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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not about the numbers and scores. It's about how the grads think the world revolves around UVa. Seriously, UVa grads think it's equal to Harvard. It's not. It just one of many state universities.[/quote]

No, UVA grads think it's equal to Berkeley or Michigan. It's not. They are delusional.[/quote]

I get the sense that people enjoy putting schools just outside the top-tier in their place,  reminding anyone who will listen that it's not HYP (says the Ivy grad) or that it's not Michigan or Berkeley (says the striving UCLA grad). It definitely isn't like other high-end publics when it comes to research dollars and pulling great faculty, but that arguably makes its ranking even more interesting.

In the end, there's a population who likes it and, really, that's fine. I'm not trying to scream can't we all just get along, but why is it so important to get anonymous people you don't know to admit that a shook you didn't attend isn't "really" that good? [/quote]

This isn’t a big mystery. Those who put UVA down on this forum are mostly people from Maryland envious of UVA’s higher ranking compared to UMD, rounded out by miscellaneous people whose own kids got rejected from UVA.[/quote]

This isn't accurate.  I'm from Virginia and my kids haven't been rejected from UVA.  I have no clue whether they will or won't be.  Right now my DC has a 4.0 unweighted gpa.  Again, I have no clue if this will continue.  What's off putting is the constant reference of UVA as a "public Ivy."  I think it's a good school, but its students and grads are very pretentious.  It's off putting.  [/quote]

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