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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The UVA thing amuses me. I'm sure it's a great school but I'm pretty sure there's a rule that alums have to say that they went to UVA within 5 minutes of meeting you. They do NOT keep their candle under a bushel.[/quote]

Yes!  Their certainly is a pervasive arrogance at UVA.  Don't ever ask a current student if she's a freshman, either.  You'll get a snotty, immediate correction of "first year." So very self important and smug.  This haughty attitude applies to parents of UVA students, too.  They are quick with the UVA-specific lingo corrections and "name dropping."

I am old enough to remember when UVA students doctored their school's standard car window sticker.  Instead of The University of Virginia only "The University" would go onto the window.  Ugh.[/quote]

That's pretty harsh.  I think the combination of being a top-ranked school and being a state school perhaps can give rise to a mix of pride and insecurity.  So maybe there's a heavy-handed effort by some to push the "public Ivy" stuff, whereas everyone knows that Harvard is an Ivy, or that Maryland is a good state school that doesn't try to pass itself off as Yale.

My own impressions are that the "grounds" are beautiful but that, once you move past that area, U. Va. isn't too different from any other large state university.  Most of the dorms and off-campus housing are similar to what you'd find anywhere else, and other college towns have more to offer than Charlottesville.   [/quote]

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