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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA culture. Hmmm.

Part middle class nova kid plus old money southern kid plus urm kid from all 50 states.

Add in preppy and fratty. Add in competitive academically. Add in a ton of beer and bourbon.

Add in great soccer, swimming, softball and lacrosse teams, inconsistent basketball teams, and a football team that can be ahead by 21 points but lose the game more times than I can count.

I’m proud to have gone there but I developed a bad relationship with alcohol and dating/ hookup culture that it took me years to overcome. Could have happened at any d1 party school but I think UVA’s fraternity and drinking culture is especially toxic.

People do think I, smart and add IQ points when I say I went there though. [/quote]

Do you think this is all still the case in 2024?  Admissions to UVA has become MUCH harder and I would think leans heavily to the brainy over simply the monied (like every top20 school in 2024 vs 2000 or 1996).  There are no more legacy admissions so you're either top 10% instate or top of your out-of-state school.

I have a smart kid who is actually looking for a pretty mainstream university experience (what you describe hopefully minus most of the toxicity of the drinking and hook-up culture).[/quote]

Uva admits people with 1350-1450 instate regularly, for private high schools admits down into the 3rd or 4th decile. Above average smarts is their majority. That is not brainy nor highly intellectual, it is standard-strong. Similar to Michigan UCLA USC Wake. There is a larger group of super-brainiacs than there are at T75 range schools, but it is not vloseto the majority as it is at T15/ivy.[/quote]

+1 I had a UVA freshmen tell me that this week—classmates are average.  Not super smart. A lot of grade inflated Nova public kids [/quote]

He doesn’t sound very bright himself if he is basing an entire school on his first year introductory classes and judging kids he barely knows in the 4 months he’s been there. [/quote]

You might not like it, but I e heard the same and also from my recent UVA grad.  He was at a private and found UVA to be much easier than high school and not as bright. [/quote]

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