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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]UVA is overrated[/b]. UCB and Michigan are better schools and they want the TJ kids. Obviously it costs more for in-state students. But the experience is worth it.

If UVA is serious about improving its standing, it needs to improve its STEM and engineering programs. It needs recruit more from TJ not less.[/quote]

Don't you ever get tired of posting this stuff?  You are wrong about science and stem.   Even if you were, the Commonwealth has VTech.  And it has W&M for a SLAC experiene.  You really want great engineering and cybersecurity in particular? GMU.  We are blessed with riches in Virginia but you have to pick the university that is right for what you want to do.  UVA is a very small school compared to UCB and Michigan.  There are only so many slots open to in-state Virginians.  For what it's worth my kid did engineering at UVA is now doing electrical engineering grad work at Princeton.

Please read what James RYan has been doing in science and technology and engineering at UVA before you post again.  I'm sorry your kid didn't get in but your uneducated posts aren't helping those on this site you need information. Google UVA engineering.  https://news.virginia.edu/content/engineering-executive-dean-named-vice-provost-research-george-washington.[/quote]

DP. What's tricky for UVA is that UCB and UMichigan are universally considered more prestigious/better schools than UVA. UVA [i]maybe[/i] has a case for being as prestigious as UCLA, but the latter is way more well-known, popular, and it's in sunny LA which means that students will almost unilaterally prefer it. That leaves it at arguably the 4th best public school, a title it shares with UNC, but that simply doesn't really sound as impressive as UVA grads and parents think it does, and isn't helped by the fact that schools like Florida, Georgia Tech, and UCSB are fast approaching the status of UVA and in some circles are already considered more prestigious. Even further, the fact that it shares a state with W&M, another well-known public, doesn't help UVA's case.[/quote]

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