Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 07:49     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA, VT and W&M represent 50% of the schools south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi worth attending.


What out of UNC, Wake, W&L, Emory, Georgetown, JHU, Duke, Davidson, USNA, Georgia Tech, Florida, etc. are not worth attending?


Georgetown, JHU, and Duke would be the other 50%

Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 04:21     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.


UVA was built by enslaved people. What about W&M (possibly) and VT (maybe too new?)



YES, William & Mary, too. Vt wasn’t established until 1872. However, other schools were built by enslaved people: Brown, Columbia, Barnard, Dartmouth, Barnard, U Penn, Hamilton, Harvard, Harvard Law, Johns Hopkins and Princeton, Rutgers, Furman and Yale. All of these case studies can be found in the wiki article “Slavery at American Colleges and Universities”. Stanford studies also discuss slavery at Oberlin, Emory, and Alabama


Et tu, OBERLIN!!
Anonymous
Post 02/07/2026 02:52     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA, VT and W&M represent 50% of the schools south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi worth attending.


What out of UNC, Wake, W&L, Emory, Georgetown, JHU, Duke, Davidson, USNA, Georgia Tech, Florida, etc. are not worth attending?


Emory
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 18:52     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:UVA, VT and W&M represent 50% of the schools south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi worth attending.


What out of UNC, Wake, W&L, Emory, Georgetown, JHU, Duke, Davidson, USNA, Georgia Tech, Florida, etc. are not worth attending?
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 18:22     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.


UVA was built by enslaved people. What about W&M (possibly) and VT (maybe too new?)



YES, William & Mary, too. Vt wasn’t established until 1872. However, other schools were built by enslaved people: Brown, Columbia, Barnard, Dartmouth, Barnard, U Penn, Hamilton, Harvard, Harvard Law, Johns Hopkins and Princeton, Rutgers, Furman and Yale. All of these case studies can be found in the wiki article “Slavery at American Colleges and Universities”. Stanford studies also discuss slavery at Oberlin, Emory, and Alabama
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 18:00     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.


UVA was built by enslaved people. What about W&M (possibly) and VT (maybe too new?)


Harvard sits atop stolen land.


Harvard and all of the ivies were built by enslaved people. Please read the Wikipedia article on U.S. Colleges and Universities and Skavery. It provides a list of colleges.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 17:02     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
UVA, VT and W&M represent 50% of the schools south of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi worth attending.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 16:48     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is OP real? It’s not that hard to understand, especially UVA. UVA is an elite school at a bargain price for families who do not qualify for financial aid at private schools. Add in its historical significance, school spirit, sports, area alumni, weather, and proximity to home and it’s an obvious choice for many.

W&M is similarly an excellent school at a great price relative to similar privates. W&M has many of the same additional benefits as UVA, save the sports, but add smaller class size.

I’d ask OP which colleges they would recommend that offer the same education for the same price with no financial or merit aid. When I run my finger down the USNWR list, I don’t find one.


OP is clearly a bitter troll. She is feigning ignorance just to troll Virginia parents.

Seems to be working.


+2
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 16:46     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.


UVA was built by enslaved people. What about W&M (possibly) and VT (maybe too new?)


Harvard sits atop stolen land.


That case could be made for every college in the U.S.


- and Billie Eilish’s mansion

Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 16:39     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Entire country is on stolen land.


Not manhattan, we bought it for seashells!


Even Manhattan. The Native Americans thought it was more or less a lease and the land would be returned.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 16:28     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.


UVA was built by enslaved people. What about W&M (possibly) and VT (maybe too new?)


Yes, stick to for profit online schools and avoid self-flagellation over centuries of old history nobody alive today had anything to do with. Be sure to avoid buying German, Italian, and Japanese cars and products, too, lest memories of WWII fail to occupy your daily focus.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 16:19     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:Entire country is on stolen land.


Not manhattan, we bought it for seashells!
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 15:48     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Entire country is on stolen land.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 14:54     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.


UVA was built by enslaved people. What about W&M (possibly) and VT (maybe too new?)


Harvard sits atop stolen land.


That case could be made for every college in the U.S. Got to move on.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 13:55     Subject: What is so special about UVA, W&M, VT!?!??
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:W&M is older than several Ivys - founded in 1693, I think.

UVa says founded 1819, but I think classes did not start that year.

VT is much newer, created explicitly to be the land-grant university.


UVA was built by enslaved people. What about W&M (possibly) and VT (maybe too new?)


Harvard sits atop stolen land.