Lower middle class Asian at UVA?

ZebraRider
Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:21:47 +0000

To be honest, Southern is kind of a minority at UVA, despite it being in the “South.” Geographically, it really isn’t that South at all, and culturally, it’s mostly made up of people from this magical place called Nova (Northern VA, aka DC metro area/suburbia). Nova kids absolutely refuse to consider themselves southerners because they’re really not. A lot of them are military kids who have moved all around the country and are therefore, extremely culturally diverse. In a sense, UVA is probably more like NYC than what you may have in mind as a Southern school.

And if it makes you feel any better, there is a pretty high Asian population there. Collegeboard says it’s only 12% but I really think it’s higher than that.

As for the economic status, I think it goes for almost every college that there is a higher amount of “upper class” students. It’s just how it works when it comes to college. College is quite pricey after all. It’s really rare to find a college that would be as economically diverse as your high school. But even so, it is still a public school, so it might not be as disproportionate.