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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]It has been a university for hundreds of years and was founded by Thomas Jefferson. It is a place most cultured, educated people have at least heard mentioned once or twice. Maybe you are from another country.

I certainly wouldn't consider Cornell equal to UVA. [/quote]
Regardless, a school like Edison with more ESOL students does have an advantage for your typical upper middle class kids--they have a lot less competition at the top of the class and for extracurricular activites. Also, for in-state colleges, admissions people have an idea of how many kids they want to accept from each school. So a school like Edison could give your dc a competitive advantage over not standing out at all somewhere like Langley.[/quote]

No, I'm not from another country, I'm from the midwest where some of our universities have been around for a couple hundred years.  I also have an MA in the Classics (Latin) and an MBA and by any standard am considered "educated and cultured". While you obviously have a lot of pride in UVA, and it's certainly a good school, it's not an important school for most of us outside this area.  Why should it be?  There are excellent colleges/universities all over the US - and UVA is hardly a sports powerhouse which would have generated name recognition.

I have no idea what you mean by the Cornell comment but I'd heard of Cornell long before I ever heard of UVA.[/quote]

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