Anonymous wrote:The UVA crazies are giving the school a bad name. It's fine to love your school but no need to bash other schools.

Trump playbook.

The UVA crazies are giving the school a bad name. It's fine to love your school but no need to bash other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Davidson can’t be that good or they would know about the moon landing.

He didn't graduate.

Duke has a flat-earther.

Anonymous wrote:Davidson is in UVA's league. Villanova is not. It's a complete joke to suggest otherwise. Villanova is a fine school, but it's not a prestige school. UVA is, and has been for a long time.

You people and your "prestige" are crazy.
ACT 25 75
Villanova 30 - 33
UVA 29- 33

They are both good schools, but there is not a whole lot of difference in the kids that attend them. (Source Institutional CDS 2017)

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova is more prestigious, unless your kid has a STRONG in at a top tier UVA frat/srat house.

Villanova has had 3 Rhodes Scholars in its entire history. UVA has had 53.

THIS.

Davidson is in the same region as UVA and has over 4X as many Rhodes Scholars on a per capita basis. Is it 4X as good as UVA?

The University of Mississippi has the same number as Georgetown, and both have more than Berkeley. Sewanee has more than any of those. Clearly Rhodes scholarships are meaningful, but you shouldn't use it as the only indicator of institutional quality.

yes, and that's the thing. UVA surpasses Villanova on pretty much every objective measure of institutional quality, Rhodes Scholars included..

Here's a link to colleges ranked by Rhodes recipients The top ten:

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
West Point
Dartmouth
Brown
UVA
Chicago
Navy

That's pretty damned good company and means something.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/universities-by-number-of-rhodes-scholars.html

Meh....it’s only meaningful if you adjust for student population.

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Anonymous wrote:Davidson can’t be that good or they would know about the moon landing.

He didn't graduate.

He had a pretty good backup plan.

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova is more prestigious, unless your kid has a STRONG in at a top tier UVA frat/srat house.

Villanova has had 3 Rhodes Scholars in its entire history. UVA has had 53.

THIS.

Davidson is in the same region as UVA and has over 4X as many Rhodes Scholars on a per capita basis. Is it 4X as good as UVA?

The University of Mississippi has the same number as Georgetown, and both have more than Berkeley. Sewanee has more than any of those. Clearly Rhodes scholarships are meaningful, but you shouldn't use it as the only indicator of institutional quality.

yes, and that's the thing. UVA surpasses Villanova on pretty much every objective measure of institutional quality, Rhodes Scholars included..

Here's a link to colleges ranked by Rhodes recipients The top ten:

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
West Point
Dartmouth
Brown
UVA
Chicago
Navy

That's pretty damned good company and means something.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/universities-by-number-of-rhodes-scholars.html

Anonymous wrote:Davidson can’t be that good or they would know about the moon landing.

He didn't graduate.

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova is more prestigious, unless your kid has a STRONG in at a top tier UVA frat/srat house.

Villanova has had 3 Rhodes Scholars in its entire history. UVA has had 53.

THIS.

Davidson is in the same region as UVA and has over 4X as many Rhodes Scholars on a per capita basis. Is it 4X as good as UVA?

The University of Mississippi has the same number as Georgetown, and both have more than Berkeley. Sewanee has more than any of those. Clearly Rhodes scholarships are meaningful, but you shouldn't use it as the only indicator of institutional quality.

yes, and that's the thing. UVA surpasses Villanova on pretty much every objective measure of institutional quality, Rhodes Scholars included..

Davidson can’t be that good or they would know about the moon landing.

Davidson is in UVA's league. Villanova is not. It's a complete joke to suggest otherwise. Villanova is a fine school, but it's not a prestige school. UVA is, and has been for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova is more prestigious, unless your kid has a STRONG in at a top tier UVA frat/srat house.

Villanova has had 3 Rhodes Scholars in its entire history. UVA has had 53.

THIS.

Davidson is in the same region as UVA and has over 4X as many Rhodes Scholars on a per capita basis. Is it 4X as good as UVA?

The University of Mississippi has the same number as Georgetown, and both have more than Berkeley. Sewanee has more than any of those. Clearly Rhodes scholarships are meaningful, but you shouldn't use it as the only indicator of institutional quality.

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova is more prestigious, unless your kid has a STRONG in at a top tier UVA frat/srat house.

Villanova has had 3 Rhodes Scholars in its entire history. UVA has had 53.

THIS.

Davidson is in the same region as UVA and has over 4X as many Rhodes Scholars on a per capita basis. Is it 4X as good as UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova is more prestigious, unless your kid has a STRONG in at a top tier UVA frat/srat house.

Villanova has had 3 Rhodes Scholars in its entire history. UVA has had 53.

THIS.

Both great schools -- typically they'd appeal to families with very different priorities. Villanova is much smaller, private, Catholic, primarily focused on undergrads vs. much larger, public, highly ranked state flagship. Culture is just very different. Both have very strong alum community/networking.