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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's baffling that Michigan and UNC are ranked so high compared to UVA. In Virginia, [b]Michigan is regarded as a safety school [/b]and UVA is much better. UVA has a much lower acceptance rate and the SAT scores are much higher, this ranking is a joke.[/quote]

UVA is a public ivy and Michigan is a safety for public ivy.[/quote]

Only in Virginia would people say this nonsense.[/quote]

NP here.  There is mno such thing as a "public ivy", and if you use that phrase, it makes you seem uneducated/ignorant/uninformed.  [/quote] I don’t particularly care for or agree with the term, but it is a real thing. “The term was first coined in 1985 by Yale University admissions officer Richard Moll, who published Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. That initial list included eight universities and nine runners-up.[1] In 2001, college guide authors Howard Greene and Matthew Greene, released their own book, The Public Ivies: The Great State Colleges and Universities,[3] which included 30 schools.[2]”.[/quote]
Yes, a guy made up the term in the ‘80s to sell a book, and some other guys jumped on the bandwagon because they too saw the potential to make money from gullible strivers, the sort of people who use this term on the internet today. [/quote]

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