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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA is prestigious.  Michigan is prestigious.  Notre Dame is prestigious.  None is the Ivy League, Stanford, or Chicago, but remove them from the list and you're not going to get much more prestige out of an undergraduate degree from a research university.  We all know it and are splitting hairs.[/quote]

I agree with you that they are all great schools and that people here are splitting hairs. What I disagree about is that they are prestigious. What do you really mean by that? Do you mean that you can feel superior to others if you went there? Or, if your kid goes there? That somehow attaching that name to your resume should signal intelligence? Here's the thing, no undergrad does that. Show me a CV of someone who went to Harvard undergrad and the answer is "But, where did they go to grad school?". [b]If there is no grad school, having just a BS or BA looks just as unimpressive no matter where it is from[/b] (well, in the top 200 or so).

So, is UVA a good school? Yes. Can your kid get a good education there, and at a bargain if you are in state? Yes. Should you feel that it somehow is superior to any of these other schools and gives you the right to brag to your neighbors? You can try, but I'm not impressed.  [/quote]

You're just being contrarian and silly.  It's like saying Sidwell isn't a prestigious high school because none of the kids there have gone to college yet.  We're not talking about an individual's resume, we are talking about the prestige of an undergraduate program generally.  And obviously when a school's undergraduate program produces 50 Rhodes Scholars for graduate study and routinely sends it graduates to top law, busniess, medical and graduate programs it's a prestigious undergraduate program.

Sorry your kid didn't get in.[/quote]

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