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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA.  I had been on grounds many times just touring the area and both DS and I really wanted to love it.  Maybe it was our tour guide.  He told us nothing positive about the school - negative, negative, negative.  He said the food is awful.  If you wanted to go to a men's basketball game, you had to go to sports that never get spectators to earn "points" which you then use to bid on basketball tickets.  He said you had to secure your housing for sophomore year about a month after you start your first year.  Yes, I realize at bigger schools you need to find housing in the fall, but a month into school, you're just getting acclimated and this was a big turn-off.    DS ended up only applying to smaller schools: 4,000 to 10,000 range.[/quote]

Pretty bad tour guide because all of those statements are false. Even the food isn’t as bad as people say.[/quote]

Different poster here, DD and I toured UVA last month and we were told the exact same thing. 
FWIW, our tour was also super crappy. We were not shown much of the campus, of sorry, [i]the grounds[/i]  :roll: , and she didn't tell us much. Yet, it's DD's #1 choice. [/quote]

well guess you had the same tour guide. My kids go there and 1. You absolutely do not have to secure housing a month in. Apartments are still widely available by spring, even summer if that is where they want to be. 50% of second years live in on grounds housing. 2. My kids do not hate the food.  Is it gourmet, no, but it's tolerable and they are eating. 3. You earn points towards bball games by going to any sports, including football.  [/quote]

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