Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 22:01     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:This entire thread is like a choreographed WWE wrestling match complete with heels and faces. I don’t think the NoVa people can have a rational conversation about this school.


It’s one or two high school kids. They seem to have a chip on their shoulder or an axe to grind.
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 20:33     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
I don’t know why people keep talking about this school. It’s an afterthought.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 15:10     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this forum hate most private schools because of the cost. There is also an infatuation with William and Mary because of the cost for VA residents.

It is only on this forum that people will say that the 22nd ranked liberal arts college is a lousy school.


Schools that expensive (not just UR) who don’t give much if any merit aid are full of rich kids and poor/URM kids. There aren’t really MC/UMC kids there. If you are a rich family I’m guessing that’s fine with you. It’s not what I want.


Don’t forget about UMC kids who happen to also be URM. The kids I know who attend Richmond and got merit aid were UMC Latinos.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 14:12     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:U of R is a wonderful school! We know many there. They are bright active down to earth students. Campus is beautiful and outcomes are comparable to WM, Wake, BC.


I asked this in another thread: how come I never met any graduate from U of R even though I lived in NoVA all my life? Is it that small of a population? I feel like it's a different circle than mine. Where do students come from? where do they go? what's the circle that brags that their DC is going to U of R?

It's a hard school to get into and I'm definitely missing something. The WASP people I know but still don't get but I meet them and talk to them just don't get them. You can tell - I'm a State school guy. Just trying to understand.


Most of their students are from the Northeast, so yes, it’s a different circle than yours. I used to live in Richmond and worked with a few alums and they were from PA or MA.

This. Less than 20% of UR students are from Virginia. VA has a lot of great public options, and if you’re going to pay for private anyway, a lot of Virginians (especially Nova students) want to go farther from home.


That resonates. My first kid wouldn't even look at it. We'll see what kid #2 thinks, but he's not too excited.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 14:10     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this forum hate most private schools because of the cost. There is also an infatuation with William and Mary because of the cost for VA residents.

It is only on this forum that people will say that the 22nd ranked liberal arts college is a lousy school.


Schools that expensive (not just UR) who don’t give much if any merit aid are full of rich kids and poor/URM kids. There aren’t really MC/UMC kids there. If you are a rich family I’m guessing that’s fine with you. It’s not what I want.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 14:10     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:I applied to 2 schools back in the day - UR and JMU. Both out of state.

Got into both, ended up choosing JMU and was SO glad I did.

In my 25 years since living in NoVA - never met a single UR grad. And in the past two years getting two of my kids through the application process to college, never heard a single peep about UR or received a single piece of literature or saw them on a single list. Both kids would have been more than qualified to attend if they wanted to.

They're like a ghost school that doesn't really exist unless you're rich and don't live any where around here.


I'm live in PA. My kids go to a public high school in a fairly affluent area. Oldest just graduated. Only one of his friends is attending an expensive private college. That is just the way things are now. If you can afford a private college most likely your kids are at a private high school. My sister lives in another state. She said every time she heard about a family mentioned sending their child to an expensive private school, she also heard that the grandparents were paying for it.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:43     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:I applied to 2 schools back in the day - UR and JMU. Both out of state.

Got into both, ended up choosing JMU and was SO glad I did.

In my 25 years since living in NoVA - never met a single UR grad. And in the past two years getting two of my kids through the application process to college, never heard a single peep about UR or received a single piece of literature or saw them on a single list. Both kids would have been more than qualified to attend if they wanted to.

They're like a ghost school that doesn't really exist unless you're rich and don't live any where around here.

You weren’t looking at very many lists if you never saw it.

From the Princeton Review alone:

Best Student Support and Counseling Services #1
Most Beautiful Campus #2
Best Campus Food #3
Best-Run Colleges #3
Best Athletic Facilities #8
Best Health Services #8
Top 20 Best Schools for Internships (Private Schools) #9
Best Career Services #12
Best Classroom Experience #13
Lots of Beer #13
Most Accessible Professors #15
Best College Dorms #22
Best Quality of Life #24
Happiest Students #25
Top 50 Green Colleges #36
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:39     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
I applied to 2 schools back in the day - UR and JMU. Both out of state.

