UVA's reputation

[Dr. Donkey]

How is UVA's reputation nationally? I've heard a lot of people being very critical of it. Is it overrated by USNEWS (ranked 26th)?



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[ohsocrafty22]

As a university, UVA is very well recognized - they often consider themselves (appropriately so) a public ivy league school.
As for the medical school, let me tell you about some of their graduates: my brother is a cardiology fellow (WashU) and was a chief resident of internal medicine (Vanderbilt) prior to that...he has spoken very highly of UVA medical school graduates he has seen and their abilities as physicians. Moreover, speaking to UVA graduates, they have nothing but good things to say about their training.
Take a look at where their students match for residency. The school fills the spectrum of competitive residencies as well as producing a lot of internal medicine docs. More importantly, their medical students match at very good hospitals for their residencies!
I don't know where you get the idea that UVA is overranked...they have a lot of great research, high standards for their accepted students, and great residency director scores!
Hope this helps!

How is UVA's reputation nationally? I've heard a lot of people being very critical of it. Is it overrated by USNEWS (ranked 26th)?

 

[Dr. Donkey]

Dank you very much for your thoughtful reply. I think I get the impression that UVA is overrated mostly from applicants/students at the other Virginia medical schools and by the relatively low profile it seems to keep in forums such as this one. I wondering how accurate and/or unbiased the impressions of students at the other VA schools are though, probably not very. UVA does look like it has a good match list. And about that "public ivy" thing. I heard it was acctually coined specifically in regards to UVA by Faulker who was in residence there.

As a university, UVA is very well recognized - they often consider themselves (appropriately so) a public ivy league school.
As for the medical school, let me tell you about some of their graduates: my brother is a cardiology fellow (WashU) and was a chief resident of internal medicine (Vanderbilt) prior to that...he has spoken very highly of UVA medical school graduates he has seen and their abilities as physicians. Moreover, speaking to UVA graduates, they have nothing but good things to say about their training.
Take a look at where their students match for residency. The school fills the spectrum of competitive residencies as well as producing a lot of internal medicine docs. More importantly, their medical students match at very good hospitals for their residencies!
I don't know where you get the idea that UVA is overranked...they have a lot of great research, high standards for their accepted students, and great residency director scores!
Hope this helps!

 

[ohsocrafty22]

I completely agree with you on your analysis of other Virginia schools and their opinions of UVA - those schools seem to put UVA in a bad light.
However, I think UVA's program is great and produces excellent, well-prepared physicians!

Dank you very much for your thoughtful reply. I think I get the impression that UVA is overrated mostly from applicants/students at the other Virginia medical schools and by the relatively low profile it seems to keep in forums such as this one. I wondering how accurate and/or unbiased the impressions of students at the other VA schools are though, probably not very. UVA does look like it has a good match list. And about that "public ivy" thing. I heard it was acctually coined specifically in regards to UVA by Faulker who was in residence there.