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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The negative vibes on my lengthy visits  post are upsetting.   These are my kids impressions of their campus tours and remember they were seventeen or so. My comments followed. The Wahoo who  responded so negatively may not have read that my son who did attend law school at UVA  loved it as I duly noted. His jab at the chip on my shoulder about W&M maybe did not catch that three out of four of my children were not  impressed with their visit. The Duke responders should register that I was still in favor of them applying .  This thread was about visits to colleges..not the schools themselves. Everyone kindly sip your wine and back the fork off. [/quote]
I wouldn’t sweat the nutty parents on DCUM, particularly those that crawl out of the woodwork anytime UVA comes up.  I commented once that my kid wanted a west coast SLAC, so didn’t apply to UVA, and a dozen UVA alums jumped in to say variations of « sorry your kid didn’t get in ». I think most people who go to UVA are lovely people, but there are alums on DCUM doing the school a real disservice by being so nutty.   [/quote]

you do realize that most of those people are in fact UVA haters, just looking to stir up trouble and give UVA a bad name. Most of the time, the haters are the ones that bring up UVA at all, doesn't take a genius to see what's going on here.[/quote]

[b]So you are saying they bring UVA up just to get people ticked off at UVA?  Perhaps.  Tough to say.[/quote][/b]

DP - No, it's not that they are "ticked off" - it's because either they didn't get in, or a child didn't get in, or, like us, we learned sophomore or junior year that there was no point in even applying because our kid didn't have the necessary stats.  There's only 3750 slots and just under 50,000 applications this year.  Many of the ED and EA slots went to first-generation, URM, Blue Ridge Scholar, athlete, low-income, legacy, spectacular TJ kids, so the folks you have just good, well-performing unhooked kids are out of luck.  Someone worked out that there are 38,000 applications left for 200 positions or something impossibly difficult like that.  So we pay taxes but never even applied in-state to UVA (DD went to another VA school).  So the pattern I see is that when someone can take a potshot, they do, but it's usually sour grapes.  The other flagships are much larger so there's less rancor, plus Virginia parents really want to take advantage of the in-state tuition unless they have adequate savings (which personally is very difficult to do for three kids at SLACs at $80K a year, like my own).  And, due to Covid, more families than ever need to take advantage of in-state offerings.[/quote]

I think they are saying something different.  There are people on DCUM who bring up UVA in threads where it hadn't been a topic (e.g. discussion on Pomona College) and inject something like "guess you didn't get into UVA".  They could either be an out-of-control pro-UVA jerk, or someone actually trying to give UVA a bad name.[/quote]

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