UVA out of top 25

[Anonymous]

Nobody really cares about school rankings in the real world. From what I’ve seen, they have little impact once you're actually working. I'm a federal employee with a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and one of my colleagues graduated from Carnegie Mellon. We both report to a manager who went to Northern Virginia Community College before transferring to James Madison University. His supervisor? She graduated from the University of Mary Washington. Before I joined the federal government, I worked at Apple—my manager there had a degree from Capella University, and his boss was a college dropout from UMBC. So really, does it matter if UVA is ranked a few spots below Emory?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody really cares about school rankings in the real world. From what I’ve seen, they have little impact once you're actually working. I'm a federal employee with a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and one of my colleagues graduated from Carnegie Mellon. We both report to a manager who went to Northern Virginia Community College before transferring to James Madison University. His supervisor? She graduated from the University of Mary Washington. Before I joined the federal government, I worked at Apple—my manager there had a degree from Capella University, and his boss was a college dropout from UMBC. So really, does it matter if UVA is ranked a few spots below Emory?

TBH, it doesn’t. That said, it is fun (and really easy) to get UVA boosters all riled up about being out of the top 25.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody really cares about school rankings in the real world. From what I’ve seen, they have little impact once you're actually working. I'm a federal employee with a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and one of my colleagues graduated from Carnegie Mellon. We both report to a manager who went to Northern Virginia Community College before transferring to James Madison University. His supervisor? She graduated from the University of Mary Washington. Before I joined the federal government, I worked at Apple—my manager there had a degree from Capella University, and his boss was a college dropout from UMBC. So really, does it matter if UVA is ranked a few spots below Emory?

It shouldn't matter, but it does to uva boosters who couldn't leave Emory alone few days ago.

[Anonymous]

UVa's Engineering School Ranking is relatively accurate # 39 - below VT, Penn State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, etc.

Folks on this board dont realize how mediocre UVA Engineering Program is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody really cares about school rankings in the real world. From what I’ve seen, they have little impact once you're actually working. I'm a federal employee with a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and one of my colleagues graduated from Carnegie Mellon. We both report to a manager who went to Northern Virginia Community College before transferring to James Madison University. His supervisor? She graduated from the University of Mary Washington. Before I joined the federal government, I worked at Apple—my manager there had a degree from Capella University, and his boss was a college dropout from UMBC. So really, does it matter if UVA is ranked a few spots below Emory?

It shouldn't matter, but it does to uva boosters who couldn't leave Emory alone few days ago.

LOL I'm the OP of the thread you're referring to and Emory and UVA going from tied to one right after the other in the rankings means nothing. Any VA family would be nuts to pick Emory over UVA for this reasons. They remain peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVa's Engineering School Ranking is relatively accurate # 39 - below VT, Penn State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, etc.

Folks on this board dont realize how mediocre UVA Engineering Program is.

If being ranked 39th out of 211 makes UVA's program "mediocre," what does that say about the 172 programs ranked lower?

[Anonymous]

Of course UVA isn’t worth $90k. I’m frankly not sure any school is. It is still a fantastic value for VA residents and VA employers view it favorably.

I grew up in Richmond and went to W&M. When you leave Nova, most Virginians don’t view highly ranked private colleges as any more impressive than UVA. The general prevailing attitude is “why would you want to attend leave VA?”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody really cares about school rankings in the real world. From what I’ve seen, they have little impact once you're actually working. I'm a federal employee with a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and one of my colleagues graduated from Carnegie Mellon. We both report to a manager who went to Northern Virginia Community College before transferring to James Madison University. His supervisor? She graduated from the University of Mary Washington. Before I joined the federal government, I worked at Apple—my manager there had a degree from Capella University, and his boss was a college dropout from UMBC. So really, does it matter if UVA is ranked a few spots below Emory?

It shouldn't matter, but it does to uva boosters who couldn't leave Emory alone few days ago.

LOL I'm the OP of the thread you're referring to and Emory and UVA going from tied to one right after the other in the rankings means nothing. Any VA family would be nuts to pick Emory over UVA for this reasons. They remain peers.

Seems like there's a lot of nutty people out there according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=University+of+Virginia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVa's Engineering School Ranking is relatively accurate # 39 - below VT, Penn State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, etc.

Folks on this board dont realize how mediocre UVA Engineering Program is.

Are UVA undergraduate engineering salaries below those schools? I don't think so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have no ties to UVA and don’t live in VA, but consider it a top 2 public. The CA schools are hugely overrated. UVA benefits from being half the size.

Ridiculous assertion....ludicrous really. Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan are patently better than UVA and other state schools arguably are as well.

You're an idiot. UVA is consistently USNWR no 2,3, 4, 5 top public (depending on algorithms having to do with Pell grant numbers, which UVA cannot control). https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public?myCollege=national-universities&_sort=myCollege&_sortDirection=asc), UVA is a top public school in american and produces more rhodes scholars than any of the other publics (with the exceptions of West Point)

And you are misinformed with anger issues. This list is pretty good and UVA is below all of the schools I mentioned and others. It is a very good school but you are delusional placing it at #2. Who is #1 by the way?

https://blog.prepscholar.com/top-public-universities

UVA held the #2 public spot for numerous consecutive years.

[Anonymous]

UVA is perfect and superior to you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UVa boosters made a thread to bash Emory, WashU and other schools yesterday. Calling them pseudo prestigious. Funny how things work out.

Yep

That was just one very insecure mom. She spews that crap everywhere. Students can get a great education at any school. I think it is toxic to the students to disparage any school they may choose.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody really cares about school rankings in the real world. From what I’ve seen, they have little impact once you're actually working. I'm a federal employee with a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and one of my colleagues graduated from Carnegie Mellon. We both report to a manager who went to Northern Virginia Community College before transferring to James Madison University. His supervisor? She graduated from the University of Mary Washington. Before I joined the federal government, I worked at Apple—my manager there had a degree from Capella University, and his boss was a college dropout from UMBC. So really, does it matter if UVA is ranked a few spots below Emory?

It shouldn't matter, but it does to uva boosters who couldn't leave Emory alone few days ago.

LOL I'm the OP of the thread you're referring to and Emory and UVA going from tied to one right after the other in the rankings means nothing. Any VA family would be nuts to pick Emory over UVA for this reasons. They remain peers.

Seems like there's a lot of nutty people out there according to parchment.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=University+of+Virginia

Yet another dimwit poster. Ask Parchment to post who elects to go where when the student is IN state. Because that was my obvious point, moron.

[Anonymous]

UVA is really run ryan. There is a lot of racism. The engineering school has dropped significantly in rank. It's not a surprise to anyone. In actually surprised it's not ranked lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA is really run ryan. There is a lot of racism. The engineering school has dropped significantly in rank. It's not a surprise to anyone. In actually surprised it's not ranked lower.

Soon it will be ranked around #40.