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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][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]

Bruh. Just look at the UNSWR department rankings. History=30s, math=40s, any language that exists other than English=unranked, engineering=30/, philosophy=unranked. Was not an AAU founding member, and not admitted until 1923 (IU joined more than a decade before it).

Notice how almost all of UVA’s alumni before 1950 earn undergrad or graduate L.L.Bs

That my friends is a trade school[/quote]

UVA is a highly ranked and well respected school. Deal with it. [/quote]

It is ranked and well respected exclusively due to its trade schools which create an upper middle southern class (lawyers, finance bros). It is not at all good at pure academics, nor respected by pure academics ( as seen by its peer reputation score on various departments by academics)

UW Madison does literally everything better than UVA does, while having a robust pure academic tradition. 1. It’s more historically prestigious (AAU founding member). 2. It’s cheaper and more accessible ( as a public university should be 3. All of its academic departments ( and I do mean all, humanities and stem) significantly outrank UVA. 4. Its alumni outcomes produce alumni as diverse as the most Fortune 500 ceos, to leading humanities academics like Yale’s David W Blight.[/quote]

As I stated, DEAL WITH IT. You or your kid must have been rejected by UVA. Stop. It’s not a good look. [/quote]

+1.  She goes on and on and "trade school" which is absurd and indicates a mental health issue. If you want a VA trade school, look to Virginia Tech. You can study all sorts if "trades" there, not UVA[/quote]

Wow, you just did the same thing to Tech that the PP did to UVa.

That seems...hypocritical.[/quote]

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