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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][[b]quote=Anonymous][b][url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TA5wJFtewK_O-jNa1ciRDT-TTNBgSEpBgitpPccDlks/edit#gid=0]I found this post comparing Class of 2022 acceptance rates with Class of 2021 acceptance rates[/url][/b]

Why did UVA get such a small increase in applicants this year than other schools?[/quote][/b]

Why do you look at it a negative, Oh UMD student who didn't get in?  It was a record year for UVA both in EA and RD decisions.  Since 2015, the number of applications have grown 31%.  37,000 applied this year, 1,500 more than the previously.  10,000 bright students are on the waiting list, anxious to take a seat.  There are no issues.  And bringing the race riots into this is unfair both to the administration and students.  I was on campus that day and saw everything that Teresa Sullivan did to keep the alt.-right off the campus but since it is a public university there was little she could do but call the police, who tried to direct the protestors.  I'm reporting the race comments.  I also think you are the same person who started the other "Is UVA going down" thread.[/quote]

[b][b]I am sorry you were on campus that dreadful day, but President Sullivan didn’t do everything she could to protect the students and faculty on campus that day. This Chronicle of Higher Education article describes her missteps -  https://www.chronicle.com/article/Did-UVa-Miss-Signs-of-Looming/240928 - as she reacted very slowly to warnings that the march was headed toward campus. The tiki torches also should have been banned under the school’s rules against open flames on campus. https://www.chronic[/b]le.com/article/Why-Did-UVa-Allow-Banned/241019 So President Sullivan should in no way be praised for actions in August. It’s good that she’s retiring this year.[/quote][/b]

I was there.  You weren't.  Did you bother to notice in The Chronicle that it said "little known rule" about flames?  After the incident the students did vote to ban tiki torches.  On the day it happened no one knew the tiki torches were coming.  Sullivan alerted the proper authorities and had posted and emailed everyone to stay off campus and we did.  So no one was hurt.  I love people who cite to something as insipid as the Chronicle of Higher Education playing armchair President of a University after the fact.  UVA is a public University.  The alt.righters had the right to march to express free speech as abhorrent as we may think they were.  Sullivan handled everything perfectly.  The campus was cleared - the march went on.  No one got hurt - on campus.  Kudos to her.[/quote]

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