<p>I’m kind of suprised that chicago had such a bad presentation in your area. I’ve been really impressed with the way chicago advertises itself. Brown has also had really good presentations. The worst presentations I’ve ever seen were Georgetown’s- their admissions officers were painfully dull and the presentation completely turned me off the school. </p>
<p>As for University of Texas v. University of Virginia, in all the non USNWR rankings I’ve seen UT has been ranked much higher than University of Virginia- in the Times Higher Education Supplement, UT is ranked 9th in North America (after UofC and before Columbia) and in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings, UT’s ranked 36th in the world. I’m not saying that these rankings are in any way more reliable, just that University of Virginia is in no way definitively better than UT, and it isn’t strange for UT to be more highly regarded.</p>