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Anonymous wrote:UVA is prestigious and highly selective and is a top 25 national university. It is on par with the nation’s top private schools.

Good but no.

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you are wrong ir old. UVA is now top 25 of all universities and colleges (5,000 of them in the US); no 4 for best public university, and no 8 in the producer of Rhodes Scholars, eclipsed only by the elite privates like HYP.

more like tied with U. Mich for #3. It was #2 for years and years before USNWR started taking Pell Grant into account, which really has nothing to do with the quality of education.

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Anyone else think it's strange that she is putting this info out on TikTok? Do college admissions usually have TikTok accounts?

She goes live on Instagram every week as well. Really helpful.

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Anyone else think it's strange that she is putting this info out on TikTok? Do college admissions usually have TikTok accounts?

They do now. They’re going to where their audience is.

Wait. Anyone else think it's strange that she is putting this info out on TikTok? Do college admissions usually have TikTok accounts?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is prestigious and highly selective and is a top 25 national university. It is on par with the nation’s top private schools.

Good but no.

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you are wrong ir old. UVA is now top 25 of all universities and colleges (5,000 of them in the US); no 4 for best public university, and no 8 in the producer of Rhodes Scholars, eclipsed only by the elite privates like HYP.

The PP said it is on par with nation's top privates, and those are schools like HYP. If you look at almost any metric, including the one you cited - producer of Rhodes Scholars - an UVA does not rate with those schools. Harvard has 375 Rhodes Scholarships winners to 55 for UVA and UVA has 2.7X as many undergraduate students as Harvard, meaning over time any given Harvard undergraduate has been 18X as likely to win a Rhodes as a UVA undergraduate. If you look at rankings on quality of research, income of graduates, likelihood of graduates to be admitted to top graduate programs like Yale Law, etc. you will see the same thing. So no, not on par with nation's top privates.

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Anonymous wrote:Google UVA selectivity USNWR. it’s the percentage of applicants who get an offer. I believe it is now 23 percent. USNWR then takes that percentage and assign a category to it. For UVA that is “most selective”.

USNWR doesn't include acceptance rate any more.

False. Please google USNWR UVA Selectivity and tell me what you see as the first entry. You see USNWR 2021 UVA acceptance at 23%, in the top 25 of all institutions in the US “which ranks it as being most selective”.

Google USNWR rating criteria and you will not find it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Google UVA selectivity USNWR. it’s the percentage of applicants who get an offer. I believe it is now 23 percent. USNWR then takes that percentage and assign a category to it. For UVA that is “most selective”.

USNWR doesn't include acceptance rate any more.

False. Please google USNWR UVA Selectivity and tell me what you see as the first entry. You see USNWR 2021 UVA acceptance at 23%, in the top 25 of all institutions in the US “which ranks it as being most selective”.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is prestigious and highly selective and is a top 25 national university. It is on par with the nation’s top private schools.

Good but no.

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you are wrong ir old. UVA is now top 25 of all universities and colleges (5,000 of them in the US); no 4 for best public university, and no 8 in the producer of Rhodes Scholars, eclipsed only by the elite privates like HYP.

Anonymous wrote:UVA is prestigious and highly selective and is a top 25 national university. It is on par with the nation’s top private schools.

Good but no.

UVA is prestigious and highly selective and is a top 25 national university. It is on par with the nation’s top private schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Google UVA selectivity USNWR. it’s the percentage of applicants who get an offer. I believe it is now 23 percent. USNWR then takes that percentage and assign a category to it. For UVA that is “most selective”.

USNWR doesn't include acceptance rate any more.

But the other ranking services do AND readings on sites like this one constantly talk about “Oh X college is only 12 percent acceptance so your DC should do X, Y and Z and aim for a less prestigious school.

Acceptance rate can be a misleading indicator of selectivity because schools have used tactics to drive up the number of applicants, even if clearly unqualified, to drive down acceptance rates.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Google UVA selectivity USNWR. it’s the percentage of applicants who get an offer. I believe it is now 23 percent. USNWR then takes that percentage and assign a category to it. For UVA that is “most selective”.

USNWR doesn't include acceptance rate any more.

But the other ranking services do AND readings on sites like this one constantly talk about “Oh X college is only 12 percent acceptance so your DC should do X, Y and Z and aim for a less prestigious school.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny flagship not sure why VA residents tolerate that.

I like our system. Instead of one enormous, mega university, we have a bunch of large ones.

I guess we could pull a North Carolina and call them all UVA with a city after them to make people realize that we have a lot of state universities here?

I’m sure GMU would leap at the chance to be called UVA-Fairfax.

GMU started out as a satellite school of UVA! It would be returning to its roots!

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So did Mary Washington (originally was UVA's women's college).

Most have roots. GMU was a UVA extension in Fairfax, Mary Washington was UVA's women's college, and UVA Wise, formerly Clinch Valley College of UVA is still associated. CNU was an extension of William and Mary as was ODU and the non-medical part of VCU. Radford was a women's college of VT for a while. MCV was the medical college of Hampden Sydney.

Anonymous wrote:Google UVA selectivity USNWR. it’s the percentage of applicants who get an offer. I believe it is now 23 percent. USNWR then takes that percentage and assign a category to it. For UVA that is “most selective”.

USNWR doesn't include acceptance rate any more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny flagship not sure why VA residents tolerate that.

I like our system. Instead of one enormous, mega university, we have a bunch of large ones.

I guess we could pull a North Carolina and call them all UVA with a city after them to make people realize that we have a lot of state universities here?

I’m sure GMU would leap at the chance to be called UVA-Fairfax.

GMU started out as a satellite school of UVA! It would be returning to its roots!

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So did Mary Washington (originally was UVA's women's college).