What is it about UVA that makes people so gaga

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I got into Brown, Northwestern, and Cornell. I got rejected from UVA and WM. It's that competitive and it makes no sense, but I actually tell my nieces that they probably having a better bet at a lower-ivy, or private competitive college than landing at UVA. It's that weird.


This. Northern Virginia public high school students can always get into a higher ranked school going out-of-state or going private.
At all academic levels, whether it be Ivy admissions or alternatives to George Mason.





Nonsense

No, truth.

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YES! I remember this too. Though I thought the UVA bookstore must sell the stickers like that - didn't realized students did their own cut and paste job. How arrogant! Blech.

No, you can buy them like that at the bookstore. (I went to UVA. I hope my children won't.)

Curious to know why?

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UVA is a great school. W&M is great, as well. Then you have VT and JMU essentially equal. From there, many solid state universities. UVA is no ivy, but it is no slouch. My state school was not even in the same league as probably the top 4 in VA. I loved UF, but that doesn't make it Harvard.

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It's gotta be all the southern douche bags who go there...then other douche bags want to go there - vicious cycle of douche bag reinforcement. I tend to think of UVA as a "community Ivy."

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Previous UVA reject poster. I went to one of the mega high schools in Fairfax County. I was a great student, top 10 percent blah blah but didn't get in. I'm not bitter, but I do think it is a good point to make getting into UVA from NOVA is oftentimes harder than landing a spot at Vandy or Northwestern or Cornell (at least 10 years ago this was true).

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Anonymous wrote:Previous UVA reject poster. I went to one of the mega high schools in Fairfax County. I was a great student, top 10 percent blah blah but didn't get in. I'm not bitter, but I do think it is a good point to make getting into UVA from NOVA is oftentimes harder than landing a spot at Vandy or Northwestern or Cornell (at least 10 years ago this was true).

Ha ha - yeah, keep telling yourself UVA is like Cornell.

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geographic affirmative action is just like racial affirmative action.

sillyness

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I got into Brown, Northwestern, and Cornell. I got rejected from UVA and WM. It's that competitive and it makes no sense, but I actually tell my nieces that they probably having a better bet at a lower-ivy, or private competitive college than landing at UVA. It's that weird.

This. Northern Virginia public high school students can always get into a higher ranked school going out-of-state or going private.
At all academic levels, whether it be Ivy admissions or alternatives to George Mason.

Nonsense

No, truth.

There are students from NoVa publics who get into U. Va. and rejected from multiple Ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:We are new to this area. My kids are in ES, but this school seems to come into almost every conversation I have with other parents. It is a state school, just like other state schools, right? I heard that it was only difficult to get into if you are out of state like UNC CH. Please enlighten me. Thanks.

Wrong. Do you think it is comperable to say, the University of South Carolina or the University of Alabama?

It's comparable to Michigan, California-Berkeley, UCLA, Wisconsin-Madison, University of Texas, William and Mary. It's a really good state school, but it's still just a state school.

You say "just a state school" - what does that mean? Does the fact that it is public somehow lessen its status? I guess I'm just not sure what you mean by "it's a good school but it's a state school."

Huge. Too much Greek life. Too much emphasis on sports. Admissions policies are driven by political considerations, rather than merit.

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Anonymous wrote:Previous UVA reject poster. I went to one of the mega high schools in Fairfax County. I was a great student, top 10 percent blah blah but didn't get in. I'm not bitter, but I do think it is a good point to make getting into UVA from NOVA is oftentimes harder than landing a spot at Vandy or Northwestern or Cornell (at least 10 years ago this was true).

Ha ha - yeah, keep telling yourself UVA is like Cornell.

I would bet there are frequently kids who apply to both schools and get into Cornell, but not U. Va., and vice versa. Cornell is a large, land-grant Ivy, not HYP.

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Anonymous wrote:Besides rankings can somebody give a more organic view to why UVA is great?

So far, the only answer I have is "it has a great campus", which is nice. It has "good sports" sometimes.

Can anybody give me anything else positive about UVA? Any alum that can give a positive experience they had at UVA?

If you're majoring in basketweaving, UVA is the place to be.

I know it sounds like a dig (I didn't go there), but the connections at UVA are in a different league compared to the other local publics.

The judge I clerked for did an on-line LLM from U.Va. He had to do some residency seminars. One of the UVa law students gave him a campus tour and spent the the entire time talking about how easy U Va is and how much time they had to play softball. My judge was not impressed.

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I would bet there are frequently kids who apply to both schools and get into Cornell, but not U. Va., and vice versa. Cornell is a large, land-grant Ivy, not HYP.

Part is land grant, part is not. It is not HYP, but only HYP are HYP, and aside from selectivity, I don't think P is much like HY (I'd say it's more like Dartmouth).

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Anonymous wrote: (I went to UVA. I hope my children won't.)

Curious to know why?

It's big and impersonal and self-congratulatory, and the dominant culture is very drunk/Greek/sporty/WASP.

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Previous UVA reject poster. I went to one of the mega high schools in Fairfax County. I was a great student, top 10 percent blah blah but didn't get in. I'm not bitter, but I do think it is a good point to make getting into UVA from NOVA is oftentimes harder than landing a spot at Vandy or Northwestern or Cornell (at least 10 years ago this was true).

Now if you had lived in Hillsville, Va you would have gotten in to UVa.

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Anonymous wrote:Besides rankings can somebody give a more organic view to why UVA is great?

So far, the only answer I have is "it has a great campus", which is nice. It has "good sports" sometimes.

Can anybody give me anything else positive about UVA? Any alum that can give a positive experience they had at UVA?

If you're majoring in basketweaving, UVA is the place to be.

I know it sounds like a dig (I didn't go there), but the connections at UVA are in a different league compared to the other local publics.

The judge I clerked for did an on-line LLM from U.Va. He had to do some residency seminars. One of the UVa law students gave him a campus tour and spent the the entire time talking about how easy U Va is and how much time they had to play softball. My judge was not impressed.

Then why waste time getting an online degree. Sounds like credential sniffing.