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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP.  Background: Former VA resident, and have an OOS kid who applied to UVA but since that's pretty hopeless for us, applied ED and was accepted somewhere else.

I have also noticed some threads that have nothing to do with UVA get taken over by UVA boosters/haters.  In particular, I recall one was a UCLA thread in this last month (I am a UCLA grad so was paying attention).

A week or so ago, I was thinking not to quarantine UVA posters, but given the amount of UVA traffic here, they could use their own forum.  Lots of useful info on UVA and it would be good to consolidate it all in one spot.[/quote]

It could be beneficial for everyone. 
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The reality is[b] it could be just one or two people [/b]given the nature of an anonymous forum.  Hard to say.  [/quote]

I happen to believe that the unsolicited "why would you pay so much money to send your child to [actual topic of thread] when you could send your kids to UVA?!" posts are all the same person. Having a UVA thread/forum will not stop the troll poster from hijacking other threads, sadly.[/quote]

I think UVA has a fine school, but the thing that irritates me is when UVA gets introduced into threads that have nothing to do with it, usually with the off topic (and also usually unsubstantiated) claim it is better than the subject school in all respects.  If those posts could just be ignored, it would keep good threads from going off the rails.[/quote]

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