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Anonymous wrote:I'm one of the commenters above, and although I don't condone the all-out baseless bashing of any one school, I can assure you I'm not masquerading as multiple people in this thread, so there are at least a few people who share my opinion.

Take this all with a hefty grain of salt, sure, but what I have heard through the grapevine is that UVA grads are seen as overtly preppy and can present a culture fit challenge to certain companies.

and I'll be clear, I had nothing against UVA until I came onto DCUM and saw the relentless boosterism and snootiness of UVA folks on here.

Yea they might not fit in at John Deere, but all the elite careers embrace this preppy vibe. Finance, Consulting, and Tech are where UVA grads end up. They're not designing tractors in Iowa.

Lol this is the thing about UVA — they're elitist but they're not elite. This is the crux of why so many find UVA distasteful.

UVA boosters keep trying but keep getting demolished.

What exactly are you disagreeing with? Are you saying that Finance, Consulting, and Tech are not the most desirable industries? Or are you really trying to pretend that they don’t hire UVA grads?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm one of the commenters above, and although I don't condone the all-out baseless bashing of any one school, I can assure you I'm not masquerading as multiple people in this thread, so there are at least a few people who share my opinion.

Take this all with a hefty grain of salt, sure, but what I have heard through the grapevine is that UVA grads are seen as overtly preppy and can present a culture fit challenge to certain companies.

and I'll be clear, I had nothing against UVA until I came onto DCUM and saw the relentless boosterism and snootiness of UVA folks on here.

Yea they might not fit in at John Deere, but all the elite careers embrace this preppy vibe. Finance, Consulting, and Tech are where UVA grads end up. They're not designing tractors in Iowa.

Lol this is the thing about UVA — they're elitist but they're not elite. This is the crux of why so many find UVA distasteful.

UVA boosters keep trying but keep getting demolished.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm one of the commenters above, and although I don't condone the all-out baseless bashing of any one school, I can assure you I'm not masquerading as multiple people in this thread, so there are at least a few people who share my opinion.

Take this all with a hefty grain of salt, sure, but what I have heard through the grapevine is that UVA grads are seen as overtly preppy and can present a culture fit challenge to certain companies.

and I'll be clear, I had nothing against UVA until I came onto DCUM and saw the relentless boosterism and snootiness of UVA folks on here.

Yea they might not fit in at John Deere, but all the elite careers embrace this preppy vibe. Finance, Consulting, and Tech are where UVA grads end up. They're not designing tractors in Iowa.

Lol this is the thing about UVA — they're elitist but they're not elite. This is the crux of why so many find UVA distasteful.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm one of the commenters above, and although I don't condone the all-out baseless bashing of any one school, I can assure you I'm not masquerading as multiple people in this thread, so there are at least a few people who share my opinion.

Take this all with a hefty grain of salt, sure, but what I have heard through the grapevine is that UVA grads are seen as overtly preppy and can present a culture fit challenge to certain companies.

and I'll be clear, I had nothing against UVA until I came onto DCUM and saw the relentless boosterism and snootiness of UVA folks on here.

Yea they might not fit in at John Deere, but all the elite careers embrace this preppy vibe. Finance, Consulting, and Tech are where UVA grads end up. They're not designing tractors in Iowa.

Anonymous wrote:I'm one of the commenters above, and although I don't condone the all-out baseless bashing of any one school, I can assure you I'm not masquerading as multiple people in this thread, so there are at least a few people who share my opinion.

Take this all with a hefty grain of salt, sure, but what I have heard through the grapevine is that UVA grads are seen as overtly preppy and can present a culture fit challenge to certain companies.

and I'll be clear, I had nothing against UVA until I came onto DCUM and saw the relentless boosterism and snootiness of UVA folks on here.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously people, saying that employers (or a “certain subset”) will not hire UVA grads is absolutely ridiculous. Sure there are some schools hiring managers may favor it maybe dislike for various reasons but the make a blanket statement like that is ludicrous. I have a friend who went to Uva (out of state - OMG people outside VA have heard of it?) and got a great job in IT right out of school, a few years later got his MBA in Finance at U Of Chicago and went onto make millions on Wall Street, recruited by just about every top firm. I personally am in the executive search business and everyone I know including our many clients sees UVA as a solid school with a +1 if you see that on their resume. No it’s not the cache of Ivy League but definitely seen as a top state school. Anyone saying differently has an agenda.

Anonymous wrote:I wish we could see IP addresses on posts. I bet most of these comments are being written by the same person.

Let's stop feeding this troll.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread and the posts herein illustrate it is not the boosters but the haters that are a problem. As a parent who’s child strived hard to secure admission - I just find all of this is in poor taste. Not that it should matter to the haters. Hope you can fill up on your diet of hate and step away for a few days. If not then keep it coming - if it boosts your self-esteem then so be it.

Congrats to your student, pp. I am a PA native and MD resident. I just don't understand the hate.

UVA was my first choice back in the 80's. I did not get in (and happily attended my 2nd choice).

My boss at my first (DC area) job attended a different VA university. We were talking one day and UVA came up. I was like, oh, my first choice, blah blah blah. He looked at me and said, if you had gone to UVA and I saw that on your resume, I would not have interviewed you. He was a very down to earth soft spoken nice guy, around 30 and married to a Mary Washington (place where you board a horse?) grad. I was taken aback and thought he was joking. He was not. I think of that exchange when I read some of these threads.

NP. Yep, UVA does not have a... stellar reputation (let's just say that) among a significant subset of employers.

Perhaps I’m hopelessly dense, but what point are you trying to make - that UVA has a less than stellar reputation with what subset of employers exactly? All PP revealed about her former employer is that he and/or his wife went to a lower-ranked in state school. Is that the type of employer UVA has a less than stellar reputation with? That doesn’t sound particularly concerning to me.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread and the posts herein illustrate it is not the boosters but the haters that are a problem. As a parent who’s child strived hard to secure admission - I just find all of this is in poor taste. Not that it should matter to the haters. Hope you can fill up on your diet of hate and step away for a few days. If not then keep it coming - if it boosts your self-esteem then so be it.

Congrats to your student, pp. I am a PA native and MD resident. I just don't understand the hate.

UVA was my first choice back in the 80's. I did not get in (and happily attended my 2nd choice).

My boss at my first (DC area) job attended a different VA university. We were talking one day and UVA came up. I was like, oh, my first choice, blah blah blah. He looked at me and said, if you had gone to UVA and I saw that on your resume, I would not have interviewed you. He was a very down to earth soft spoken nice guy, around 30 and married to a Mary Washington (place where you board a horse?) grad. I was taken aback and thought he was joking. He was not. I think of that exchange when I read some of these threads.

NP. Yep, UVA does not have a... stellar reputation (let's just say that) among a significant subset of employers.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread and the posts herein illustrate it is not the boosters but the haters that are a problem. As a parent who’s child strived hard to secure admission - I just find all of this is in poor taste. Not that it should matter to the haters. Hope you can fill up on your diet of hate and step away for a few days. If not then keep it coming - if it boosts your self-esteem then so be it.

Congrats to your student, pp. I am a PA native and MD resident. I just don't understand the hate.

UVA was my first choice back in the 80's. I did not get in (and happily attended my 2nd choice).

My boss at my first (DC area) job attended a different VA university. We were talking one day and UVA came up. I was like, oh, my first choice, blah blah blah. He looked at me and said, if you had gone to UVA and I saw that on your resume, I would not have interviewed you. He was a very down to earth soft spoken nice guy, around 30 and married to a Mary Washington (place where you board a horse?) grad. I was taken aback and thought he was joking. He was not. I think of that exchange when I read some of these threads.