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Anonymous wrote:I think there are many people that would never consider a public university prestigious in any context.

And those people are elitist assholes!

And stupid as well, if you can do a flagship state school at $23K (all in) but privates with the same elite class are at $82K per year, that is one hell of a delta you have to cover in after tax dollars. Fortunately both of our kids got into the state flagship so we were able to bank the delta to allocate towards graduate school.

Not everybody is concerned with the cost and not everybody wants their child to attend a college where 70% of students come from a single state.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there are many people that would never consider a public university prestigious in any context.

And those people are elitist assholes!

And stupid as well, if you can do a flagship state school at $23K (all in) but privates with the same elite class are at $82K per year, that is one hell of a delta you have to cover in after tax dollars. Fortunately both of our kids got into the state flagship so we were able to bank the delta to allocate towards graduate school.

Not everybody is concerned with the cost and [b]not everybody wants their child to attend a college where 70% of students come from a single state.

I don’t get this. Kids tend to hang out with similar SES anyway- likes attract likes. If you’re spending an extra $50K year just so your kid can hang out with kids from Short Hills and Winnetka and Grosse Pointe instead of Arlington and McLean...that’s just plain silly[/b].

+1 and the 67% of Virginians that do make up the class include Questbridge, Low-income students, first generation studies, 1/3 URMS, very poor students, AA, hispanic and Asian and some (shock!) are even boarding school students whose parents live in VA.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there are many people that would never consider a public university prestigious in any context.

And those people are elitist assholes!

And stupid as well, if you can do a flagship state school at $23K (all in) but privates with the same elite class are at $82K per year, that is one hell of a delta you have to cover in after tax dollars. Fortunately both of our kids got into the state flagship so we were able to bank the delta to allocate towards graduate school.

You could save more on community college. More delta to allocate.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there are many people that would never consider a public university prestigious in any context.

And those people are elitist assholes!

And stupid as well, if you can do a flagship state school at $23K (all in) but privates with the same elite class are at $82K per year, that is one hell of a delta you have to cover in after tax dollars. Fortunately both of our kids got into the state flagship so we were able to bank the delta to allocate towards graduate school.

Not everybody is concerned with the cost and not everybody wants their child to attend a college where 70% of students come from a single state.

I don’t get this. Kids tend to hang out with similar SES anyway- likes attract likes. If you’re spending an extra $50K year just so your kid can hang out with kids from Short Hills and Winnetka and Grosse Pointe instead of Arlington and McLean...that’s just plain silly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there are many people that would never consider a public university prestigious in any context.

And those people are elitist assholes!

And stupid as well, if you can do a flagship state school at $23K (all in) but privates with the same elite class are at $82K per year, that is one hell of a delta you have to cover in after tax dollars. Fortunately both of our kids got into the state flagship so we were able to bank the delta to allocate towards graduate school.

Not everybody is concerned with the cost and not everybody wants their child to attend a college where 70% of students come from a single state.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there are many people that would never consider a public university prestigious in any context.

And those people are elitist assholes!

And stupid as well, if you can do a flagship state school at $23K (all in) but privates with the same elite class are at $82K per year, that is one hell of a delta you have to cover in after tax dollars. Fortunately both of our kids got into the state flagship so we were able to bank the delta to allocate towards graduate school.

Anonymous wrote:I think there are many people that would never consider a public university prestigious in any context.

And those people are elitist assholes!

Anonymous wrote:If you're rich, it signals your kid is handsome, mentally competent and "clubbable" (social, gregarious).

Everyone else, nobody cares. Only hoi polloi treat it like it's winning the lottery. Just a solid public university.

Interesting word (clubbable). I had an instant image of a rich person hitting their kid. . .

I walked around UVA not too long ago and can't say I saw an above average number of "handsome" students. Same with the USC (Southern Cal). (USC appeared to have a large number of international students.) Perhaps the schools that are trying hard to be more selective are trending toward a similar norm.

If you're rich, it signals your kid is handsome, mentally competent and "clubbable" (social, gregarious).

Everyone else, nobody cares. Only hoi polloi treat it like it's winning the lottery. Just a solid public university.

I think there are many people that would never consider a public university prestigious in any context.

If this thread had been titled "Is Harvard a prestigious university?" the answers would have been something along the lines of "Obviously" because it fits the definition for most people. If the title had been "Is Southwest Eastern _______ Tech prestigious?", most would probably say no, although some may still say yes.

You don't have to go to far down the list of universities below Harvard for significant disagreements to arise. Prestige is open to interpretation and is relative. 27 pages of debate would indicate UVA falls into that category. This is not to say it isn't objectively a very good school (e.g. top x% of all national universities). It just says that there isn't going to be clearer agreement on an ambiguous criteria like prestige.

Anonymous wrote:Extremely low ranked in every world university ranking. So no.

What do you *think* "world university rankings" are based on?

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Anonymous wrote:Among Top 25 schools, UVA is one of the few that still fosters "higher social IQs." I'd include Vanderbilt and USC too, but all of those schools seem to be trending in the same direction as Duke and UCLA have - away from a mix of academic and social life to shear academics.

Is there a scientific basis for this, or are you just counting off numbers of rich white kids?

You seem unaware that both USC and UCLA are majority non-white. Scientific basis, eh?

Anonymous wrote:UVA is a Top 25 national university and the top rated public university outside of California. Only UCLA and Cal rank higher, barely. Of course, UVA is prestigious. There are more prestigious colleges, but not many.

+1. UVA is consistently ranked 1, 2, or 3 for top public university in the united states. Sometimes Berkeley is ahead and UVA ties with UCLA. But always in the top three with U. of Michigan behind. https://news.virginia.edu/content/us-news-lists-uva-among-top-three-public-universities-27th-straight-year

Anonymous wrote:Among Top 25 schools, UVA is one of the few that still fosters "higher social IQs." I'd include Vanderbilt and USC too, but all of those schools seem to be trending in the same direction as Duke and UCLA have - away from a mix of academic and social life to shear academics.

Is there a scientific basis for this, or are you just counting off numbers of rich white kids?