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[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]

Well said.  NP with no skin in this game.  It boils down to the haters needing to hate to mitigate their own insecurities. When people try so hard to put something down, it says much more about them and their issues than it does about the thing they're trying to step on.[/quote]

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