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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course people will still apply. It’s one of the best colleges in the US. This was not in the admissions department of any of the schools mentioned. It was bad actors in the athletics departments of the schools. The Georgetown coach was involved with at least 12 students. Will it affect Georgetown?

Last year, we saw the stories about deferral/rejections from donors to UVA being kicked back to UVA admissions to “take another look”. Those kicked back were for donating families in the several hundred thousand dollar range. This was in the UVA admissions office. Ironically, that 500k spent by Loughlin would have legally bought her a spot at UVA easily. For a spot at USC, Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, that 500k open donation won’t work.

UVA is a top public college. It’s still just that, a state school. All state schools are predominantly state residents; though Michigan does seem to be raising its OOS presence every year. The UC’s have 40 million residents to draw from. UVA isn’t even the best engineering school in its own state. Is Michigan? The only Public University’s that maybe belong in the top 30 are Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan. And yes, I said maybe in the top 30. Graduate school is a different story. UVA’s Medical, Law, and Business schools keep their ranking high.

The top 30 colleges in the US are private’s and the top LAC’s;

Start with the Ivy’s and work your way up from the South, North, and out West.

Ivy’s - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell (8). 
South - Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory (3)
DC/North - Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Chicago, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, Tufts (9)
West - WUSL, Rice, Stanford, Cal Tech, USC (5)
LAC’s - Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore (3)

[b]That’s 28 right there. Is anyone seriously going to choose UVA over any of these schools if cost isn’t an issue?[/b] You can start throwing in the Public’s around the mid to high twenties, and that list begins with Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan. Then the next tier of Public schools like UVA, GA Tech, UNC, UF, UT, UWash, UWisc. But they’re mixed in with the next layer of Private’s and LAC’s. [/quote]

Actually yes. Schools on that list that I have heard of, but don't know enough about to know that they're highly regarded are tufts and Emory, the SLACs have absolutely no appeal to me at all. And I don't know what WUSL is [/quote]

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