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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVa has the highest graduation rate among public universities, at 91 percent, which may say something very significant about the relative happiness of students. Same as Duke and Georgetown. H[b]owever, it cannot touch Notre Dame at 94 percent. Deal with that.[/quote][/b]

Gosh maybe that has to do with the fact that ND's diversity stats are abysmal.  It's a school for rich catholic kids so, yes, it WOULD have a higher graduation weight just due to demographics.  https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/diversity/.  Meanwhile, UVA has the highest pell grant graduation rate of any school in the nation.  "Deal with that".

"UVA has the highest graduation rate for Pell grant recipients of all major public universities in the country, according to a new Washington Post analysis."[/quote]

Here again, soft majors are easier to graduate from in 4 years. Even Pell recipients graduate from those. [/quote]

This is admittedly a generalization, but my view is UVA does not challenge its undergraduate students enough. This is both a weakness and part of its appeal.  The appeal is it has decent prestige for the level of effort required to graduate in good standing.  The weakness is many graduates don't grow or test themselves as much as they should and alumni achievement is not what it could be.[/quote]

UVA was always known for its grade inflation back in the 90s. Is that still happening?

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Exactly the opposite.[/quote]

+1. Dean of students told me it’s grade deflation now[/quote]

Iy's not a grade deflation. They just have a [b]meh quality students except for few[/b].[/quote]

The 75th percentile of which last year had a 4.51; an ACT of 35 and/or a 1510, which means 25% had higher. Also 10-12 AP courses.[/quote]

T[b]he prior posts were about the GPAs of undergraduates at UVA, not the high school GPA of matriculants.  There has been significant grade inflation over time at both high schools and colleges in the U.S.
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The PP is responding to the PPs allegation that UVA has "meh quality students".  Pointing out the high high school gpa and stats would seem to directly respond to that[/quote]

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