Perception of UVA outside of VA

doonerak
Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:17:40 +0000

H, you stole my thunder but here goes anyway.

OP, when you say people don’t know about UVA, exactly what people are you talking about? Keep in mind it has a top rated undergrad business school, Darden’s a top 10 regularly, the Law School, the Med school, and I could go on. Its highly likely that any prospective employer or grad school will be very familiar with UVA. Consider another scenario: if you are planning to open a restaurant in New Mexico after you graduate, the banker you ask for a loan will recognize the UVA name but who’s going to get better name recognition than that? only HYP and maybe a couple of other Ivies plus G’town and Duke largely on the strength of their sports teams. You think Carnegie-Mellon is a household item in New Mexico? The same banker won’t be exactly wowed by any of the small LACs either, no matter how good they are. Its a hypothetical but you get the point.

Bedouin, please give us the basis for your comments. They don’t correspond to reality. People actually drive from DC to C’ville just to eat there and the C’ville restaurant scene gets highlighted every year in the W Post. It may be two hours from DC but its no backwater.