Anonymous
Post 10/15/2020 11:39     Subject: What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Univ of Va
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2020 00:46     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another way of phrasing this thread:

Which school makes me the most bitter because my kid didn't get in?



Definitely UVA then. My DC had a 1520 and 4.39 GPA and didn't get into UVA. Incredibly frustrating.


No. My kid wasn’t interested in uva but I think it’s definitely overrated in nova.


When we moved to NoVA from overseas, I was so confused by all these people behaving like Virginia Tech was something special. It's literally completely unknown outside of VA.


My in-laws from London didn't know a single college in Virginia. So not unique to Virginia Tech. But think about it -- I knew Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, perhaps St. Andrews due to Prince William, maybe a few others from the entirety of the UK.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 21:48     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Duke. Spoiled rich kids tutored to the test. In real life, meh, meh, meh.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 21:36     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another way of phrasing this thread:

Which school makes me the most bitter because my kid didn't get in?


Definitely UVA then. My DC had a 1520 and 4.39 GPA and didn't get into UVA. Incredibly frustrating.
-+1. But 75th percentile of students attending last year had a 4.49. From Nova you really have to be over that mark.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 20:43     Subject: What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
I love how the OP keeps posting NYU and UVA over and over. This is personal people! Her kid really didn’t get into thosev2 schools. Or didn’t get into UVA and she can’t afford NYU
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 20:36     Subject: What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt
Emory
Notre Dame
UVA
NYU
Tulane

You must have went to Umich lol.


Have went. Awesome.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 18:51     Subject: What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
People in Virginia are delusional about uva and vatech.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 18:50     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another way of phrasing this thread:

Which school makes me the most bitter because my kid didn't get in?



Definitely UVA then. My DC had a 1520 and 4.39 GPA and didn't get into UVA. Incredibly frustrating.


No. My kid wasn’t interested in uva but I think it’s definitely overrated in nova.


When we moved to NoVA from overseas, I was so confused by all these people behaving like Virginia Tech was something special. It's literally completely unknown outside of VA.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 18:16     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another way of phrasing this thread:

Which school makes me the most bitter because my kid didn't get in?


Definitely UVA then. My DC had a 1520 and 4.39 GPA and didn't get into UVA. Incredibly frustrating.


Wow. I'd be annoyed too if my kid with those states didn't get into our in state flagship.


Virginia Tech is also a state flagship.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 17:04     Subject: What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
UVA
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 12:20     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another way of phrasing this thread:

Which school makes me the most bitter because my kid didn't get in?


Definitely UVA then. My DC had a 1520 and 4.39 GPA and didn't get into UVA. Incredibly frustrating.


I think UVA is a very good school but I would agree overrated in DC metro because 1) there is a big obsession with admission to UVA in the DCUM orbit (that doesn't seem nearly so strong outside of it) and 2) the data I have seen suggests it doesn't really make that much different in outcomes for lifetime earnings or career satisfaction between UVA and other likely alternatives. For initial earnings, at least, the choice of major is much more important.

Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 11:41     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another way of phrasing this thread:

Which school makes me the most bitter because my kid didn't get in?



Definitely UVA then. My DC had a 1520 and 4.39 GPA and didn't get into UVA. Incredibly frustrating.


No. My kid wasn’t interested in uva but I think it’s definitely overrated in nova.


Where did your kid end up going?


Berkeley.


Yuck. I hate Berkeley. Liberal cesspool.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 11:37     Subject: What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
UVA
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 11:36     Subject: What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt
Emory
Notre Dame
UVA
NYU
Tulane

You must have went to Umich lol.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 11:21     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Another way of phrasing this thread:

Which school makes me the most bitter because my kid didn't get in?


Definitely UVA then. My DC had a 1520 and 4.39 GPA and didn't get into UVA. Incredibly frustrating.


Wow. I'd be annoyed too if my kid with those states didn't get into our in state flagship.