<p>Lolz 10 char</p>
<p>How Many UVa grads have become Fortune 500 CEO’s–a much greater accomplishment?</p>
<p>UW GRADS have won multiple Nobel prizes and so has the faculty. UVa Not so much. Cling to your little Rhodes–it’s all you really have.</p>
<p>Barrons, why do you hate UVA so much?</p>
<p>Also, what do you do for a living? You must have a lot of free time to have over 10,000 posts. I used to be here all the time, but when you move up in your career, you have less time to participate in collegiate forums.</p>
<p>Welcome back Globalist :)</p>
<p>It’s great to see you still here, Shoebox.</p>
<p>I’ve always sorta liked this WSJ article and rankings of the top “feeder” schools to the best graduate schools. Note to barron’s: it suggests that U-Va undergrads are admitted to the top law, business, and med schools at six times the rate of UW undergrads. It also puts to bed the notion that big name profs make a difference.</p>
<p>[The</a> Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition](<a href=“WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights”>WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights)</p>
<p>The WSJ feeder rankings are the most obscenely ridiculous use of stats I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how anybody who’s smart enough to tie his own shoes could be swayed even slightly by such a thing.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to speak for barrons, but it seems apparent that he spends a lot of time in Virginia, and he probably knows more than a few Virginia grads. Barrons being educated in the Midwest (where being humble is still looked on favorably), it’s quite possible the UVa grads (many of whom probably grew up in swanky DC suburbs) impress him as being a little too full of themselves.</p>
<p>I’m a Midwestern guy myself, but when I was 16-22 I lived near Boston, so I’m pretty familiar with the concept of full-of-themselves psudo-sophisticates being distasteful to the Midwestern palate. So before you heap scorn on him, take off you tassled loafers and walk a mile in his work boots.</p>
<p>Why would a UW grad want to spend the money to go to an expensive private OOS grad school when they have perfectly fine grad schools right at home?? Wisconsin has two med schools that give residents priority and lower tuition. Much lower than most. Same for Law and Business.
Globe–I work as a semi-independent consultant which means I work as much or little as I like. At my age less is more. I get to retire to Virginia in a few years in one of my two homes there so my time is my own. It’s a good thing. I have all the stuff I need so working is more a hobby than a necessity now. But the health insurance is a must.</p>
<p>And I don’t “hate” Uva. I think it is somewhat overrated as a university with some significant holes in the academic infrastructure. Obviously the students are generally very good to excellent.</p>
<p>And wasn’t I pretty much on point with my distrust and general hatred for Wall Street? Now everyone is in on that party.</p>
<p>Yes, because us Virginians have no sense of working hard…</p>
<p>Schmaltz, barrons may be a lot of things but from the sounds of his posts “humble” ain’t one of them. </p>
<p>Of course the WSJ rankings are obscenely ridiculous. Any ranking of any kind that doesn’t place UW at the top of the list is, by definition, suspect. </p>
<p>Note to barrons: your point about UW’s grads schools is silly. U-Va’s business and law schools are better than UW’s by a mile and its medical school is a peer. And they’re all full of U-Va grads PLUS U-Va tops the WSJ list. See, you can have your cake and eat it too. . .</p>