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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA for sure. UVA is a higher ranked school and enjoys international reputation. 80%+ of UNC are in-state.[/quote]

I don't think UVA has a better international reputation.  Lived for quite a while in the UK.  Neither is going to be well known there.  Best known schools are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Caltech (top a number of years in a row on UK global ranking), Yale, Penn (Wharton), etc.[/quote]

Yes it does compared to UNC. No one has heard of UNC in Singapore, Hong Kong or Shanghai. But UVA is well known there.[/quote]

Have been there as well.  Not in my experience.  Neither one will be well known.  [/quote]

Among the kids hoping to come to the US for college they are. Times/Shanghai world rankings- UNC- 54, UVA- 107
I'll throw in just because it makes the UVA people nuts, UMD-91[/quote]

THE (Times) is mostly research with some metric thrown in for foreign students.  The foreign metric in particular skews to UK schools, so Oxford is 1 and Harvard is 7.   ARWU is perhaps less biased in my view, but again research and influential paper driven.  That one has Berkeley above Princeton.  Yale is behind UCLA.  It isn't an undergraduate study ranking.  UVA is in 151-200, UNC is 33, Maryland is 46.

Again, I'd say these are really research university rankings.  I think it is next to irrelevant for this decision.  I don't think there is enough of a difference between UNC and UVA to merit choosing one over the other.  Your daughter should choose the one she likes better.

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