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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]F[b]rom what I hear from other parents, there has been less talk/interest in UVA; so I can believe that application growth rate is lower then other colleges. Some points that parents make are: the lack of prestige in STEM at UVA compared to VT and even GMU; the dorms are old and unappealing; a UVA degree does not seem impressive outside of UVA alums. We have not visited the campus yet but it's on our list. [/quote][/b]

All wrong.  Go read the sobbing of the rejected students on College Confidential in the UVA EA 2022 results and UVA class of 2022 RD results.  STEM is doing just fine, thank you very much.  The old dorms are being redone the moment students leave for the summer.  The new ones look like hotel rooms.  The new dorms been up and running for 3 years so I don't know what you are talking about.  No one compared STEM at UVA to GMU.  A UVA degree is recognized worldwide and in some rankings no. 1 amongst public universities in the United States, always ahead of Michigan. (and it's law school is no. 5 - 7 depending on source and year).  It's been no. 1 ahead of UCLA and Berkeley recently.  Here it is no. 2.  https://news.virginia.edu/content/among-nations-elite-us-news-gives-uva-no-2-public-university-ranking

So what is your real reason for bashing here?[/quote]

I just wanted to make sure I understand ... any negative comment, opinion, articles about UVA is either a vast conspiracy of UVA hatred or very jealous rejected hopefuls. And from now on, if I come by a critical UVA posting on this DCForum, it is from one individual who has chosen this forum as his chosen medium to spread ugly hatred against impeccable UVA or a crying, lonely, loser teenager who is angry that he was not accepted into UVA.

I'm sorry if my posting sounded as if I would be bashing a stellar institution like UVA that warrants absolutely no criticism. I'm sure there are absolutely great explanations that the [b]WaPo would write an article about UVA being the 5th school in America with the highest reported sexual assault[/b]s. But I know, the WaPo are a bunch of UVA rejects just trying to smear this immaculate school. But no worries, with all their CEOs and managers and winners that UVA has produces, UVA must be a treasure trove of alumi donations.

The tears falling on my face may look like from laughter, but it's from the hollow empty feeling that I will never be able to commiserate with fellow UVA parents. They are the best parents - not delusional at all.[/quote]

If I get what you're saying through all that mumble jumble that the federal reporting of cases to the Department of Education is a bad thing, you need to read this.  The fact that UVA was the fifth in number means that sexual harassment is taken seriously at UVA and reported to the federal Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, as they are supposed to do under the Cleary Act.  The problem is that for decades colleges and universities would sweep these sexual harassment claims under the rug.  Read the article.  The fact that large numbers are being reported to the feds is a GOOD thing.  It means the message is getting out that these types of harassment will not be tolerated and that the schools are taking this problem seriously, opening files, reporting to the police and then file formal paperwork with the feds for each incident.  Note also in the article that the fact that UVA is 5th in reporting (35 rapes or so) confuses parents because that's 35 rapes per 25,000.  Then the article points out that Brown or some of the others with both higher and lower reports reports actually had much higher incidences of rape per capita because the school's population is so small.  You have to take the size of the school into consideration.  My own college was fined by the Department of Ed for underreporting these incidences.   So reporting is a good thing.  Please read this before you bash UVA with your incorrect reading of statistics.  http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/statistics-on-uva-sex-assaults-seen-as-success-of-awareness/article_e756e9d4-2eb0-11e6-93cf-1f1434a6f293.html[/quote]

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