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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's pretty low ranked in the world university rankings.  It's an American thing with residual love of the plantation lifestyle... The world looks at the academic results ( not very impressed ) and doesn't get the plantation thing.[/quote]

I love insane statements like this. UVa is actually pretty middling on world rankings (usually between 100-135 in the world on things like QS and ARWU/Shanghai). Even these rankings are actually pretty extraordinary with all of the great schools around the world, but definitely not on par with a domestic ranking of in the top 25. I am sure there are methodology reasons and even substantive reasons why this is, but I am certain that it has nothing to do with the "world" not getting "the plantation thing."  For the love of god, Vanderbilt is well-ranked (around 50) in the ARWU world rankings, as is Chapel Hillll (36), both of which have at least a little "plantation thing" going on.

It is totally acceptable not to like UVa or find it to be "meh", but please stop with asinine assertions about plantations or suggestions that it is somehow a bad school (being "worse than Cal and Michigan", two extraordinary schools, does not make a school bad).[/quote]

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