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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]UVA[/b][/quote]

Do they really?  Is the alumni network strong and supportive?  How about the percent of alumni giving?  Just asking. (All the parent I know love it because of the in-state tuition, oh, and they were national champs last year in men's basketball)[/quote]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2018/08/21/grateful-grads-2018-200-colleges-with-the-happiest-most-successful-alumni/#34da262e1a0a

UVA does NOT make the list.[/quote]

I saw that!  I'm guessing the parents of in-state students love it for the price tag, but the students not so much.[/quote]Do you not THINK before you post? What schools are at the top of the list? The small expensive privates where only the wealthy and scholarship kids can now afford to attend ergo the wealthy donate and the poor graduates do not (especially because their own parents were not in a position to donate to their own schools, if they attended college at all. So what might you expect to be in the lower end if this list? The large publics whose job it is to service the needs of ALL of the students in the state. Simply by definition you are going to have more cost-conscious families ( like ours) who watch every dime in the public universities  but that has nothing to do with university spirit or alumni connections. It is also the mission of public universities to turn out new members of the service industry, as UVA does, in the less well-paid careers of nursing, teaching and lower paying government service.[/quote]

Top 15 for "Students Love These Colleges" in Princeton Review:

Vanderbilt
Tulane
Kansas State
Brown
Wisconsin
William & Mary
Lehigh
Virginia Tech
Clemson
Auburn
Emory
Olin
Williams
Wash U
Dayton[/quote]

Interesting mix.[/quote]

And only VA has two states on the list.  The best STEM school and the best LAC in the state.  UVA must be crying.   [/quote]

This list is not about alums for one thing but about current students.  Not a very data driven compilation either.
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I think Princeton Review does surveys.  [/quote]

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