Will riots/demonstrations affect UVA reputation/applications?

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Anonymous wrote:Educational Consultant here - seriously, you are not right about this. It will blow over. I have actually pulled all of the data on this. Everyone said the same thing would happen with the Rolling Stone article - it didn't. Or Hannah Graham - it didn't. I could go on. Nothing is making a difference.. and these people are not pro-rape (the applications deadline occurred during the time when everyone thought the article was true) or pro-kidnapping students.. it's just that their desire for a top-name school at a low price supercedes their concern about any of this.

1. The UVA story was revealed to be a hoax before it had a chance to have an impact.
2. What just happened at UVA is at least as bad as what went down at Mizzou. Their freshman enrollment dropped by 1/3. I'm not saying that will happen at UVA, but don't delude yourself. To most people, UVA is academically closer to Mizzou than it is to UC Berkeley.

Mizzou? I have no comment on the heirarchy of schools, and I don't know about your facts, but I suggest Mizzou's problems are more closely related to funding issues and budget cuts than to student unrest.

You are completely wrong.

Second tier toilet.

The drop in enrollment is solely due to to the protests and how the administration of Mizzou handled it. Anyone who knows anything about it or knows people from Missouri can tell you thos fact.

[Anonymous]

I think out-of-staters have had the impression that Virginia is changing and not as much of a Southern state. I don't know the magnitude, but I would guess that has generally increase interest in UVA...particularly from minorities who would be very reluctant to go to other highly ranked southern schools.

This event will re-associate Virginia with the south and racism, and it may have an impact in interest. It's hard to say, though, and it'll depend on what UVA does in response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm white. I wouldn't send my child there now. If nothing else, I wouldn't want people to assume my child is a racist because they're a UVa Alum.

If you are white, people will assume you are a racist anyway, so just do what works for you.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a minority being recruited by one of their sports teams....this is making me re-think and potentially talk to my child's travel coach about re-focusing their efforts elsewhere. Sports team or not, I cannot be fearful of my child's safety.

If your kid is good enough for ACc sports, and is a minority, surely he/she can go to an Ivy League school.
Why go to uva?

Ivies don't offer scholarships and the ACC is a stronger athletic conference, so that makes UVA very attractive for bright and athletic kids. But my son has also been recruited by UVA and I am rethinking pursuing that opportunity for him. I'd rather get a second job to afford an Ivy League school than sending him to a alt-right hot bed.

1. ivy pricetag is worth it over going to uva on scholly.

2. unless your kid has the talent to go pro/olympics, what's the point of playing in the acc over the ivy league? I get Kyrie Irving going to duke over princeton but below that level, it doesn't make sense.

Seriously, the decision making doesn't make sense unless he's well below the academic index for the ivy league.

disregard if your son is pro-caliber at his sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm white. I wouldn't send my child there now. If nothing else, I wouldn't want people to assume my child is a racist because they're a UVa Alum.

That's pretty ridiculous imo

[Anonymous]

I'm white. I wouldn't send my child there now. If nothing else, I wouldn't want people to assume my child is a racist because they're a UVa Alum.

If you are white, people will assume you are a racist anyway, so just do what works for you.

From a pure statistical and probability perspective -- aka Las Vegas--that default is a likely winner. A sad commentary look at the garbage Americans just put in the WH.

[Anonymous]

I think some posters have nailed it. It's not a UVA issue specifically, but the fact that it happened in Virginia undermine the reputation of the state in general, which will hurt UVA. When you are the University of [STATE]. your reputation is largely affected on the reputation of the state.

The same thing happened to Florida. Like Virginia, Florida has been gradually turning blue for years, and is relatively well-educated (by southern standards), but its reputation for "weird" crime stories keeps it a laughingstock.

[Anonymous]

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I'm white. I wouldn't send my child there now. If nothing else, I wouldn't want people to assume my child is a racist because they're a UVa Alum.

If you are white, people will assume you are a racist anyway, so just do what works for you.

From a pure statistical and probability perspective -- aka Las Vegas--that default is a likely winner. A sad commentary look at the garbage Americans just put in the WH.

All the more reason why the previous poster should not worry about it. Her child is damned either way, so she should just do what makes sense academically and financially for her family.

[Anonymous]

I hope it will affect admissions. Can't stand UVA. Won't have my kids applying to Tech, either. Terrible places

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I'm white. I wouldn't send my child there now. If nothing else, I wouldn't want people to assume my child is a racist because they're a UVa Alum.

If you are white, people will assume you are a racist anyway, so just do what works for you.

From a pure statistical and probability perspective -- aka Las Vegas--that default is a likely winner. A sad commentary look at the garbage Americans just put in the WH.

All the more reason why the previous poster should not worry about it. Her child is damned either way, so she should just do what makes sense academically and financially for her family.

The kid probably doesn't have stats for ivy admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope it will affect admissions. Can't stand UVA. Won't have my kids applying to Tech, either. Terrible places

You sound jealous. Didn't get in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think out-of-staters have had the impression that Virginia is changing and not as much of a Southern state. I don't know the magnitude, but I would guess that has generally increase interest in UVA...particularly from minorities who would be very reluctant to go to other highly ranked southern schools.

This event will re-associate Virginia with the south and racism, and it may have an impact in interest. It's hard to say, though, and it'll depend on what UVA does in response.

Like what?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope it will affect admissions. Can't stand UVA. Won't have my kids applying to Tech, either. Terrible places

You sound jealous. Didn't get in?

Yeah, sour grapes.

[Anonymous]

UMD will supplant UVA -- if not already. Watch.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD will supplant UVA -- if not already. Watch.

College Park?? I wouldn't let my kid live there for free!