<p>My experience at UVA so far has attested to a plethora of people here who hardly qualify as the ‘best scholars’, at least in terms of the top students in the nation who attend mainly the top ranked private schools, and the data back that up as well. While Berkeley undergrad I would argue is on equal terms with UVA, particularly in this debate about the ‘best scholars’, their grad school definitely blows UVA out. That does not mean that the students at UVA are all bad people, or they all are boring and stupid, but it still means that the admissions website, in my view, is basically lying to prospective students.</p>