<p>do you feel like you made the right decision in attending UVA? is it true that there are a lot of snotty people? is there visible racial self-segregation? is UVA respected outside of virginia? how's the school spirit?</p>
<p>if you could answer any of these questions, that would be great! i have never visited UVA, but im 75% sure i will attend this fall. (the other 25% of me is considering notre dame, unc-chapel hill, and nyu) </p>
<p>thanks in advance =)</p>
<p>Since you somehow want to go to a school you have never visited –</p>
<p>Every school has self-segregation
No snot here – everyone has a packet of Kleenex in his/her pocket.</p>
<p>How are you so sure you’re coming to a school if you still have so many doubts about it? There are thousands of threads discussing every single one of your questions, search a little.</p>
<p>I absolutely feel I’ve made the right decision coming to UVa. I turned down some of the same schools you guys are considering, so it’s interesting to see what questions you’re asking. I don’t think there’s a lot of arrogant people, we just have some tremendous school pride. I’d say we’re respected outside of Virginia, we’re not quite a regional school.</p>
<p>As to the snobby question, here’s a post I wrote quite a while back:
[up</a> close and personal with UVA students: yeah, we’re like, so elitist.](<a href=“http://uvalife.blogspot.com/2008/06/yeah-were-like-so-elitist.html]up”>up close and personal with a UVA student: yeah, we're like, so elitist.)</p>
<p>Cheers from the UVa student blog.</p>
<p>wahoomb, if you’re not gonna be helpful, just don’t write anything, k?? thanks hun.</p>
<p>My son recently spent 5 days there for the Jefferson Scholar Finalist weekend (he was not selected). He repeatedly noted (in calls home and after coming home) the extreme racial segregation. It was the only thing about the school that gave him pause. He said the students were uniformly kind, friendly and outgoing. He also reports that the campus is quite pretty.</p>
<p>You come to a UVA forum and start writing all these non-sense questions (some of which have all been answered here a million times) and some others that are so dumb they’re not even worth answering. What do you expect for UVA students in this forum to do? No one is going to beg you to come to UVA. It seems extremely weird for someone who already has pretty much decided to attend UVA to not know some basic things about the school and its reputation (Is UVA respected outside of Virginia?, really?). Good luck finding whatever it is you’re looking for.</p>
<p>I live in Philly and a lot of kids in my class applied to UVa. It’s definitely respected here. A lot of people were excited when I told them I got in. A lot more respected than PSU and Pitt and other state schools.</p>
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<p>uva was my first choice. i love it here no question. but i do wonder if i would have loved it somewhere else just as much, that didn’t have the huge price tag. :</p>
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<p>where?? i went to hs in montgomery county and just moved into philly proper recently.</p>
<p>wahoomb, does it LOOK like i want people to beg me to go to UVA? umm i dont think so. and what really makes my questions non-sensical? if other people have already asked them, APPARENTLY other people are thinking them too. for instance, deirdre acknowledged that her/his son did see “extreme racial segregation.” so yeah, i think that question is pretty relevant.</p>
<p>also, i ask about how UVA is respected elsewhere because a lot of people i talk to (in jersey/new york) dont really know how prestigious the school is. it’s not a major factor in my decision, i’m asking out of CURIOSITY.</p>
<p>lastly, about the snobby people thing. if people at UVA are anything like you (arrogant, sarcastic, disrespectful) i guess you kind of indirectly answered my question. i really hope that’s not the case though.</p>
<p>but thanks to the other posters who actually gave me some useful information. </p>
<p>and melli~i’m going to visit uva and the other schools i’ve gotten into some time this month. i hope that makes the decision clearer for me!</p>
<p>I’d love to see where Deirdre’s son saw extreme racial segregation. I’m Asian and while I do see some, it’s not near enough to be called extreme. It’s natural for the white kid to check his footsteps and possibly go in another direction if he sees a bunch of people talking loudly in a different language at nearby tables. I would, natural instinct.</p>
<p>there are racial incidents reported every year…</p>
<p>My son attends a very average Louisville high school, probably about 50% white, 35% african american and 15% all other (asian, hispanic, various immigrant). At his school there is a slight racial self segregation, but much more academic segregation (that is all the IB kids pretty much hang together, etc). I wasn’t at UVA with him, so I can only report what he has mentioned, but he says he was repeatedly struck by the white/black divide. He noted that asians mixed freely with white students. It bothered him enough to mention it several times. Everything else about the school he found very appealing.</p>
<p>People are friends with people whom they feel most comfortable around. If it happens to be that Latino students are friends with other Latino students or Asian students are friends with other Asian students, it does not mean that there’s “tension” among different ethnic groups, it’s just how things work out. The segregation at UVA (which it is kind of obvious), does not imply that there’s tension or hostility from any one group towards the other, it just happens to be that black students are mostly friends with other black students. I have never really understood why this is viewed as a “problem”. People are friends with people they choose to be friends with, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I’m Latino and I was involved with a lot of the Latino groups on grounds so my interaction with Asians/Blacks and white students was limited to the classroom. Most of my friends were Latinos and other international students and we connected because of our language, our culture and how we view things.</p>
<p>do you feel like you made the right decision in attending UVA? – YES
is it true that there are a lot of snotty people? – UVa is no different from any other school, so of course there are snotty people here. Do they dominate the scene? Not at all. I, fortunately, have only interacted with a few of these types of people in my past two years (whoa, I’ve been here for two years already!!!)
is there visible racial self-segregation? – again, this is going to occur at any school. People here hang out with those they feel most comfortable around, and people may come from a background where they’re uncomfortable or unexperienced with interacting with other races. I, personally, don’t see a ton of segregation, and I don’t foster it either. Even frats/sororities have a solid mixture of people.<br>
is UVA respected outside of virginia? – Extremely well. My mom actually just told me last night that my dad was wearing a UVA shirt while out in CA for vacation, and some guy commented on it being a fabulous school. People at my internships the last two summers have also commented on the prestigious nature. Besides, it’s the #2 public school…how much more do you need? 
how’s the school spirit? – one of the best parts of this place. Everyone loves to be a Cav/Hoo, whether its being at a football game or just being a student on grounds. The pride of attending here is insane, and it’s a glorious feeling to say “I go to UVA”. The traditions here are also are one-of-a-kind, as no one but UVA alumni would understand streaking the lawn, the wahoo-wa chant, Midsummers, or any of the other countless traditions. </p>
<p>To put it quite frank: I could never imagine not going here. I’m sad I only have a little over a year left. I’m staying here this summer JUST to be here as much as I can. I honestly believe that if anyone is to attend here, they would have an amazing 4-year experience. The crapola about racial segregation and rich snobs and blahblah is unfounded and plain dumb. There is no way 13K students can all be exactly the same, so you’re bound to find your niche. Also, the possibilities of those types of things happening is a BIG IF. Knowing you’ll attend a fabulous school and make friends, memories, and knowledge for life is a HUGE DEFINITE. </p>
<p>Congrads on getting accepted :)</p>
<p>you should really visit the school, go to DOTL or something, after I visited the school I felt much better about it, and my appreciation for UVA rose a lot, i couldn’t really see myself going there until I visited, after I visited I definitly came to the conclusion that UVA was somewhere I wanted to be</p>