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[quote=Anonymous][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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[b]You do know that UVA has about 4.5 times as many students as Georgetown, right? YOur Rhodes Scholars number isn't 4.5 times higher. [/quote[/b]]

No, you are counting in grad students as well.  They cannot apply for the Rhodes. UVA has 17,000 undergrads.  Georgetown has 7,463 Undergrads.  However, you don't know much about the Rhodes because the size of your institution doesn't matter.  You, the applicant, need obtain the sponsorship of your college or university.  Some years, a college won't nominate anyone, because the college wants to put its best forward.  Other years, a college or university might sponsor two.  If sponsored, your application then goes to the regional committee who decides whom they want to interview.  The 2,200 applicants are culled down to a reasonable size and those  30 or so that are considered Rhodes material are invited to a regional meet-and-greet.  Mine was held at Stanford. I represented a very small college of only 1600 students.  The other candidates were Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc., but whom claimed home base in that particular region (a familiar Rhodes trick - don't do regionals in Massachusetts - always return to your home state).  The first night is a meet and greet.  The next day is interviews by the panel.  The third day is a dinner and announcement of the two of those who made it to regional who get to go.  I had just as much of a chance as the Harvard nominees (except that I had not been extensively coached as they had).  To that extent, it's a very fair system, because a brilliant kid with a brilliant proposal of research at Cal State Long Beach has just as much as chance of getting it as does someone from a tiny SLAC or UCLA.  Selection has nothing to do with size of school.[/quote]

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