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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's really strange to see expression of school spirit or pride as a negative. It's evidence of a good community. It's a good thing when alumni love their college. It's a good thing when the school's network is strong. It's not "cocky" to be proud of your college. It's a pretty normal thing...unless you went to a school that didn't have much school spirit.

UVA grads (and Tech grades, for that matter) are a lot like grads from where I went to school. Super proud, wear the school gear, get together for watch parties, hope our kids consider it when their time comes, etc. [/quote]

I totally agree with this.  I went to Texas and exchange (Hook E'm) hand signs almost daily with others in DC that are wearing the gear.  Make no mistake, UVA is a great school.  [b]It just does not have any cache out of the DMV area.[/b]  It's sports are mediocre at best and while the school is ranked highly as public university, there are many public universities that have higher ranked majors in close distance to the DMV.  Wisconsin, Michigan and Purdue to name a few.

All UVA boosters, be proud of your school - as you should be.  I just find it ridiculous to shout down others that went to a different school.[/quote]

I agree that UVA is better known and valued here in the DMV, which is pretty typical for the vast majority of colleges and universities, but to say it has no cache outside of the DMV is absurd.  There were 41,377 OOS applicants for the current freshmen class.
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Yeah, I love posts like that.  So disconnected with reality.  Reminds me of WC Fields: “nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.“[/quote]

Yogi Berra?[/quote]

Yes!  My bad.

Regardless, it’s pretty funny how tens of thousands of top students from all over the country who are also shooting for the Ivies, Duke, Stanford and other top privates routinely include UVA on their list every year, yet the school has no “cache out of the DMV?”  Preposterous. [/quote]

It’s the safety/fallback.[/quote]

This board is pathological where UVA is concerned. I attended UNC OOS, had no interest in the school, and didn’t love the people I met when our pledge class visited the UVA chapter.  Neither my kid nor any of his friends (as far as I know) applied.

BUT - it is undoubtedly a great school with a very strong alumni community.  UVA grads can be a little tiresome in their pride in their alma mater, but so what - UNC fans are the same way, and UNC is a school that caps OOS admissions and treated academics for student athletes with utter contempt for many years (an incredible disservice to both the school’s reputation and the athletes).  If tarheel alums can be proud, UVA alums have much more of a right to be.  [/quote]

UVa is a safety for [b]good students[/b].[/quote]

Okay, troll.  How do you define (quantitatively) "good students"? [/quote]

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