<p>I don’t think anyone is saying that UVa is the no. 1 bar-none greatest school for academics in the universe. However, when one looks at the grand scheme of things - UVa is only rivalled by an extremely tiny percentage of schools in the country. Out of about 3000 4 year schools in this country, one could easily make the argument that UVa is in the top 1% of them. In my opinion, that puts it in the group of the “the best.” Now, if you want to narrow it down even further, thats fine. </p>
<p>But I honestly don’t think if you took the average professor from harvard or chicago and objectively compared them to the average professor at UVa you would find much of a difference.</p>
<p>that being said if you took the average student at UVa and put them up against the average student at chicago or harvard - they would be comparable - albeit maybe scoring 100 points less on the SATs.</p>