Why is UVA rated as high as it is?

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Anonymous wrote:Some of it is alumni - have you ever met someone who went to UVA who didn’t love it?

There are many schools that have loyal alumni and boosters. Many schools have a higher alumni giving rate than UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of it is alumni - have you ever met someone who went to UVA who didn’t love it?

There are many schools that have loyal alumni and boosters. Many schools have a higher alumni giving rate than UVA.

A lot of people cite the endowment. But about half of that belongs to the medical system, law school, and Darden. Not a single undergraduate.

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Anonymous wrote:Because and Mr. Jefferson founded it and it was on my American history tests in school.

UCLA and UNC might be fine schools, but they weren't in my history books.

Was that State of Virginia history? UNC is actually an older school than Virginia, as is, believe it or not, the University of Michigan.

UCLA took only 100 years of existence to become the top rated public university by US News.

Missouri grade school history. Maybe fifth grade.

[Anonymous]

UVA alum who went from out of state here. Great school with excellent job prospects if you do well and know the kind of track you want to move towards after graduation. It’s the kids who have a rough semester or two in terms of grades or have a lack of focus or partying too much that suffer. It’s not as forgiving if you’re middle of your class as might be the case at a Harvard or the like. I was in the Comm School (ie, McIntire School of Commerce) and anyone in the top 10-20% of the class did quite well and had opportunities every bit as prestigious as at the Ivies. Others not so much. I’d note that the grading in E school was much more stringent and often created a comparative disadvantage for kids graduating there due to grade inflation at the other schools. Then again, going into engineering makes much less of a difference where you go in general with the exception of places like MIT, CalTech, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of it is alumni - have you ever met someone who went to UVA who didn’t love it?

There are many schools that have loyal alumni and boosters. Many schools have a higher alumni giving rate than UVA.

A lot of people cite the endowment. But about half of that belongs to the medical system, law school, and Darden. Not a single undergraduate.

You can characterize UVA's endowment however you want, but the bottom line is that its undergraduate financial resources are strong enough that it is one of VERY few public colleges that is need blind in admissions and guarantees to meet 100 percent of the financial aid needs of any student it admits. Its ability and willingness to do this is one of the many reasons why it is rated as high as it is.

[Anonymous]

You don't see UMD in these groups LOL:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2007/10/30/harvard-princeton-uva-admissions-deans-tour-accessibility-message

http://www.hpuwy.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of it is alumni - have you ever met someone who went to UVA who didn’t love it?

There are many schools that have loyal alumni and boosters. Many schools have a higher alumni giving rate than UVA.

A lot of people cite the endowment. But about half of that belongs to the medical system, law school, and Darden. Not a single undergraduate.

You can characterize UVA's endowment however you want, but the bottom line is that its undergraduate financial resources are strong enough that it is one of VERY few public colleges that is need blind in admissions and guarantees to meet 100 percent of the financial aid needs of any student it admits. Its ability and willingness to do this is one of the many reasons why it is rated as high as it is.

Fair enough. That is to its credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA alum who went from out of state here. Great school with excellent job prospects if you do well and know the kind of track you want to move towards after graduation. It’s the kids who have a rough semester or two in terms of grades or have a lack of focus or partying too much that suffer. It’s not as forgiving if you’re middle of your class as might be the case at a Harvard or the like. I was in the Comm School (ie, McIntire School of Commerce) and anyone in the top 10-20% of the class did quite well and had opportunities every bit as prestigious as at the Ivies. Others not so much. I’d note that the grading in E school was much more stringent and often created a comparative disadvantage for kids graduating there due to grade inflation at the other schools. Then again, going into engineering makes much less of a difference where you go in general with the exception of places like MIT, CalTech, Stanford, Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Michigan, CMU
etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't see UMD in these groups LOL:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2007/10/30/harvard-princeton-uva-admissions-deans-tour-accessibility-message

http://www.hpuwy.com/

Checkmate, this proves UVA is equivalent to Harvard and Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't see UMD in these groups LOL:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2007/10/30/harvard-princeton-uva-admissions-deans-tour-accessibility-message

http://www.hpuwy.com/

Checkmate, this proves UVA is equivalent to Harvard and Princeton.

Yessir

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A top school may teach you have to analyze The Illiad in 200 different ways but what's the point in that if you end up working at Starbucks after that (extreme example of course).

Because this is a painful, uncertain world. Working at a Starbucks, and being nominally free, and having a room, indoor plumbing, food and good health, is a pretty good outcome. We could follow worse paths.

Knowing how to Iliad 200 ways may help us put our own paths in perspective, and help us occupy and console ourselves if the path we take is not ideal.

[Anonymous]

If the state succeeds at eliminating advanced math options for K-10, will UVA and other Virginia publics continue to be highly rated in the years to come?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because cheap parents in NoVa insist on instate, only.

100%.

Living in $1.3m+ home with 2.5 kids, people say "our kids will just go to state school," which means apply to UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A top school may teach you have to analyze The Illiad in 200 different ways but what's the point in that if you end up working at Starbucks after that (extreme example of course).

Because this is a painful, uncertain world. Working at a Starbucks, and being nominally free, and having a room, indoor plumbing, food and good health, is a pretty good outcome. We could follow worse paths.

Knowing how to Iliad 200 ways may help us put our own paths in perspective, and help us occupy and console ourselves if the path we take is not ideal.

Being privately educated and having free coffee, great benefits, flexible days and hours, and being able to pick up kids from school, and Illiad 200 days is great.

[Anonymous]

ways lol.