Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 19:25     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You aren’t good enough for Richmond. You wouldn’t get in. Look elsewhere. We don’t want your kind.


There's that arrogance someone mentioned. Big turnoff.


Yep
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 19:25     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Naming older alumni of school is cringe though, can you imagine an Ivy doing that? I honestly think that’s why Richmond gets heat. No other off the top of my head in that school range tries to pretend they’re something they are not. I don’t even mind the school, think the campus is pretty, but you’re not elite so don’t try to pretend to be.


No the true elites (HYPSM) don't do this, they don't have to. But UR isn't alone in doing it either. Some top schools do it too. Georgetown listed famous alums in its info session. I specifically remember this because one of them was Bradley Cooper. (And yes that is the ONLY thing I recall from that info session.)


So weird. Who cares?
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 18:43     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:Naming older alumni of school is cringe though, can you imagine an Ivy doing that? I honestly think that’s why Richmond gets heat. No other off the top of my head in that school range tries to pretend they’re something they are not. I don’t even mind the school, think the campus is pretty, but you’re not elite so don’t try to pretend to be.


No the true elites (HYPSM) don't do this, they don't have to. But UR isn't alone in doing it either. Some top schools do it too. Georgetown listed famous alums in its info session. I specifically remember this because one of them was Bradley Cooper. (And yes that is the ONLY thing I recall from that info session.)
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 18:40     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:You aren’t good enough for Richmond. You wouldn’t get in. Look elsewhere. We don’t want your kind.


There's that arrogance someone mentioned. Big turnoff.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 18:38     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Naming older alumni of school is cringe though, can you imagine an Ivy doing that? I honestly think that’s why Richmond gets heat. No other off the top of my head in that school range tries to pretend they’re something they are not. I don’t even mind the school, think the campus is pretty, but you’re not elite so don’t try to pretend to be.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 18:31     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
So did Lil Dicky
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 18:30     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Kash Patel went there. That’s a legit flex.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 18:25     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Hard to see why anyone would flex with Richmond, but to each their own.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 18:08     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:You aren’t good enough for Richmond. You wouldn’t get in. Look elsewhere. We don’t want your kind.


Wow.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 18:01     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:You aren’t good enough for Richmond. You wouldn’t get in. Look elsewhere. We don’t want your kind.


I guess we can see why people feel compelled to share their experiences, yikes!
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 17:59     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
You aren’t good enough for Richmond. You wouldn’t get in. Look elsewhere. We don’t want your kind.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 17:58     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread has as many posts as the video with the asu sorority girls! Impressive.


So weird. No one really cares about Richmond.


Apparently, some do - to bash it unnecessarily. The truth is that they wouldn’t meet the admissions threshold compared to Elon, Sewanee, etc.



Stay classy.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 17:54     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread has as many posts as the video with the asu sorority girls! Impressive.


So weird. No one really cares about Richmond.


Apparently, some do - to bash it unnecessarily. The truth is that they wouldn’t meet the admissions threshold compared to Elon, Sewanee, etc.



Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 17:53     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, Richmond can sometimes come across as thinking it’s Harvard. You can buy the hype. Or you can step back and say, wait a minute, you aren’t Harvard. You’re Richmond. Many many schools that are as good as Richmond. Not saying it’s nice. But also don’t understand thr Harvard like arrogance.


Think you nailed it.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 17:52     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:Is there an Elon admissions rep on this thread? Seems very odd that so many Elon “parents” are jumping in to assert superiority over this one SLAC in particular. Like maybe there is some consultant data out there that shows that Elon can pick up scalps in the cross admit battle. Very interesting.


Um, yeah. The Elon admissions people are commenting on a Richmond DCUM thread. That sounds plausible.