<p>You guys make me laugh. Not every student at Harvard, Yale, or U. Chicago fall within “the best” category. (I hate to refer to US News rankings but for the sake of argument, even Harvard’s Engineering dept. is ranked #30 - hardly the best, but that won’t stop Harvard from considering itself “the best university” in the country, even the world.) </p>
<p>Furthermore, if you’ve taken a class taught by Rita Dove, Larry Sabato, or any of the many other great professors at UVa, or have studied with any of many students at UVa who did better than 1490 in the their SATs, then guess what? You have learned (and studied) with among the best.</p>