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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people get so worked up about UVA?

The bottom line is that it is a very difficult admit, the overwhelming majority of first year students return, and it has one of the highest four-year graduation rates of any university in the country. So, clearly, it’s attracting and working out for a whole lot of students. [/quote]

At many privates and magnets in Virginia, 20-25% of the student body gets accepted to UVA, making it not difficult and seen as a backup school by the top 10-15%. Add to that the emphasis on sports culture and drinking, the large classes, lack of intellectualism compared to t15/ivy/WAS and it is no surprise it gets a lot of negative posts on DCUM. However it remains very popular and many students thrive there even if they "settled" for UVA rather than desired it as their number 1. [/quote]

You’ve been grinding your axe so long it has become dull and lost its edge. What a bunch of tiresome bullshit.[/quote]

What are these “many privates and magnates?”  A handful, sure, but “many?”

Show your work.  Give us a list.  Sure, there’s TJ, which is probably the most selective public magnet in the country.  But where else in the Commonwealth is UVA a “back up” for the top 15 percent, especially a guaranteed one?

UVA just can’t win.  It’s either knocked for being full of rich kids or as being too good for rich kids.  [/quote]

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