I'm white. I wouldn't send my child there now. If nothing else, I wouldn't want people to assume my child is a racist because they're a UVa Alum.

It will become a white school, plus for some, because no minority in their right mind would go to Chalottsville after this. UVA did not protect its summer students very well on Friday night and did a poor job with statements about it. Even Asian students will likely stear clear. They may be the "model minority" but they know when the Klan comes to town, they're gunning for them too.

Anonymous wrote:No affect. Berkeley has gone through eras of protests for decades and still ranks in the top ten of best universities in the world. I would have had no issue with any of my DCs going to Berkeley.

As POC, I would not want my DCs going to UVA.

This past year 2 kids from our W high school went to UVA and after freshman year transferred out and into UMd because of the atmosphere at UVA.

lol are yall that naive

uva/ivies have always been a haven of elite privilege (note elite not white racist mfs)

all the bad stuff you see in movies about elite private and private boardings schools a lot of it is real and is reflected on college campuses and then onto board rooms

these people never growup sadly

The school, the state, the nation, and the Leadership in the White House.

Where do you begin when the US President is a White national supremacist, KKK klansman and neo Nazi or in the very least is in collusion with these racists and Russia. Good lord, even Steve Bannon, a leading and self reported White racist, is in his WH west wing bedroom with national security clearance. And America stands by while this nepotistic cabal of millionaires and billionaires raids the US treasury.

Anonymous wrote:These posts all seem reinforce ones view that the place just isn't what it used to be and more importantly is highly overrated.

It's probably less prejudiced now than it's ever been, but some prejudice remains and the school has a serious case of denial of its past.

Overrated is an understatement indeed.

These posts all seem reinforce ones view that the place just isn't what it used to be and more importantly is highly overrated.

...drugs too when I went there.

UVA is more attractive to dumb jocks. The animal house culture there revolves around alcohol, frats/sororities, and rampant homo- and heterosexual abuse. Classic historical psychological profile of the UVA scene.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is a minority being recruited by one of their sports teams....this is making me re-think and potentially talk to my child's travel coach about re-focusing their efforts elsewhere. Sports team or not, I cannot be fearful of my child's safety.

If your kid is good enough for ACc sports, and is a minority, surely he/she can go to an Ivy League school.
Why go to uva?

Ivies don't offer scholarships and the ACC is a stronger athletic conference, so that makes UVA very attractive for bright and athletic kids. But my son has also been recruited by UVA and I am rethinking pursuing that opportunity for him. I'd rather get a second job to afford an Ivy League school than sending him to a alt-right hot bed.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there is a difference between the protests at Berkeley and nazis making themselves at home.

Both were the same antifas and blm are terrorist hate groups

No. Nice try.

+1. Most of us are not wearing blinders.

If you think antifa and blm are not hater groups you are truly blind and stupidly bias. This is why Trump won, stop it please.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a minority being recruited by one of their sports teams....this is making me re-think and potentially talk to my child's travel coach about re-focusing their efforts elsewhere. Sports team or not, I cannot be fearful of my child's safety.

If your kid is good enough for ACc sports, and is a minority, surely he/she can go to an Ivy League school.
Why go to uva?

As a black alum of the UVA, what's been troubling to me is "the University" and Charlottesville community's disingenuous statements about how out of character this is for the community. Jefferson himself founded the University on white supremacist principles that have been maintained in one form or another throughout the history of the school. Indeed, my experience has been that the the legacy of racism permeates the campus. I would have far more respect for "the University" if it acknowledged this and pledged to purge itself of the vestiges of it's horrendous record on race, instead of merely distancing itself from the alt-right protesters.