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Anonymous wrote:^I think UVA has aspirations to be considered the top destination for ivy and ivy-equivalent rejects. This aspiration and being a state school do not go hand in hand.

Why not? UVA tracks with UCLA and Berkeley now. Depending on the ratings it is second or third in the state school line-up.

UVa wants to compete with the privates that have traditionally been the next-best choice by ivy rejects (i.e. Vandy, Rice, Emory, GU, WUSTL, ND etc).

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Anonymous wrote:^I think UVA has aspirations to be considered the top destination for ivy and ivy-equivalent rejects. This aspiration and being a state school do not go hand in hand.

Why not? UVA tracks with UCLA and Berkeley now. Depending on the ratings it is second or third in the state school line-up.

Ugh exactly my point...UVa has not been behaving like a state school precisely because it is pursuing this objective.

And U.S. News. http://provost.virginia.edu/us-news-gives-uva-no-2-public-university-ranking

And before you scream, here's the No. 2 post. UVA is consistently no. 2 or 3 in best public universities in America. https://news.virginia.edu/content/kiplinger-names-uva-no-2-best-value-among-public-universities

Anonymous wrote:^I think UVA has aspirations to be considered the top destination for ivy and ivy-equivalent rejects. This aspiration and being a state school do not go hand in hand.

Why not? UVA tracks with UCLA and Berkeley now. Depending on the ratings it is second or third in the state school line-up.

^I think UVA has aspirations to be considered the top destination for ivy and ivy-equivalent rejects. This aspiration and being a state school do not go hand in hand.

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Anonymous wrote:Now this is betting really hilarious. The UVA boosters are using the recent success of the men’s basketball team as a further indication of the greatness of the school. And I even like their team and their coach but be careful about opening Pandora’s box here with using athletics to prove your points of academic greatness. UVA isn’t all squeaky clean either.

I'm the one who asked about March Madness. I'm genuinely curious about whether people think that might affect their popularity.

Sorry if it came off as booster-ish. I didn't go there.

Yes, of course it will. It’ll make people’s heads spin. And along with that, it’ll be even harder to gain acceptance. The true golden ticket in nova.

Sprry, my autocorrect has issues

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Anonymous wrote:Now this is betting really hilarious. The UVA boosters are using the recent success of the men’s basketball team as a further indication of the greatness of the school. And I even like their team and their coach but be careful about opening Pandora’s box here with using athletics to prove your points of academic greatness. UVA isn’t all squeaky clean either.

Only 11:35 said it. But UVA is no. 1 in basketball and drawing superior players with state-of-the-art facilities is smart.

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Being good in basketball and winning March Madness will probably equate to more name recognition and an increase in applicants next year and possible the year after that. BTW Tony Bennett doesn’t recruit the super star players and McDonald’s all American high schoolers, so you’re wrong about that. Again I do like the team and he current coach so this isn’t a dog on UVA. But be careful with saying UVA is so amazing and drawing the star academics because of a strong athletic program when these boosters are the first to make disparaging statements about UNC, etc and their athletic program. UVA has had issues too for decades, most major big schools with strong atheletics do. Some are pretty bad (like Louisville), some not.

I do think a strong athletic program builds on a strong school spirit environment making it a funner place to go to college. Which can only be a plus.

Anonymous wrote:Now this is betting really hilarious. The UVA boosters are using the recent success of the men’s basketball team as a further indication of the greatness of the school. And I even like their team and their coach but be careful about opening Pandora’s box here with using athletics to prove your points of academic greatness. UVA isn’t all squeaky clean either.

I'm the one who asked about March Madness. I'm genuinely curious about whether people think that might affect their popularity.

Sorry if it came off as booster-ish. I didn't go there.

Anonymous wrote:Now this is betting really hilarious. The UVA boosters are using the recent success of the men’s basketball team as a further indication of the greatness of the school. And I even like their team and their coach but be careful about opening Pandora’s box here with using athletics to prove your points of academic greatness. UVA isn’t all squeaky clean either.

Only 11:35 said it. But UVA is no. 1 in basketball and drawing superior players with state-of-the-art facilities is smart.

Anonymous wrote:Now this is betting really hilarious. The UVA boosters are using the recent success of the men’s basketball team as a further indication of the greatness of the school. And I even like their team and their coach but be careful about opening Pandora’s box here with using athletics to prove your points of academic greatness. UVA isn’t all squeaky clean either.

This.

I went to Oregon when they were a mid-tier, but up-and-coming and generally respected school with hilariously bad sports teams. Now they boast nationally-ranked football and basketball programs with facilities that put some pro teams to shame, but their academics have stagnated.

Anonymous wrote:Now this is betting really hilarious. The UVA boosters are using the recent success of the men’s basketball team as a further indication of the greatness of the school. And I even like their team and their coach but be careful about opening Pandora’s box here with using athletics to prove your points of academic greatness. UVA isn’t all squeaky clean either.

+1 lol....UVA boosters are clowns.

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of schools in Virginia to serve the unwashed masses. UVA doesn’t need to be one of them.

Bitch.

Wahhh! My low stats kid was rejected from UVA in favor of a higher stats OOS kid. Pity me!

Actually, I don't have any kids applying to college right now, and DS would probably get in if he wanted to go there, which he doesn't. You're just being a bitch.

You have no idea how difficult it is to get into UVA today. And calling someone a bitch is not nice and a bigoted stereotype.

I do, and you have no idea what my kid's qualifications are. Also, if people don't want to be called bitches, then they shouldn't act like bitches. Seems pretty simple to me.

Now this is betting really hilarious. The UVA boosters are using the recent success of the men’s basketball team as a further indication of the greatness of the school. And I even like their team and their coach but be careful about opening Pandora’s box here with using athletics to prove your points of academic greatness. UVA isn’t all squeaky clean either.