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Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

You seem to have spent a lot of time thinking about UVA.

Uh....yeah. I had relatives who lived in Charlottesville growing up....used to visit every summer as a kid. Several of them attended UVA. Also did some graduate work at The University after I graduated from JMU. So yeah.... I've spent a lifetime "thinking about it".....because I was connected to it in several significant ways. Thanks for your inquiring comment. And to the OP who commented about Easters being a "ticking time bomb": You're probably right. It got too big and too popular by the late 80's. All good things must come to an end.....but I was just glad to have experienced it. I also used to enjoy the antics of the pep band at football game halftimes.....and that ended as well.

I was at a football game where the pep band made fun of West Virginia. They went to far by some margin. I think that might have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

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Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

You seem to have spent a lot of time thinking about UVA.

Uh....yeah. I had relatives who lived in Charlottesville growing up....used to visit every summer as a kid. Several of them attended UVA. Also did some graduate work at The University after I graduated from JMU. So yeah.... I've spent a lifetime "thinking about it".....because I was connected to it in several significant ways. Thanks for your inquiring comment. And to the OP who commented about Easters being a "ticking time bomb": You're probably right. It got too big and too popular by the late 80's. All good things must come to an end.....but I was just glad to have experienced it. I also used to enjoy the antics of the pep band at football game halftimes.....and that ended as well.

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Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

You seem to have spent a lot of time thinking about UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Top 5 public college, top 30 overall. Affordable in-state. Pretty campus in a nice climate. Really is a terrific combo if the circumstances are right.

Try top 3 public and overall top 25

Anonymous wrote:Top 5 public college, top 30 overall. Affordable in-state. Pretty campus in a nice climate. Really is a terrific combo if the circumstances are right.

Anonymous wrote:lets be honest here. half the class at TJ will go there. why. Asians like the cheaper in-state tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

Anonymous wrote:My DD was really turned off by the attitude presented at the UVA tour. Elitism without the chomps to back it up. She felt that they were trying to present everyone is an extrovert future leader. My DD wants to save the world through science, not policy.

She was accepted to UVA, Tech, W & M (and every other school she applied to except Cornell). She is going to Tech.

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Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

JMU grad here.....class of 1978. I had many high school friends who attended UVA, W&M, VaTech, U of Richmond, Hampden-Sydney, VCU, ODU, Redford,...etc. I visited many of them at all of these respective campuses....."back in the day." UVA was once featured in Playboy magazine as being the top party school in the country. All of you DCUMERS old enough to remember know what I am talking about. The University had four major social weekends
every academic year, starting off with "Openings" (which was the first home football game,..followed by Homecoming,..then "Mid-Winters" in early January, ...culminating in the epic "Easters" weekend in mid-April. Every fraternity on Rugby road through open their doors to all comers for each one. On Easters, every frat house had a live band, and on Sunday, they put on a live free concert in Madison Bowl,(a football-stadium sized grassy area) with major acts playing from noon til dark. I remember seeing the Allman Brothers, Junior Walker and the Allstars.....and other bands I was too drunk to recall. It was a collegiate baccanal to end all baccanals. The Wahoos truly knew how to party hard, but.... it was the last blowout before everybody settled in to study for finals. Call me an old fogey, but those days were truly the best....and Easters was truly "the BEST party in the country!!!"

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Anonymous wrote:Great school, good price. Everyone wants in (except perhaps for some self selected introverted types who favor William and Mary). Lots of UVA grads from the 1980s and 1990s will inevitably be facing serious disappointment as their legacy kids are rejected and the dreams of adding car decals and bragging to the McNeighbors give way to self soothing conversations about how up and coming Christopher Newport is.

Yet somehow William and Mary was rated tops for happiest students in Princeton Review.

Anonymous wrote:If you were a Harvard grad and someone commented that Harvard isn't prestigious, you likely wouldn't feel compelled to respond. It would be like water off a duck's back. UVA supporters feel compelled to respond, and it usually results in a fight.

Anonymous wrote:Great school, good price. Everyone wants in (except perhaps for some self selected introverted types who favor William and Mary). Lots of UVA grads from the 1980s and 1990s will inevitably be facing serious disappointment as their legacy kids are rejected and the dreams of adding car decals and bragging to the McNeighbors give way to self soothing conversations about how up and coming Christopher Newport is.

Anonymous wrote:Great school, good price. Everyone wants in (except perhaps for some self selected introverted types who favor William and Mary). Lots of UVA grads from the 1980s and 1990s will inevitably be facing serious disappointment as their legacy kids are rejected and the dreams of adding car decals and bragging to the McNeighbors give way to self soothing conversations about how up and coming Christopher Newport is.