily Virginia residents and being from Virginia, wanted to escape.

Translation: your Kid did not get into UVA

Nope, they did. Not everybody holds UVA on a pedestal.

Last year Arizona State accepted 92% of its in-state applicants and nearly 90% of its out of state applicants. They let just about anybody in! If you are so foolish as to attend a school like that over a selective university then that’s on you not UVA

And this is why UVA’s reputation is declining. They stand behind a moat shouting “go away! Go away! You can’t come in!” And then wonder why everyone is going somewhere else.

This is nonsensical. It’s like the Yogi Berra quote “nobody goes there anymore…it’s too popular”.

You can’t have applications increasing and acceptance rates declining…and then claim “everyone is going somewhere else” and the reputation is declining.

OP was noting that people talk about UVA less these days. And they do, because they’re going somewhere else. “Reputation” isn’t just how many children you turn away. It’s how many people think of you again after they grow up.

Again…nonsensical. They still accept and matriculate the same number of kids…they just have more applying.

Not following your logic at all.

When the state population is growing, but your school is staying the same size, it is losing ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. UVA is now, and has always been, a top 25 school, and one of the top 5 public schools in the country.

It used to be a t15 school and as of late is falling out of the t25.

If you are referring to the US news rankings, then you had simply have no idea what you’re talking about. Yes when the rankings first came out UVA was firmly inside the top 20, but at that time the rankings were strictly reputational rankings. Since then the formula has changed several times and taking many things into account, but if you look at UVA’s reputation ranking alone in US News - which is still one that a point among many in its formula - it’s still well within the top 20, and its overall US News ranking has been consistently in the mid 20s for years. There’s no evidence at all that it’s dropping.

These statistics are easily verifiable with a little bit of research. In other words, one of us knows what they’re talking about and the other one is talking out of their ass.

Seriously. It’s been ranked between 20 and 25 every year since 1997, with the exception of two years. Some of you should just fire up that old Google machine before commenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid went to Arizona State University over UVA. Said UVA is primarily Virginia residents and being from Virginia, wanted to escape.

Translation: your Kid did not get into UVA

Nope, they did. Not everybody holds UVA on a pedestal.

Last year Arizona State accepted 92% of its in-state applicants and nearly 90% of its out of state applicants. They let just about anybody in! If you are so foolish as to attend a school like that over a selective university then that’s on you not UVA

And this is why UVA’s reputation is declining. They stand behind a moat shouting “go away! Go away! You can’t come in!” And then wonder why everyone is going somewhere else.

This is nonsensical. It’s like the Yogi Berra quote “nobody goes there anymore…it’s too popular”.

You can’t have applications increasing and acceptance rates declining…and then claim “everyone is going somewhere else” and the reputation is declining.

OP was noting that people talk about UVA less these days. And they do, because they’re going somewhere else. “Reputation” isn’t just how many children you turn away. It’s how many people think of you again after they grow up.

Again…nonsensical. They still accept and matriculate the same number of kids…they just have more applying.

Not following your logic at all.

When the state population is growing, but your school is staying the same size, it is losing ground.

No, that makes no sense. Harvard’s undergrad enrollment has barely budged for decades, despite the US population and number of people going to college increasing substantially during that time. By your logic, this is evidence of Harvard losing ground.

Few top schools have kept their enrollment growth up with population growth. That’s not a reflection of their reputation.
DP.

[Anonymous]

I honestly don’t know if its reputation is declining, because my DC has stopped even considering it as a possibility. We live in NOVA and my DC has 4 A-s on their transcript. If your grades are not all As (no A-) it is almost impossible to get it. UVA is completely GPA driven, despite their claim of holistic admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. UVA is now, and has always been, a top 25 school, and one of the top 5 public schools in the country.

It used to be a t15 school and as of late is falling out of the t25.

If you are referring to the US news rankings, then you had simply have no idea what you’re talking about. Yes when the rankings first came out UVA was firmly inside the top 20, but at that time the rankings were strictly reputational rankings. Since then the formula has changed several times and taking many things into account, but if you look at UVA’s reputation ranking alone in US News - which is still one that a point among many in its formula - it’s still well within the top 20, and its overall US News ranking has been consistently in the mid 20s for years. There’s no evidence at all that it’s dropping.

These statistics are easily verifiable with a little bit of research. In other words, one of us knows what they’re talking about and the other one is talking out of their ass.

Seriously. It’s been ranked between 20 and 25 every year since 1997, with the exception of two years. Some of you should just fire up that old Google machine before commenting.

So...it hasn't been ranked between 20 and 25 every year. And it used to be ranked higher (t15 school).