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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Proves UVA is a regional university. Nobody in the Midwest or in New England or out West dreams of attending UVA. Berkeley and Michigan and UCLA have clout -- UVA just doesn't.
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I also don't understand Emory's top 20 spot. We toured Emory and it seemed to be lacking funding.[/quote]

Then explain how UVA wound up a world-class school on this ranking system for global recognition.  http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/671264.page. No one pays attention to WSJ.[/quote]

[b]UVA is filled with rich kids. It's the least socioeconomically diverse flagship university in the country. The average household income for a student at UVA is the top 19 percentile. No 
top public enrolls more students from the top 1%. Couple that with the fact it is one of the larger schools and of course it'll show up.

Those billionaire rankings speak nothing about the institution itself. [/quote][/b]

Sources please.  This is false.  Maybe true for Duke, not for UVA, a state school.  93.4% of UVA's class is in the top 10% of their graduating classes, have ACTs 331-34 and GPA of 4.26 or better. And how that equates to wealth? ACtually, UVA's incoming class of 2021 had the largest number of financially challenged students ever, and the largest number of minorities ever. Remember UVA shies away from taking students from the northern part of the state. Most of Virginia is quite poor. I have a student there. He doesn't have a car and probably never will on his parent's dime. He lives in a dorm of four. He has URM classmates. He struggles to get by financially. He doesn't do the greek scene. He's fiscally responsible and he adores UVA. He doesn't know a single "rich kid" student.  Please don't post if you don't know what you are talking about.
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