<p>I don’t know from what sources fineartsmajormom has gathered her information. Bad grad school placement? I’m a Stanford PhD student, along with at least 5 other UVA students (in my class alone) that I know who are also PhD students in the social sciences, at least a dozen in each the b-school and law school. You don’t believe me? Walk around campus. Bad law school placement? UVA sends at least a dozen of its students to Harvard Law, Columbia and other T-14 (we send at least 2-3 to Yale Law) and 45-55 students to UVA Law ( a top-10 law school). Bad employment? Ok, if you discount the entire comm school and the obscene number of elite firms who come to campus to recruit students…I don’t even want to go through each thing that you’ve listed as you are outright lying. Ok I get, UVA does not offer fluffy majors like “photography” and “still life” but you don’t have to knock it just because your kids want to major in useless things and want to go to obscure art schools in New England. When you have a kid at a UVA-equivalent school or an Ivy League, come back with grad school placement statistics and employment numbers. Until then, please just stay in your “Visual Arts” forums.</p>