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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Well if you and your kid are allowing something an overweight tour guide to influence your decision then none of you is serious or smart enough for UVA anyway.  So you’re doing the school a favor.

Enjoy the mediocrity of ODU, the safety school for VCU. [/quote]

Telling that you are only addressing the overweight criticism, but say nothing about the non stop "ums" and "uhs," nor the upspeak or inappropriate  clothing.

Look, we didn't just show up on campus and start interacting with random people.   In both cases, ODU and UVA, the school chose the dates and times they were available to lead tours.    The schools chose which students they wanted to represent them to prospective students and families.   The caliber of student chosen by ODU far surpassed what UVA chose.  I don't know why UVA chose the way they did, but ODU made good choices.[/quote]

ODU.  Lol.  Ok.  Go there instead of UVA.  That’s a GREAT idea.  [/quote]

I graduated  25 years ago.  I'm not going to any college now or in the future.  My kid can determine for themselves what caliber of student they'd like to be associated with, and they've made it very clear they don't want to be associated with upspeaking uh-ummers who don't know how to dress appropriately. [/quote]

Nice defense mechanism.  [b]The kid ain’t getting in and you know it.[/b]  So just go ahead and blame the fat girl if it makes you feel better.  [/quote]

Of course he isn't because he isn't applying there.  Not worth wasting money on the application fee or fee to send test score.[/quote]

Right.  He isn’t applying because he knows full well [b]he ain’t getting in.[/b] [/quote]

Thanks for proving the tour guide wasn't an anomaly.[/quote]

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