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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Usually because they can’t get into UVA.  Then they lie to themselves and others and say they wanted an “out of state experience.”[/quote]
Not everyone wants to go to UVA.
We are in Virginia and my senior won't even be applying to UVA.  We visited over the summer and our experience was awful.   Our visit to Old Dominion University last fall was actually an OUTSTANDING experience.   Based on our two experiences I have no idea why UVA has a better reputation.[/quote]

Look, I’m sorry.  Nobody with a chance at UVA admission also visits ODU.   THAT’S why you’ve decided UVA is awful and ODU is outstanding.  You’re fooling no one but yourself.  Let’s not do this again, ok?[/quote]

Go ahead and believe that if it makes you feel better.[/quote]

NP here. PP is right and you are being obtuse. Deliberately, most likely. The two schools have nothing in common in terms of prestige, environment, programs of study, or rigor. One is Uber competitive admissions and the other accepts 96% of applicants.

This doesn’t mean they aren’t both fine schools. It just means their target applicant pools are wildly different.[/quote]

I'm not being obtuse.
Our guide at UVA was overweight and wearing daisy dukes and an extremely low cut shirt.   She punctuated every single sentence with "um" and used "uh" as a comma in about half of them.  She "upspoke" the entire time.
The ODU students were dressed in appropriate business casual.  They were confident and articulate. 
The difference was night and day. 
If our guide is not representative of the UVA "target applicant pool" I can't imagine why she was chosen as a guide.[/quote]

Great way to choose a college.[/quote]

DP
It’s a valid reason. [/quote]

PP with the bad UVA tour experience here
Yes, I agree.
We were honestly surprised.   With my kid's stats, it seems like UVA is within reach, but still-a reach.   We went down there expecting to be just completely blown away and impressed with how amazing UVA is.   I thought my kid would LOVE it and that we'd have to talk about how necessary it would be to apply ED and work all summer on an amazing essay, and to still keep expectations low, etc.
Instead we were blown away on how incompetent the student tour staff members were.   Our specific tour guide wasn't our only bad experience there.
Maybe ODU only puts out their very best to lead the tours, and UVA puts out their very worst?   But even if that's the case, that certainly says a lot about a university.[/quote]

Your kid feels that way as a defense mechanism.  Doesn’t want to get their hopes up and not get in.  [/quote]

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