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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA boosters are virulently rabid, incredibly condescending, and high-key annoying, which lowers many people's opinion of the school itself. If its grads and boosters were less foolishly arrogant, denigrating schools it mistakenly believes to be beneath it, we'd be singing a different tune.[/quote]

For some reason it attracts strange and unlikeable people. There is serious mental illness involved.[/quote]

Seriously. Rest of the world thinks of UVA is just another state school, akin to the University of Georgias and Penn States of the world. UVA boosters will aggressively claim that it's better than any private school in the country save for half of the Ivies, and belittle all who disagree with them in the same breath. Very odd behavior.[/quote]

This simply is not true - or if it is, it just applies to those who attend public universities. I admit I come from a long line of private school alumni, but everyone I know considers UVA to be an elite public, and strong alternate to the best of the privates. This is at a level that few but the best privates can compete (ie Berkley, UCLA, and a select few others). Any assertion that UVA is just another public is based in ignorance. [/quote]

I disagree.  I am an alum and I have found that outside of the DMV, the UVA name has very little cache.  Certainly we are nothing compared to UCLA or even, dare I say it, Michigan or UNC.  I am proud of my affiliation with the UVA but I'm not gonna lie...most people outside of the DMV think we're like any other state school in the country.  We could be UMiss for all they care.[/quote]

The word is cachet and you are not an alumnus.[/quote]

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