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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA is unique among publics for the combination of its founders, its architecture, its age, its quality education, including its professional schools, and its strong connections with Ivies. [/quote]
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UVA is actually not as old as Michigan[/b].  It was founded 183 years after Harvard.  I know of no real connection with Ivies.  It is not in the Ivy League.  I also don't think UVA is ranked particularly high in areas like quality of undergraduate teaching.
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Come on, get real.  Michigan was founded in1817,  UVA in 1819.[/quote]

That’s a myth. Michigan was founded in 1841, that was the first day of classes. The 1817 myth was made up in the 1910s when Wisconsin was more prestigious; Michigan felt they had to identify with the “Cathelopistimiad”, a high school founded in Detroit in 1817. It closed in 1827.

Old seals of Michigan often show the date “1837”, marking the university’s establishment in Ann Arbor, but the first day of classes did not begin until the appointment of the first professor, Asa Gray, in 1841.

See, even in the 1910s Michigan students were insecure….[/quote][/quote]

Duke University was founded in 1838 as the Brown School.  After 4 name changes, it became Duke University in 1924.  So that point about Michigan just starting in 1841 is ridiculous.

It’s also funny that the above poster mentions Michigan students being insecure after a sentence where he/she/it mentions the first professor at the university. That’s the definition of insecurity looking up such an esoteric fact.

Wisconsin booster still can’t accept that Michigan overtook Wiscy decades ago.  Wisconsin has also been overtaken by dozens of schools since 1910 through today.  Wisconsin backer should be proud that a public school located in a state with a smaller population did as well as it did so many years ago.  [/quote]

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