UVA saw one of the smallest increases in applicants this year

[Anonymous]

Wrong to say the murders had nothing to do with the school: the victims were UVA students, they were abducted/killed from the school's college town, one of the murderers was a UVA nurse and another was UVA Lacrosse player.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your rejection or your kid’s rejection still sting, OP? Nice try.

Lol.....do you even realize how stupid you sound? Just another uva loser.......

Not the PP, but you sound like the loser. It's not a stupid comment at all. Lots of students and parents of students who didn't get into their top choice university slam it here after the fact. There are many unhappy NoVA parents right now whose kids didn't get into UVA last week. And, if it's not the bitter parents or students themselves, it's the VT kids who like to take punches at UVA since they have been rivals forever.

Oh, please. VT is one of the schools that is used as a punching bag here on DCUM - probably mostly by UVA parents/students/alumni.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your rejection or your kid’s rejection still sting, OP? Nice try.

Lol.....do you even realize how stupid you sound? Just another uva loser.......

Not the PP, but you sound like the loser. It's not a stupid comment at all. Lots of students and parents of students who didn't get into their top choice university slam it here after the fact. There are many unhappy NoVA parents right now whose kids didn't get into UVA last week. And, if it's not the bitter parents or students themselves, it's the VT kids who like to take punches at UVA since they have been rivals forever.

Oh, please. VT is one of the schools that is used as a punching bag here on DCUM - probably mostly by UVA parents/students/alumni.

But they like to troll here after hours for fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wrong to say the murders had nothing to do with the school: the victims were UVA students, they were abducted/killed from the school's college town, one of the murderers was a UVA nurse and another was UVA Lacrosse player.

Uh, and neither happened on campus. One woman was out alone on the mall and looked inebriated and left with a man. The other was participating on the mall against the alt.right protest. She wasn't even a UVA student. There are 23,000 students at UVA. Two incidences over a period of what, four or five years? Out of 120,000 students? That's a pretty amazing safety record. Every single college has its horror story. Look at this Wash & Lee accident in which a woman was killed and two seriously injured. http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/lawsuits-settled-in-suv-crash-following-w-l-fraternity-party/article_f99ebae7-e984-5d4d-8f02-ef1caf25b479.html. My own college has some incident happen almost every year. Two men were murdered during an alcohol-infused frat. incident. It didn't receive national attention but if happened off-campus, in a car, with alcohol involved. I don't blame the College. It was the students' own stupid choices that led to the deaths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your rejection or your kid’s rejection still sting, OP? Nice try.

+1000. This happens on DCUM every year after the RD decisions come out. Parents and students are angry so they try to drum up some issues and post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So this is a one time thing, right? Nothing to be concerned over regarding reputation?

Unfortunately I think this may continue. The push for STEM over the last decade plus is leading people to other schools. A lot of kids and parents don’t want s school with frats. The Rolling Stone debacle did not help. A number of high profile murders and crimes in Charlottesville give concern. The basketball team was an exciting ride while it lasted, but people seemed really happy when UVa lost. My kids don’t want to go there.

- UVa grad

Not to mention using state resources, such as the Rotunda, to run what is essentially and elite prive university.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From what I hear from other parents, there has been less talk/interest in UVA; so I can believe that application growth rate is lower then other colleges. Some points that parents make are: [b]the lack of prestige in STEM at UVA compared to VT and even GMU; the dorms are old and unappealing; a UVA degree does not seem impressive outside of UVA alums. We have not visited the campus yet but it's on our list.

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All wrong. Go read the sobbing of the rejected students on College Confidential in the UVA EA 2022 results and UVA class of 2022 RD results. STEM is doing just fine, thank you very much. The old dorms are being redone the moment students leave for the summer. The new ones look like hotel rooms. The new dorms been up and running for 3 years so I don't know what you are talking about. No one compared STEM at UVA to GMU. A UVA degree is recognized worldwide and in some rankings no. 1 amongst public universities in the United States, always ahead of Michigan. (and it's law school is no. 5 - 7 depending on source and year). It's been no. 1 ahead of UCLA and Berkeley recently. Here it is no. 2. https://news.virginia.edu/content/among-nations-elite-us-news-gives-uva-no-2-public-university-ranking

So what is your real reason for bashing here?

