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[quote=Anonymous]The only place on earth where there's any argument over whether UVA is better than Maryland is in Maryland.  Everywhere else UVA, deserved or not, has the better reputation and we all know it.  Yes, STEM is objectively better at MD, but that doesn't even matter.  You major in engineering at UVA and you're golden regardless.

We all can argue until the cows come home (to Maryland, not to UVA, as Maryland is the land grant university ha ha) whether UVA's better reputation is deserved, but that doesn't change the fact that the reputation is there.  It's more selective, out of state students pay more to go there, etc., and these are all signs that it's a more desired school.  No public university has had more Rhodes Scholars than UVA, and it continues to churn them out.  Write that off as anecdotal, but the Rhodes is undeniably the most prestigious scholarship that there is for American undergraduates, and the award is dominated by top 10 private schools, the service academies, and UVA.  This speaks volumes about the school's reputation for undergraduate education.

The only real argument is whether UVA's reputation as being better than Maryland is deserved -- not whether it exists.   [/quote]

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