Does University of Richmond have any national recognition?

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Anonymous wrote:DD, rising junior, is determined to go to a college with an urban campus. I'd love to fine a college that's as safe as an urban campus could be. Any ideas?

Georgetown. Boston university. Tufts sort of. Brown. Georgia tech. Northwestern. U of Minnesota.

Vanderbilt Columbia U of Wash U of Minnesota Northwestern Chicago loyola Chicago Rush U Baylor U of Denver

Cmon pp. this is not hard

SMU

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Anonymous wrote:We recently moved to Richmond - has a great rep - folks I have met who went there are very often from NY/NJ/CT but they stay...

Has a good reputation. Kids around here shoot for UVA or Wm and Mary first. Richmond offers fantastic scholarships for instate kids who are really strong ( TJ/Maggie Walker kids)

Nothing against Richmond, but TJ kids are NOT enrolling there.

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Anonymous wrote:DD, rising junior, is determined to go to a college with an urban campus. I'd love to fine a college that's as safe as an urban campus could be. Any ideas?

Georgetown. Boston university. Tufts sort of. Brown. Georgia tech. Northwestern. U of Minnesota.

Vanderbilt Columbia U of Wash U of Minnesota Northwestern Chicago loyola Chicago Rush U Baylor U of Denver

Cmon pp. this is not hard

Come on people, this is a thread about Richmond. Start a new thread.

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No

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Anonymous wrote:DD, rising junior, is determined to go to a college with an urban campus. I'd love to fine a college that's as safe as an urban campus could be. Any ideas?

Northeastern.

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Look, you most likely know when they are coming back. So just be prepared and have make-up on this time. See if they notice.

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M. I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school. You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition. Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?

Acceptance rate is not selectivity. Uof R is a well regarded school, but they accept a slightly lower tier of student, comparing within high schools for relevance, than UVA and WM, as far as scores, course rigor. UofR is slightly less selective than W&L, but W&L often takes students who do not get into UVA , so it is not too competitive either. Davidson/Wellesley/Bowdoin are more well regRded and more selective than UofR and W&L, yet that group is a notch under the top5 LACs. UofR is considered like a Colby in the Northeast: good school but not close to elite.

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M. I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school. You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition. Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?

Acceptance rate is not selectivity. Uof R is a well regarded school, but they accept a slightly lower tier of student, comparing within high schools for relevance, than UVA and WM, as far as scores, course rigor. UofR is slightly less selective than W&L, but W&L often takes students who do not get into UVA , so it is not too competitive either. Davidson/Wellesley/Bowdoin are more well regRded and more selective than UofR and W&L, yet that group is a notch under the top5 LACs. UofR is considered like a Colby in the Northeast: good school but not close to elite.

Acceptance rate isn’t selectively but your opinion is?

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I grew up in Michigan, Illinois, & Massachusetts, & was well aware of it. It was known for its beautiful campus, Spider mascot, & Div. 1 basketball team.

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M. I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school. You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition. Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?

Acceptance rate is not selectivity. Uof R is a well regarded school, but they accept a slightly lower tier of student, comparing within high schools for relevance, than UVA and WM, as far as scores, course rigor. UofR is slightly less selective than W&L, but W&L often takes students who do not get into UVA , so it is not too competitive either. Davidson/Wellesley/Bowdoin are more well regRded and more selective than UofR and W&L, yet that group is a notch under the top5 LACs. UofR is considered like a Colby in the Northeast: good school but not close to elite.

Davidson is in no way more selective or well regarded than W&L.

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The brand for Richmond is like the University of Scranton or Dickinson, no better, no worse.

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M. I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school. You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition. Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?

Acceptance rate is not selectivity. Uof R is a well regarded school, but they accept a slightly lower tier of student, comparing within high schools for relevance, than UVA and WM, as far as scores, course rigor. UofR is slightly less selective than W&L, but W&L often takes students who do not get into UVA , so it is not too competitive either. Davidson/Wellesley/Bowdoin are more well regRded and more selective than UofR and W&L, yet that group is a notch under the top5 LACs. UofR is considered like a Colby in the Northeast: good school but not close to elite.

Davidson is in no way more selective or well regarded than W&L.

Class of 2027 admit rate for W&L = 17.36%
Class of 2027 admit rate for Davidson = 14.48%
Neither has officially reported admission rates for class of 2028, but Davidson announced a rate of approx. 12.5% at admitted students day.
Source: https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/
Agree with you on the well regarded front; that is much more subjective. They are very different schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M. I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school. You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition. Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?

Acceptance rate is not selectivity. Uof R is a well regarded school, but they accept a slightly lower tier of student, comparing within high schools for relevance, than UVA and WM, as far as scores, course rigor. UofR is slightly less selective than W&L, but W&L often takes students who do not get into UVA , so it is not too competitive either. Davidson/Wellesley/Bowdoin are more well regRded and more selective than UofR and W&L, yet that group is a notch under the top5 LACs. UofR is considered like a Colby in the Northeast: good school but not close to elite.

Davidson is in no way more selective or well regarded than W&L.

Class of 2027 admit rate for W&L = 17.36%
Class of 2027 admit rate for Davidson = 14.48%
Neither has officially reported admission rates for class of 2028, but Davidson announced a rate of approx. 12.5% at admitted students day.
Source: https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/
Agree with you on the well regarded front; that is much more subjective. They are very different schools.

Compare stats from CDS.

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Anonymous wrote:The brand for Richmond is like the University of Scranton or Dickinson, no better, no worse.

Scranton!

This makes me chuckle. Richmond is really full of itself, I toured recently. They would be horrified at those comparisons. W&L is another college that is full of itself. Both are intent on asserting their selectivity. W&L even called itself a little Ivy on our tour!!

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to find out that University of Richmond is about as difficult to get into as UVA or W&M. I'm a life long VA resident, and I've barely heard of the school. You would think a school that's so selective would have decent name recognition. Can anyone not originally from VA offer any insight as to how it's regarded?

I'm curious how you arrived at this conclusion. Do you have a cite? U of R is called only "moderately selective" whereas UVA and W&M are both "highly selective". Schev's report on GPAs has both UVA and W&M way ahead of UOR: weighted gpas at at UVA at the 75th percentile at a 4.51 and 4.53 for W&M. U0R's is only a weighted 3.95. UoR does not attract the same caliber of student as does W&M or UVA

Not the OP but you can simply google this

UVA acceptance rate - 18.7%
W&M acceptance rate - 33.5%
Richmond acceptance rate - 24.4%

not really comparable, closest is between UVA and Richmond

Stats of enrolled is a better indicator in my opinion. SCHEV should have data.

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+1 pre-TO stats of enrolled!