(11-17-2021 03:55 PM)Dukes94 Wrote:  On average, UVa is the "best" school in the state. The have outstanding academics, are considered one of the very best schools in America by many publications, and have a national-caliber athletics program with many national championships. That said, everybody at my high school who went to UVa was a prick. It's not for everyone.

Today, I have a little more perspective and know a lot of people who went to UVa who aren't pricks. They weren't wealthy, or from a private school, or legacies, or anything. They went to UVa because they thought they'd get a good education, and even realize and freely admit there are a lot of douchebags in Hooville.

This was my experience with UVa as well. I probably didn't have the grades to get in, but the kids from my high school who went there were mostly pretentious a-holes so I never seriously considered applying.

Then I went to JMU and graduated and met UVa students and grads along the way, and they were generally nice, fun people who'd gone because it was a good school. I think that's true, more or less, across the board in VA- no individual school has a singular "type" of student or graduate, although certainly some schools concentrate on specific areas more than others.