<p>cav,</p>
<p>ive taken upper level classes at uva, maybe you havn’t. granted they’re not in engineering or economics, but I still have taken upper level classes in music and history. The professors don’t get worse as you go to a higher level - they get better.</p>
<p>Also, interesting that you bring up MIT - Now while I don’t think that on a total scale that UVa’s student body is as strong, however, there is 1 thing i should point out. UVa’s first year class is about 3200 - MITs is about 1000.<br>
the top 800 students in UVas incoming class this year had 1490 or better on their SATs, the top 750 students in MITs first year class had 1510 on their SATs or better. I don’t find that very different. I’m sure the rest of their academic records are equally as strong.</p>
<p>I think its safe to say you could fill an MIT up from UVa students and have a equally strong school - student wise at least. Same goes for Harvard, where 1200 of their 1600 first year class had an SAT score of at least 1400 - which I’m sure you have 1200 kids in UVa’s most recent class that have at least a 1400.</p>
<p>So yes, I will admit that my statement of the average virginia student is equal to the average student at a harvard was a little bit of hyperbole, but, UVa’s student body (as well as berkeley’s and michigan’s) can more than match Harvard and MITs student body.</p>