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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is a first year and wears only athletic shorts and sweatpants. He owns one pair of khakis. Is loving UVA and fitting in very well with a diverse group of kids from his dorm and classes. Joined a couple of clubs and is very happy while still being himself.

He did wear a polo to the football game when we came down to visit.  Should I be worried that he's snobby now?[/quote]

You're missing the entire point of this thread.  What is your son's background.  Is he white?  UMC?  [/quote]

Not at all.  People want to paint an entire university with the same brush. Are there affluent white NOVA kids (or non-white, non-affluent, non-NOVA kids as well) at UVA who announce or define their affluence and desired social status by wearing quarter zips and khakis all day long??  Of course there are.  But there are also tons of kids there who don't fit that mold at all.  And those kids also fit in perfectly well, many times, right along side the quarter-zippers. [/quote]

+1. There are 26,000 students there, from all socio-economic classes and races, and poor from rural counties, and 50 states and the internationals. Those parents whose kids didn’t get in go off on this bizarre eitism argument but, in most cases, have never been on campus.

FwIW my UVA kid wore cargo shorts, a T shirt and hiking boots his first year. Why? H@LL if I know, but he was comfortable that way. None of his friends was “elite” or “snobby”. I met a great many of them and served as mentor to two.[/quote]

Again, you're missing the point because you're not recognizing your own privilege.  Yes, there are all types at UVA, but the happiest ones are the ones who come from privilege.  Privilege gives them the freedom to eschew the elitism that's endemic to UVA because if that's what they wanted they could always do it.  That's not the case with the non-privileged.  They're on the outside looking in, not on the inside looking out.[/quote]

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