Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 13:51     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
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Anonymous wrote:Rejected after being deferred EA. Out of State, 1550 SAT, 4.5 GPA, national and international writing awards, extremely strong everything. I've been accepted to UNC Honors, Miami U (full ride), Rutgers (almost full ride), USC Honors College (full ride), McGill (partial scholarship), U of Toronto (partial scholarship) and received a likely letter from Duke. There's really no telling with these things. I did write my common app essay about leading a protest...something tells me UVA is sick of political agitators! Not sad about UVA per say, but disappointed that I was simply rejected! I'm now 6 for 7, bummer.


This is part of the problem, why in the world do kids apply to 7 schools? No wonder people get locked out if so many kids are over applying all over the place.


??

7 really isn’t that many.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 13:36     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
Anonymous wrote:Rejected after being deferred EA. Out of State, 1550 SAT, 4.5 GPA, national and international writing awards, extremely strong everything. I've been accepted to UNC Honors, Miami U (full ride), Rutgers (almost full ride), USC Honors College (full ride), McGill (partial scholarship), U of Toronto (partial scholarship) and received a likely letter from Duke. There's really no telling with these things. I did write my common app essay about leading a protest...something tells me UVA is sick of political agitators! Not sad about UVA per say, but disappointed that I was simply rejected! I'm now 6 for 7, bummer.


This is part of the problem, why in the world do kids apply to 7 schools? No wonder people get locked out if so many kids are over applying all over the place.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 10:06     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
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Anonymous wrote:Name the 5.

Woodrow Wilson graduated over 100 years ago. The last century has been dissapointing.


No he didn't. WW graduated from Princeton undergrad after starting at Davidson. He spent 1 year at UVA law before leaving.


Good grief! It gets worse.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 09:44     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
Anonymous wrote:Name the 5.

Woodrow Wilson graduated over 100 years ago. The last century has been dissapointing.


No he didn't. WW graduated from Princeton undergrad after starting at Davidson. He spent 1 year at UVA law before leaving.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 09:10     Subject: Re:UVA out tomorrow
Anonymous wrote:Wow, the UVA hate has really taken off lately. Maybe the school should open a brand new medium sized four year college and campus in northern Virginia for undergrads and build a town around it. It would quickly become Virginia’s version of UCLA to the original’s Cal. (William and Mary is sui genesis—it’s its own thing.)


^ generis
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 09:09     Subject: Re:UVA out tomorrow
Wow, the UVA hate has really taken off lately. Maybe the school should open a brand new medium sized four year college and campus in northern Virginia for undergrads and build a town around it. It would quickly become Virginia’s version of UCLA to the original’s Cal. (William and Mary is sui genesis—it’s its own thing.)
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 08:47     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
Anonymous wrote:It's a safe school for safe people. Not great for risk takers, dreamers, creators, inventors, entrepreneurs or people with sex appeal.


Nailed it!
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 08:45     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
On the question of VT versus UVA for engineering? Some students don’t like being out in Blacksburg with an all-tech crowd (and I don’t blame them).
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 08:41     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
pP you have no idea what you are talking about. And I’m not even a big fan of UVA.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 08:40     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
It's a safe school for safe people. Not great for risk takers, dreamers, creators, inventors, entrepreneurs or people with sex appeal.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 08:19     Subject: Re:UVA out tomorrow
Didn’t UVA just set some historical record in the college basketball tournament?
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 08:09     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
Anonymous wrote:Nobel Prize winners totally teach undergrads, right?

I'm more interested in undergraduate teaching than how many brilliant, inaccessible people a school has on faculty.


I agree 1000%, which is why U.Va's ranking as a university (incl. law school, business school, endowment) doesn't matter that much --- how good is the undergraduate teaching. There it doesn't rank highly at all compared to the SLACs.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2018 08:04     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
Nobel Prize winners totally teach undergrads, right?

I'm more interested in undergraduate teaching than how many brilliant, inaccessible people a school has on faculty.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2018 21:45     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
Name the 5.

Woodrow Wilson graduated over 100 years ago. The last century has been dissapointing.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2018 20:56     Subject: UVA out tomorrow
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Anonymous wrote:Talent in what?
UVA specializes in easy majors. That's why it is poorly regarded worldwide.



YOu again? What is your problem? My DC at UVA is in aerospace engineering. You try to take his classes.


Why didn't he go to tech for the higher ranked program?


One of my HS friends went to UVA for aerospace engineering. He always joked that VT trains you to be an engineer, UVA trains you to be an engineering leader. I always scoffed, but he's now VP of engineering at a pretty big company. I'd bet if you looked at the average stats of the VT engineering majors they're probably still lower than the UVA engineering majors even though tech is more highly "ranked", so the peer group at UVA is probably brighter on average.

Just to check, I looked up some SAT scores.

The average SAT scores for VT engineering students in 2017 was 1340 (significantly higher than general population) (https://irweb.ir.vt.edu/webtest/FreshmenSummary.aspx)

The average SAT scores for ALL UVA students is over 1400. I'm sure it's higher for engineering.

So, someone might want to go to UVA for engineering instead of VT to be around a brighter peer group.


Actually UVA has zero Nobel laureates and an suprisingly low number of pulitzers or Emmys and no academy award alumni. Along with no highly impactful alumni for the last 100 years. They may be bright going in but seem to lose focus or are inherently risk averse.


This is not true. Woodrow Wilson is a Nobel laureate. I guess they didn’t teach you very good research skills at UM.


And an alumnus is nominated this year for Loving Vincent.


5 academy awards have been won by uva alumni.


And don’t forget Katie Couric!