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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to a C’ville local article:

Where UVA falls way behind its peers in the rankings. and has since these rankings began the new category in 2020, is social mobility. The category evaluates how universities serve low-income students, and UVA has traditionally fallen behind in this metric because of its relatively small proportion of Pell Grant students. The University of Virginia ranks in a tie for 173rd in that metric. The number is not too far below Michigan’s 166th, but is way below UC-Berkeley’s 87th, UNC’s 77th, and UCLA’s 30th rank.[/quote]
Pell is 5% of the ranking. [/quote]

True, but the difference is huge and the final "score" differential between these schools is fractional so it makes a difference.  So much so, in fact, that UVA acknowledges the cause and effect.  And I'd hazard a guess that the schools have a better understanding of how they're ending up where they're ranked than you do.[/quote]

This. UVA ranked higher before USNWR changed its logarithm to raise the impact of Pell grant students. Prior, UVA consistently ranked as no 2 public, with only Michigan ahead of it. And it was 22 overall. It dropped slightly when USNWR increased the Pell grant percentage. Obviously schools in poorer states rose, hence UCLA and Cal jumped. Virginia is per capita  a wealthier state so there will always be fewer Pell grant recipients. Also,
Pell grant status isn’t known at time of application, so UVA can’t very pick them. [/quote]

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