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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NOVA parent with DCs at both Michigan and UVA (and also a Michigan and Ivy alum), offering some subjective opinions on the two schools.

Michigan

1.  As discussed, Michigan was open to admitting Jews and later Asians who were blocked from the Ivies.  Many of these folks were full pay, and their families became loyal to the school.
2. Yes, there are some very wealthy folks from Grosse Pointe, etc., but also from Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Traverse City. The old money stayed.
3. Michigan has a large, with many full pay, international student population.
4. Michigan has lots of Federal and industry research money coming in.
5. There are a few celeb kids (kids of Obama, Madonna, Eminem, Kelly Ripa, Jake Tapper, etc.) but of course not all stay (although I heard Eminem's kid was a very good student).

The place thus has more like an NE/California (but not the weather!) vibe than most of surrounding area because of the OOS folks.  And many of the in-state folks are pretty wealthy.

Virginia

1. Jefferson and his crowd were pretty rich.  Rich Southerners have sent their kids to Charlottesville for generations.  [b]UVA has its own resort and polo club![/b]
2.  Charlottesville has some pretty high net worth people in the surrounding countryside.
3. UVA has been popular with the NE prep school and day school crowd also for generations.  UVA admissions has a couple of regional reps who focus on this market.
4. There are Asians, but they are more likely to be in-state folks (like us). UVA has fewer international students but is looking to increase them.
5. UVA for a long time gave cheap in-state tuition for grad school to folks who lived in Virginia for a year and paid taxes. A lot of value-minded Ivy grads worked in DC but lived in Arlington and Alexandria to get in-state tuition for law or business school. This ended a while ago, though. But these folks are still loyal to UVA.
6. UVA acts more like a private school in terms of parent communications and overall attitude.  Michigan really felt like the massive public school that it is.

UVA thus feels more WASPy, old money than Michigan.  But it still feels very wealthy indeed.
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I live there and this is not true.[/quote]

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