University of Richmond thoughts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huge endowment. Nice facilities. Loyal alumni network. Strong on-campus recruiting. High starting and mid career salaries. Attractive students. Beautiful campus with city access. What's not to love?

Kash Patel.

No way!
He went there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Same here. I’ve worked in DC Big Law for 25 years. I can’t remember ever working with someone who went to Richmond. I would send my kids there.

Meant - would not send my kids there.

[Anonymous]

No one from VA goes there. Far Better options at 1/3 of the cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are considering UR - you need to get the real story on the social environment at UR from someone in the know. Everything is off campus. Parties run by small group of non-official frats and sororities. Need to be in with the “it” crowd or it can be tough. These typically are the coolest of cool kids at their respective high schools. You will be judged.

I’ve also heard this about UR’s social scene.

[Anonymous]

Social scene = mean girls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take away Richmond’s #22 ranking in the US News - and no one seems to know what the US News is actually measuring, certainly not undergrad teaching - and UR is a no name regional school charging $50k a year with nothing much to offer.

Well there is the $3.2b endowment funded mainly by Robins (Chapstick and Robitussin) but otherwise agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Social scene = mean girls

Actually there are lots of foyine girls at UR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Same here. I’ve worked in DC Big Law for 25 years. I can’t remember ever working with someone who went to Richmond. I would send my kids there.

The 43 year old US prosecutor who just died of undisclosed causes went to UR undergrad and by all accounts, she was a wonderful, intelligent, and generous hard worker for some of the country’s most vulnerable victims. If you’re really in “big law”, you’re why big law stereotypes exist.

[Anonymous]

Why 35 pages of slamming a small private school that isn't getting a state appropriation? To each their own. Variety is the spice of life. It takes all kinds to make the world go round. . .

[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.

Nope. Kid got in and decided not to go. Thankfully. It speaks volumes to me when someone goes there. And when someone makes comments like yours. You, dear, are very transparent.

[Anonymous]

Overrated

[Anonymous]

Wow. Don't think I've ever read a thread this negative on this forum!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. Don't think I've ever read a thread this negative on this forum!

Seriously. So many posters' kids rejected by UR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Nope. Kid got in and decided not to go. Thankfully. It speaks volumes to me when someone goes there. And when someone makes comments like yours. You, dear, are very transparent.

What exactly speaks volumes when someone goes there? You sound mean spirited.

[Anonymous]

So negative we are going to admitted students day this Saturday. All this negativity is having the opposite effect. Can’t wait to see it. Lots of schools get no mention on this board at all.