Anonymous wrote:My kid is a Third Year at UVA and having the time of her life. She has a great social life, loves telling is about what she is learning, and is challenged academically. That is all that matters to us. Oh, and the in-state tuition is the cherry on the top! Also, cannot complain about the distance from NOVA. Up or down a few spots in the rankings? No biggie!

Oh- so she’s a junior.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a Third Year at UVA and having the time of her life. She has a great social life, loves telling is about what she is learning, and is challenged academically. That is all that matters to us. Oh, and the in-state tuition is the cherry on the top! Also, cannot complain about the distance from NOVA. Up or down a few spots in the rankings? No biggie!

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Our son is a first year at UVA and the adjustment has been beyond all of our greatest hopes. He is so happy! I credit that to the school, the culture, the place and the students there. There is an undeniable spirit - smart kids who want to have fun too - there that seems to captivate kids. The fact that he is having this experience at half the cost is a bonus. Home now yet eager to get back.

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Anonymous wrote:The win over FSU brought them back in, at least temporarily.

What a game!

My daughter is there and said it was amazing. To all the posters griping about rankings, it doesn't matter. The kids I know at UVA, including my own, are thriving academically, socially, and heck now they even have a fun football team to cheer for. They're gonna be just fine. Go complain on another thread....no one cares.

+1 seriously!

Anonymous wrote:I’m filing this thread away as another exhibit on DCUM parent absurdity. Why does it matter how many Nobel prizes a school gets? It’s not like your kids are going to get one.

+1 Crazy town posters!

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a Third Year at UVA and having the time of her life. She has a great social life, loves telling is about what she is learning, and is challenged academically. That is all that matters to us. Oh, and the in-state tuition is the cherry on the top! Also, cannot complain about the distance from NOVA. Up or down a few spots in the rankings? No biggie!

You sound very normal. Haku for your daughter! Many DCUM posters are weirdly obsessed with college rankings and wealth.

Happy for your daughter!

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a Third Year at UVA and having the time of her life. She has a great social life, loves telling is about what she is learning, and is challenged academically. That is all that matters to us. Oh, and the in-state tuition is the cherry on the top! Also, cannot complain about the distance from NOVA. Up or down a few spots in the rankings? No biggie!

You sound very normal. Haku for your daughter! Many DCUM posters are weirdly obsessed with college rankings and wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m filing this thread away as another exhibit on DCUM parent absurdity. Why does it matter how many Nobel prizes a school gets? It’s not like your kids are going to get one.

It matters because it shows the quality of the professors, cohort, and research being done. UVA was once a great school, now it is an average public school.

What an absurd statement. /\/\

UVA functions as designed a place where VA residents can send their kids to get a decent education at a reasonable price.

How/if it will continue to be able to perform that function depends on its ability to vastly overcharge non VA residents now making up about a third of the overall student population.

Drastically lower that percentage and the value equation for VA residents will change.

My kid is a Third Year at UVA and having the time of her life. She has a great social life, loves telling is about what she is learning, and is challenged academically. That is all that matters to us. Oh, and the in-state tuition is the cherry on the top! Also, cannot complain about the distance from NOVA. Up or down a few spots in the rankings? No biggie!

With all the political stuff happening I’m not shocked. Everyone knows UVA is a good school. It doesn’t matter.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has always been overrated.

and yet has produced 57 Rhodes Scholars, more than any other U.S. Public University. Only West Point has more.

……and still ZERO Nobel prize winners. That’s embarrassing. UC schools had 4 this year alone!

UVA alumni who have won: Woodrow Wilson, William Faulkner, Snowalter Hench, Clinton Davidson.
UVA facuktywho have won: Fered Murad, Alfred Gilman
UVA Research affiliates who have won: Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Yukon

Wilson and Faulkner never graduated from UVA. Neither did Hench or Davidson. They weren’t “produced” by UVA. Rhodes scholars are graduates. Apples to apples.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m filing this thread away as another exhibit on DCUM parent absurdity. Why does it matter how many Nobel prizes a school gets? It’s not like your kids are going to get one.

It matters because it shows the quality of the professors, cohort, and research being done. UVA was once a great school, now it is an average public school.

I swear you must be a nut or still salty your kid was rejected or perhaps both.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m filing this thread away as another exhibit on DCUM parent absurdity. Why does it matter how many Nobel prizes a school gets? It’s not like your kids are going to get one.

It matters because it shows the quality of the professors, cohort, and research being done. UVA was once a great school, now it is an average public school.

Please just keep making my point for me. Nobody cares about that but the crazies on this board.

Anonymous wrote:I’m filing this thread away as another exhibit on DCUM parent absurdity. Why does it matter how many Nobel prizes a school gets? It’s not like your kids are going to get one.

It matters because it shows the quality of the professors, cohort, and research being done. UVA was once a great school, now it is an average public school.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA has always been overrated.

and yet has produced 57 Rhodes Scholars, more than any other U.S. Public University. Only West Point has more.

……and still ZERO Nobel prize winners. That’s embarrassing. UC schools had 4 this year alone!

UVA alumni who have won: Woodrow Wilson, William Faulkner, Snowalter Hench, Clinton Davidson.
UVA facuktywho have won: Fered Murad, Alfred Gilman
UVA Research affiliates who have won: Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Yukon