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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD was really turned off by the attitude presented at the UVA tour.  Elitism without the chomps to back it up.  She felt that they were trying to present everyone is an extrovert future leader.  My DD wants to save the world through science, not policy.

She was accepted to UVA, Tech, W & M (and every other school she applied to except Cornell).  She is going to Tech.[/quote]

We had quite the opposite experience. Our tour guide was very down to earth and spoke to us about how even thought she wanted to get into UVA all her life had a really tough first year trying to find her people and told us how she ended up navigating friendships and finding a group that she could gel with. She spoke about how Greek life wasn’t all that important and that rush was only in second semester so that everyone got to get to know everyone else. I thought it was a realistic wonderful tour. Unlike the pretentious one we saw at UPenn among others. Our DD who had heard a lot of bad things about the culture actually ended up really liking the school and was excited to apply. [/quote]

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