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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA was not a big deal when I went to college in 1997.[/quote]

Agent Starling bragged about going there though.[/quote]

I went to high school in Massachusetts in the 1970s & the first thing that made me aware of UVA was that the Kennedys sent two of their dimmer bulbs [b]to its law school[/b]. Decades ago I assumed that meant its law school was good, but now I think they probably attended because they could make some DC connections & sow a ton of wild oats without offending anyone of importance. [/quote]

Nevertheless, today UVA law is ranked no 4. UVA undergrad is ranked 24 in the nation for all schools and no. 4 best public university.[/quote]

The 4th best public based on metrics that  favor what UVA is good at: producing unintellectual finance bros. UVA is not a leader in higher education, its PhDs fair horribly on the market, and undergraduate research is shoddy and baseless given the lack of notable faculty across disciplines (UVA has a low ranking history and math department, for example)[/quote]

Sources, please. [/quote]

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