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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if this addresses your question, but the UVA grads I know might be perfectly nice and/or capable, but any of that is overshadowed by their cockyness. I mean, it's not Harvard, or even close.  I feel like grads from better schools seem far less cocky.  This gives me a negative impression, YMMV.[/quote]

Same. I was at a party recently with a 40ish yo UVA married couple who kept going on and one about UVA and Thomas Jefferson and blah blah blah.  I kept nodding out of politeness and the wife asked how I know the hosts. I said I went to college with the wife.  Oops the husband works with her so they know we went to HYP.  They quickly stopped bragging.  20 years out….who cares?[/quote]

Sounds like a couple I met recently who went to UVA. Couldn't stop talking about UVA. [/quote]

I never hear adults talking about where they went to college.  It doesn't usually come up.  Now that my kids are in college/applying to college it only comes up in that context.

[b]You need to socialize with a different crowd. [/quote][/b]

+1.  I've never heard ANYONE in the DCUM area brag on or be cocky about UVA.  Why?  because it is filled with Ivy types like the PP above who slammed the alleged UVA bragger about going to HYP.  No one would set themselves up that way.  All of this stuff about cockiness is made up by bashers or VA Tech rivals.  Or students who know there is no point in applying (like my DC) because they don't have the stats.  Or kids who apply but don't get in.  It's tiring.  I live in Charlottesville and have never seen this.  Many hard-working UVA kids have waited on my table or served me in stores.  I have never seen cockyness[/quote]

[b]Maybe you got used to it living in Charlottsville. UVA grads act like they graduated from Harvard when they graduated from UVA.   [/quote][/b]

[b]DP.  Not true at all.  THINK.  How can 24,000 students (a year, including grad students) all be classified by a stereotype?  It's an absurd allegation.[/quote][/b]

THIS.  It's an absurd myth perpetuated by angry parents and students whose kids didn't get in, didn't even have the stats to apply, and taxpayers who are angry their kids aren't contenders for UVA - which is a comparatively small school next to UCLA, Berkeley and Michigan.  I've never once heard anyone in the DC area brag on about UVA.  That would be an extremely dangerous thing to do considering how overeducated DC types are.  It just doesn't make sense except for envy.[/quote]

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