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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to UVa and hated it.  I don't want my own teen to go there because of my bad experience.  It was just so snobby and unfriendly.[/quote]

Yet UVA has the highest freshmen retention rate among public universities by far and a graduation rate that rivals the Ivies and other top privates.  Somebody there must like it.[/quote]

I was the PP who hated UVa.  What's the retention rate got to do with it?  I graduated.  I even had good grades.  I was just really unhappy for 4 years.  [/quote]

I get it.  But how can you be so sure that your miserableness was UVA's fault and not your own?  [/quote]

Imagine being so insecure about a college that you have to question someone like this. [/quote]

Maybe, one day, there can be a post that UVA boosters don't nasty.[/quote]

The retention rate point is relevant because the PP who hated UVA could have transferred as did my UVA kid’s roommate. I don’t know why he transferred but he went back to Utah. FWIW my DS lived UVA as did all of his friends but you have to be a self-starter and find your group of friends [/quote]

Once again the retention rate at UVA is not any/much better than most of the top public universities.  UVA boosters like to make up their own realities. [/quote]

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