<p>thanks brishe for the information. I am a second year transfer and will like the page.</p>
<p>I just visited the grounds today and it was amazing. We stopped and talked to different people and everyone was extremely friendly. We even invited a student who we had just met to have a drink with us and this was in the middle of finals week! I’ll admit, I did have some concerns based on the stereotypes I had heard about. However, that’s all they were, just stereotypes. UVA is a great place and if you’ve heard otherwise, come visit. Ill be a student in the fall and can’t wait!</p>
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<p>Since when did drugs become “just drugs”… They’re not illegal for no reason…</p>
<p>Can we not have this debate on this forum. And UVaorBust, I hope UVA enlightens you.</p>
<p>Lol, if you mean enlighten me in the sense of me liking drugs, I don’t think so… But everyone deserves to make their own choices.</p>
<p>I meant “enlighten” in the sense that you’ll be able to decide for yourself whether something is “good” or “bad” based on what you know, rather than simply writing something off as “good” or “bad” based on what the government/politicians tell you. And this goes for everything, not just drugs (like gay marriage–it’s not illegal for no reason).</p>
<p>That is actually a good point wahoomb. I won’t be doing drugs for personal reasons, not because I’ve been told not to. However, that gay marriage point is so true.</p>
<p>If there was a like button on here, I would have liked your post :)</p>
<p>UVA is a great school I visited really friendly people but somethings cought my attention. First not economically diverse campus, you will asians, blacks, hispanics, whites but the majortity are middle to upper-middle class and preppy. I did visit and people at the university where in their own bubble, I am from outofstate so I felt completely out of place and alone. I went to their dinning halls and I saw a lot of self segregation between the different races. Coming from an extremely liberal/diverse high school in south florida seeing that was kinda of a shock. Can’t say much about the town cause I was only on campus for 2 days. I tried to interact with people but I couldn’t cause many of them had not left their home state, virginia, and couldn’t relate to the immigrant expirience I have. UVA is a school that still has a long way to go when it comes to diversity and I guess the only reason why they accepted me was because I am hispanic and immigrated to the U.S. 6 years ago without knowing any english. But I felt like I didn’t have the credentials of a UVA student, most of my time viting I felt extremely depressed and alone I just wanted to get out of there, lol! I mean 70% of the time I spend it playing Gears of War on my host’s room. I did look around and it is a beautiful campus and great honor code but unfortunately I didn’t find a connection with the White preppy culture which was really intimidating. When I told my host I wasn’t going attend because it wasn’t a diverse school and a little too conservative he said that many students acknowledge the fact that the univeristy isn’t ideolocially or racially diverse at it should be and that many groups on campus aren’t as outspoken because they are assimilated in the white preppy culture of UVA. It is a sad reallity, I mean I guess you don’t see these kind of things if you don’t come out of state. UVA= great academics, not diverse student body.</p>
<p>Why caan’t …we … j…jjuust… get along</p>
<p>Some of the students are socially aware and academically interested. Some are not. Who you meet depends on what classes you take and what clubs you look into. Its a huge school, and there are all kinds of people here. It’s absurd to say that a school with 13,000 undergrads “doesn’t know what weed is.” It’s a huge school, I don’t think I can say that enough.
UVa and Charlottesville both have a radical/far left community, but you have to seek it out. You can find anyone and anything here, and I’m really not kidding. Don’t focus on what “the majority of students” are like. If you want to know if you can find people like yourself, the answer is “yes!”
RedCzar94, I’m sorry you had a bad visit. I just want you to know that we have international and recently immigrated students here. Not a whole lot, and you probably wouldn’t meet them on a short visit, but I assure you they exist. I know some of them! If you are a student (not a visitor) you are able to look for people with similar interests and experiences in student clubs.</p>