University of Richmond thoughts

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Anonymous wrote: Also highly doubt that UR is close to being a top academic school.

If you have read Dante's "Inferno," "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" in Italian, as my relative did at Richmond, then maybe you would have thrived at Richmond academically. If not, then perhaps I'm not that interested in such an opinion as that which you offered here.

And my add at WM is reading Tolstoy in Russian. Because they are a Russian major. If your relative is reading them in Italian, they majored in Italian (or it’s a native language). Reading cannon literature in the native language is a bare minimum expectation to major in a foreign language, not a unique and special marker of intellectual superiority.

If you want to impress me with reading cannon literature in the original language, we can discuss St. John’s (which I would have loved for one of my kids, but they said no way). Getting through that curriculum is impressive. An Italian major/natove who can read Italian— every single college with a competent foreign language program (sorry WVU- RIP).

Unfortunately, I'd need to disentangle your multiple assumptions here to offer a meaningful response. Nonetheless, for those who may be interested, I'll note that she is a non-native speaker of Italian who picked up a second major in Italian at Richmond. Her reading level, then, as you noted, would be expected. The point, however, was that she reached a level in an elective sequence that some posters, perhaps including you, who have been critical of Richmond in this topic are unlikely to have achieved themselves.

You’re wrong. I went to Wake Forest at a time when you had to take your foreign language class through literature in a language to graduate in any major. I was, in fact, a STEM student and terrible at foreign languages. But suffer through a semester of Camus I did, because my college that actually expected that level of foreign language fluency from every single student (I doubt this is still a requirement. The core curriculum at Wake was insane, looking back. And they have since trimmed it).

Also wrong about “elective sequence”. My DC is IR major with Russian as a second major (which makes them employable in 2025). The second major is optional. But once you decide to major, reading literature in the major isn’t an “elective sequence,” it part of getting the major. And lots of kids do double major. I mean, good for relative for double majoring. But doing so isn’t proof his college was intellectually anything. AP high schoolers also have to read literature in a source language. You are doing the equivalent of bragging your engineering students had to do differential equations. No duh. It’s a basic part of an engineering major.

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Anonymous wrote:Why the f*ck is there a 460 post thread on Richmond? What’s next? A 500 post thread on Randolph Macon?

Richmond is a top 25 LAC. Sorry your kid didn't get in.

Not sure the posts on this thread are a sign of UR’s popularity with the DCUM crowd. Think it’s actually the opposite.

+1. UR makes zero sense to many of us. We aren’t the target audience. If our kid wants to leave the state, UP ain’t it. If they want to stay instate, it’s hard to swallow 2x WM and 3x JMU/VT for… UR?

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It’s weird. I live in Va and have zero thoughts. I’d never consider it. (Or W&L). Not much smaller than WM. So much more expensive. End of analysis.

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PP I agree. It’s a rich kids school.
That’s all. Hate that Kelly Corrigan went there. Now I think differently about her. Hate that I judge it but I do.

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With respect to academic atmosphere, Richmond places highly in this Princeton Review survey-based ranking, "Best Classroom Experience":

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/?rankings=best-classroom-experience

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It’s kind of strange but over the years (spanning 20 years) I have worked with 3 different women who went there and all were kind of entitled and awful. I do know one recent student athlete there though who is lovely.

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Anonymous wrote:PP I agree. It’s a rich kids school.
That’s all. Hate that Kelly Corrigan went there. Now I think differently about her. Hate that I judge it but I do.

Says more about you than it does about her.

P.S. Sorry your kid didn't get in.

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This is the one school where reputation, atmosphere, academics, undergrad teaching and costs are way out of whack. It’s super expensive and they don’t give much merit aid. But no one in their right might is paying $88k per year for this school given its reputation, the academics, atmosphere and the quality (or lack thereof) of the undergrad teaching. I guess they are able to persuade some people to pay full price to go here, but who are they people and what are they possibly thinking?!!

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No one from Virginia would ever go here unless you have money to burn, and no other options. Academically it’s not in the same universe as W&M but it’s three times the cost. That’s just stupid.

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Rich kids schools. Know one person who went here. She’s a stay at home soccer mom.

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Overrated; not worth the money
Better options out there

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PP I agree. It’s a rich kids school.
That’s all. Hate that Kelly Corrigan went there. Now I think differently about her. Hate that I judge it but I do.

Says more about you than it does about her.

P.S. Sorry your kid didn't get in.

Super annoying someone keeps saying this, but maybe it’s a snotty Richmond thing? To be clear, half this board has in state VA options and can get Richmond quality or much better (JUMU, GMU, VT, WM, UVA) at a fraction of the cost. DCUM just isn’t Richmond’s target demographic. Go try NYNJUM.

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It’s a Richmond thing. Snotty. Rich. Entitled. WASPY Country club crowd. Popped collars and hush puppies. Life is too short. Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.

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Richmond is third tier here in the DMV. Maybe in NY/NJ they think otherwise. No one in VA is paying $80k for UR, that’s for sure!

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Almost time for the UR “sorry your kid didn’t get in” guy to chime in.