Got into both, ended up choosing JMU and was SO glad I did.

In my 25 years since living in NoVA - never met a single UR grad. And in the past two years getting two of my kids through the application process to college, never heard a single peep about UR or received a single piece of literature or saw them on a single list. Both kids would have been more than qualified to attend if they wanted to.

They're like a ghost school that doesn't really exist unless you're rich and don't live any where around here.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:30     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:U of R is a wonderful school! We know many there. They are bright active down to earth students. Campus is beautiful and outcomes are comparable to WM, Wake, BC.


I asked this in another thread: how come I never met any graduate from U of R even though I lived in NoVA all my life? Is it that small of a population? I feel like it's a different circle than mine. Where do students come from? where do they go? what's the circle that brags that their DC is going to U of R?

It's a hard school to get into and I'm definitely missing something. The WASP people I know but still don't get but I meet them and talk to them just don't get them. You can tell - I'm a State school guy. Just trying to understand.


Most of their students are from the Northeast, so yes, it’s a different circle than yours. I used to live in Richmond and worked with a few alums and they were from PA or MA.

This. Less than 20% of UR students are from Virginia. VA has a lot of great public options, and if you’re going to pay for private anyway, a lot of Virginians (especially Nova students) want to go farther from home.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:25     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:U of R is a wonderful school! We know many there. They are bright active down to earth students. Campus is beautiful and outcomes are comparable to WM, Wake, BC.


I asked this in another thread: how come I never met any graduate from U of R even though I lived in NoVA all my life? Is it that small of a population? I feel like it's a different circle than mine. Where do students come from? where do they go? what's the circle that brags that their DC is going to U of R?

It's a hard school to get into and I'm definitely missing something. The WASP people I know but still don't get but I meet them and talk to them just don't get them. You can tell - I'm a State school guy. Just trying to understand.


Most of their students are from the Northeast, so yes, it’s a different circle than yours. I used to live in Richmond and worked with a few alums and they were from PA or MA.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:16     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Race relations at UR are pretty terrible. Princeton Review always rated it right at the top for least interracial interaction. Not a good look for a college located right smack dab in the capital of the confederacy.


It's white and preppy. Those types don't like minorities.


You have that backwards. I think minorities just don't like a school like that and they're not applying. You can't admit who doesn't even apply.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 13:13     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Went on a tour with my kid about a month ago, it was a terrible tour. No mention of clubs, if they had sports, etc. Very disappointing, its so expensive and tough to get into. Something was off


You went on a tour but you didn’t go into the Robbins Center or new Student Rec facility adjacent to it? By the football field? No mention of they had sports. Stop lying.


New poster
We went on a tour around the same time, and it was shortened due to the extremely hot weather. I’m not sure if it is fair to judge the school based on the limited tour. Unlike pp, my teen still really enjoyed the tour and liked the school.


We went on a tour last August, and it literally was 100 degrees and was a shortened tour. But we absolutely went into that new huge student rec center next to the basketball arena (they have a smoothie place, you could watch squash matches from the lobby and they were giving out free massages in those leaning forward chairs to students). So someone claiming that a tour, even a shortened tour, doesn't discuss sports is absolutely lying.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 12:38     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:The posters on this forum hate most private schools because of the cost. There is also an infatuation with William and Mary because of the cost for VA residents.

It is only on this forum that people will say that the 22nd ranked liberal arts college is a lousy school.

+1
Bitter and ignorant DCUM parents. Just a bunch of jealous trolls.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 12:35     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
The posters on this forum hate most private schools because of the cost. There is also an infatuation with William and Mary because of the cost for VA residents.

It is only on this forum that people will say that the 22nd ranked liberal arts college is a lousy school.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 12:11     Subject: Thoughts on U Richmond
Anonymous wrote:I’m a little surprised they don’t give better merit. They have a fairly substantial endowment.


I suspect that UR uses its merit aid to increase URM on campus (other small schools in the South do this as well). Everyone we know who has gotten merit from UR is an URM.