It's a very well regarded school.

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Anonymous wrote:No, not nationally. It’s only popular in this area. None of my CA friends have even heard of it.

That says more about your friends than it does about UVA. It's the flagship of one of our 50 states. It's like saying you haven't heard of the University of Texas, or Michigan, or New Hampshire. You may not regard it highly or know much about it, but to not have heard of it means you must walk around with your head in a bag.

NP. We lived in northern CA for 5 years and my dh is a UVA alum. People didn’t regard UVA as any different than any other big state U. It’s not that it’s unheard of, it’s just that it isn’t considered among the elites.

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UVA is an elite public university. Whether some Californians are aware of that or choose to acknowledge it speaks only to their own mindset. It’s like asking some people on the East Coast to weigh in on Pomona or Claremont McKenna.

I can do that. They're both harder to get into than UVA and more prestigious in academic circles.

Yes, and some Californians know of UVA's prestige. Your comment proves nothing, other than that you are an ass.

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Anonymous wrote:I remember a few years ago reading that Amy Chua- The original Tiger Mom's daughter was applying to UVA along with only two others - Harvard and Yale. Obviously it was her safety, but I think that says something.

Which kid? As I recall one DD was a stand-out and the other one was more, let's say, not such of a stand-out.

The older one, forgot her name but I know she went to Harvard.

Anonymous wrote:If it wasn't known outside Virginia, how are these out of state numbers possible?

Total Applications
Total applications: 37,222 (36,779 last year)
Total number of VA apps: 11,338
Total number of OOS apps: 25,884
We use completed applications in our statistics.

Total Offers of Admission
Overall offers: 9,849
Total VA offers: 4,303 (38% offer rate)
Total OOS offers: 5,546 (21.4% offer rate)

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Anonymous wrote:No, not nationally. It’s only popular in this area. None of my CA friends have even heard of it.

That says more about your friends than it does about UVA. It's the flagship of one of our 50 states. It's like saying you haven't heard of the University of Texas, or Michigan, or New Hampshire. You may not regard it highly or know much about it, but to not have heard of it means you must walk around with your head in a bag.

NP. We lived in northern CA for 5 years and my dh is a UVA alum. People didn’t regard UVA as any different than any other big state U. It’s not that it’s unheard of, it’s just that it isn’t considered among the elites.

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UVA is an elite public university. Whether some Californians are aware of that or choose to acknowledge it speaks only to their own mindset. It’s like asking some people on the East Coast to weigh in on Pomona or Claremont McKenna.

I can do that. They're both harder to get into than UVA and more prestigious in academic circles.

Anonymous wrote:I remember a few years ago reading that Amy Chua- The original Tiger Mom's daughter was applying to UVA along with only two others - Harvard and Yale. Obviously it was her safety, but I think that says something.

Which kid? As I recall one DD was a stand-out and the other one was more, let's say, not such of a stand-out.

I remember a few years ago reading that Amy Chua- The original Tiger Mom's daughter was applying to UVA along with only two others - Harvard and Yale. Obviously it was her safety, but I think that says something.

Anonymous wrote:It’s a solid school but very southern, which is unattractive for many from other parts of the country.

Well considering that the vast majority of students choose to go south for college, I would say it's southern location would be a plus.

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Anonymous wrote:No, not nationally. It’s only popular in this area. None of my CA friends have even heard of it.

That says more about your friends than it does about UVA. It's the flagship of one of our 50 states. It's like saying you haven't heard of the University of Texas, or Michigan, or New Hampshire. You may not regard it highly or know much about it, but to not have heard of it means you must walk around with your head in a bag.

NP. We lived in northern CA for 5 years and my dh is a UVA alum. People didn’t regard UVA as any different than any other big state U. It’s not that it’s unheard of, it’s just that it isn’t considered among the elites.

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UVA is an elite public university. Whether some Californians are aware of that or choose to acknowledge it speaks only to their own mindset. It’s like asking some people on the East Coast to weigh in on Pomona or Claremont McKenna.

Um, no. It's a good state school. But no one outside of this area considers it prestigious.

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Anonymous wrote:No, not nationally. It’s only popular in this area. None of my CA friends have even heard of it.

That says more about Californians than anything.

Californians can be quite provincial about colleges. For a lot of people the UCs are the center of the universe and anything that’s not a UC or an Ivy is just meh. Which of course isn’t true but explains the PP’s post.

I think this is true for just about everyone in any part of the country. Until I started reading this board and College Confidential, I didn't even know what UC's were, much less which ones were good or not. The truth is there are only a very small number of schools that would get a wow from pretty much anyone throughout the country. There are many other highly selective colleges that get a wow regionally or nationally among people in the know, but not among the masses on a national scale.

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get into? Yes, but I wouldn’t call it prestigious. It’s just a well regarded big state school like Michigan or UCLA.

I think most would consider those schools to be prestigious as well.

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Anonymous wrote:No, not nationally. It’s only popular in this area. None of my CA friends have even heard of it.

That says more about your friends than it does about UVA. It's the flagship of one of our 50 states. It's like saying you haven't heard of the University of Texas, or Michigan, or New Hampshire. You may not regard it highly or know much about it, but to not have heard of it means you must walk around with your head in a bag.

NP. We lived in northern CA for 5 years and my dh is a UVA alum. People didn’t regard UVA as any different than any other big state U. It’s not that it’s unheard of, it’s just that it isn’t considered among the elites.

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Uva’s law and business schools are highly ranked nationwide. Your California friends must not be very educated.

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Anonymous wrote:No, not nationally. It’s only popular in this area. None of my CA friends have even heard of it.

That says more about Californians than anything.

Californians can be quite provincial about colleges. For a lot of people the UCs are the center of the universe and anything that’s not a UC or an Ivy is just meh. Which of course isn’t true but explains the PP’s post.

Uh, East Coast people are even more provincial about colleges! If you didn't go to college on the East Coast, then you didn't go to a real college. It's like the people who, when I say I'm from the West Coast, will tell me they were just "out west" and how much they enjoyed their visit to Kansas City.

--West Coast native