My husband, who hires engineers all the time, can attest to this. Sorry, but UVa STEM education does not have as great of a reputation as the alumni think it does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people are tired of the UVA snobs

What are you talking about. Specifically? I have a second year at UVA. I have not seen any snobbery. DC's friends are the most down-to-earth lovely young adults that I've ever met.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So this is a one time thing, right? Nothing to be concerned over regarding reputation?

Unfortunately I think this may continue. The push for STEM over the last decade plus is leading people to other schools. A lot of kids and parents don’t want s school with frats. The Rolling Stone debacle did not help. A number of high profile murders and crimes in Charlottesville give concern. The basketball team was an exciting ride while it lasted, but people seemed really happy when UVa lost. My kids don’t want to go there.

- UVa grad

Not to mention using state resources, such as the Rotunda, to run what is essentially and elite prive university.

UVA receives only 8% of its operating fees from the Commonwealth of Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From what I hear from other parents, there has been less talk/interest in UVA; so I can believe that application growth rate is lower then other colleges. Some points that parents make are: [b]the lack of prestige in STEM at UVA compared to VT and even GMU; the dorms are old and unappealing; a UVA degree does not seem impressive outside of UVA alums. We have not visited the campus yet but it's on our list.

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All wrong. Go read the sobbing of the rejected students on College Confidential in the UVA EA 2022 results and UVA class of 2022 RD results. STEM is doing just fine, thank you very much. The old dorms are being redone the moment students leave for the summer. The new ones look like hotel rooms. The new dorms been up and running for 3 years so I don't know what you are talking about. No one compared STEM at UVA to GMU. A UVA degree is recognized worldwide and in some rankings no. 1 amongst public universities in the United States, always ahead of Michigan. (and it's law school is no. 5 - 7 depending on source and year). It's been no. 1 ahead of UCLA and Berkeley recently. Here it is no. 2. https://news.virginia.edu/content/among-nations-elite-us-news-gives-uva-no-2-public-university-ranking

So what is your real reason for bashing here?

My husband, who hires engineers all the time, can attest to this. Sorry, but UVa STEM education does not have as great of a reputation as the alumni think it does.

That's because engineers coming out of UVA are managers/CEO types. They are not run-of-the-mill engineers like the kind your husband is hiring.

[Anonymous]

Next year this will impact as well:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2018/03/16/no-16-seed-umbc-stuns-virginia-make-ncaa-tournament-history/434445002/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a funny thread. To think that a College that received >37K applications (for an eventual class of ~3,800) and an offer rate of <26% is considered “failing”.

WSJ has a recent article about a reckoning separating the best and worst colleges into winners and losers - many colleges are struggling with enrollment and financial stability. Most colleges would KILL for UVA’s problem of applications:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-decades-of-growth-colleges-find-its-survival-of-the-fittest-1519209001?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/RAWERsstw0

My college would kill for 37,000+ applicants. It's lucky if it gets 1,000. UVA's applications are up 35% since 2013. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-tops-admission-application-record-third-straight-year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next year this will impact as well:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2018/03/16/no-16-seed-umbc-stuns-virginia-make-ncaa-tournament-history/434445002/

Don't be absurd. If anything, they will climb higher because of all the free media UVA received this year over how well it did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I do think the rally had something to do with this. That really hurt Charlottesville nationally, even though they had nothing to do with what happened. However, it certainly didn't help to learn that the organizers were UVA grads.

This.

And you would be wrong. African American applications were also up this year at UVA. 35% of the class of 2022 are URMs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next year this will impact as well:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2018/03/16/no-16-seed-umbc-stuns-virginia-make-ncaa-tournament-history/434445002/

Don't be absurd. If anything, they will climb higher because of all the free media UVA received this year over how well it did.

Their performance in the NCAA tourney was truly historic.