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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're gonna get into Georgetown from NOVA you're also going to get into UVA.  Why pay double for Georgetown when UVA is a better school?  [/quote]

Er, this is a joke, right? Georgetown is ranked much higher in all the reputable rankings.

This UVA booster really has to shut up.

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Why are people called "strivers" and "boosters" when they challenge you with statistics?  After all, UVA has produced far more Rhodes Scholars than Georgetown. UVA has 55 Rhodes Scholars. Georgetown has only 27.  Does that make me a "booster" to mention that? And what even is a "striver"? That's an idiotic term.  In fact, UVA is the third-highest producer outside the Ivy League of Rhodes Scholars (all private w/ exception of the U.S. Military Academy). Am I a booster or striver for raising that point?

UVA is also the number one public school for producer of Fulbrights; with 22 recipients for 2019-20 and 17 for 2018.

My DD is one of the lucky ones who gets to go to Oxford this fall.  If it had not been for the amazing letters from Dean Groves, and four other UVA professors, and the education in the classics, history and philosophy that she received at UVA, I doubt she would have made it in.  UVA really supports the students who want to do grad work and who want to study abroad.  And we are in-state.  Can't beat that.

There are a lot of UVA students at Oxford and Cambridge right now.  That's all I need to know.  
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It’s not about you, PP. There are a lot more objective criteria, including publication output and quality of research, that go into making the worldwide reputation of an institution. UVA, despite being great at some things, is lacking in others, so it doesn’t measure up to other, more well-rounded, institutions. This is not a diss on UVA but just a cold hard look at all the things that turn a good uni into an excellent uni.[/quote]

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