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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You could actually got glue before you insult. Not a booster, but with a 97 percent first year retention rate, UVA is in the top 20 of universities in the US holding on to their students. But, if PP is miserable, she should have transferred out.[/quote]

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