point guard recruit for UVA hasn't qualified yet

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An excerpt from the Roanoke Times saying that Jontel Evans(UVA recruit ) hasn't qualified.
terriffic point guard.Appeared in today's edition.
Kepp your eyes on that development.

"ONE NOTE OF CAUTION for Virginia basketball is the qualifying status of fall signee Jontel Evans, a point guard for Bethel High School. Evans still has not qualified for freshman eligibility, although it is believed he is close."
 
This just shows the TRUTH. uvas standards are no different than anyone elses. They lie and want everyone to think they do though. They use that for their excuse for how bad they are.
 
ramfan said:
This just shows the TRUTH. uvas standards are no different than anyone elses. They lie and want everyone to think they do though. They use that for their excuse for how bad they are.
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Vintage ramfan :lol:
 
ramfan said:
This just shows the TRUTH. uvas standards are no different than anyone elses. They lie and want everyone to think they do though. They use that for their excuse for how bad they are.
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I thought they did have higher academic standards, was that why sewell and fitzgerald had all the problems they did?
 
The quality of the education at UVA is way beyond most schools - -which means the work is generally harder as well. The biggest thing is probably whether the players can keep up once there, not so much whether they can get into the school in the first place.
 
ramfan said:
This just shows the TRUTH. uvas standards are no different than anyone elses. They lie and want everyone to think they do though. They use that for their excuse for how bad they are.
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You've got to be kidding right? Their standards are way above anyone in the state.
 
Virginia's requirements for "normal" students is much higher (I'd guess at least 300 points in SATs) than VCU's.

Virginia's requirements for basketball (and football) players is the same, which is the NCAA minimum.

In fact, Virginia - as well as Virginia Tech - often recruits athletes well below minimum. Probably 90 percent of the athletes transferring there from Fork Union or Hargrave failed to received the minimum grades/standardized scores as high-school seniors.
 
Rambunctious said:
The quality of the education at UVA is way beyond most schools - -which means the work is generally harder as well. The biggest thing is probably whether the players can keep up once there, not so much whether they can get into the school in the first place.
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I've worked at UVa and at VCU. I've known people who have transfered to and from VCU/UVa. There is little difference in quality of actual education and little difference in difficulty (for most programs at the two schools).

The big difference is in perception of who is better. And because UVa generally accepts higher caliber students (grade/SAT wise) they are able to maintain that perception.

So don't let the UVa mystic fool you...there ain't a whole lot of difference.
 
Come on guys, don't buy into the misconception that UVA's standards are any different for student/athletes than VCU's. As Bighorn stated, that is absolutely not the case. They readily accept kids who predict using the NCAA minimum. I know this for a fact!

I honestly did not think anyone out there still bought into that worn out misinformation that UVA puts out there.
 
No, no, no. UVA's standards for both regular students, as well as student athletes, are decidedly higher than they are most places. To think otherwise is just silly. There is a reason it generally ranks in the top three public institutions in the nation year in and year out. We can make fun of them for many reasons, but to imply that UVA isn't a top-tier school academically in every form is just trying to spread misinformation.

I was accepted at UVA, W&M and VCU. I came to VCU for the experience of living in Richmond (which, if any of you have followed my posts over the years know, I loved) -- but I certainly didn't come to VCU because our general* level of academics are on par with either of those other institutions.

*Note: I say general, because VCU obviously has many programs that outshine UVA or W&M, but I also had a great number of classes at VCU taught by professors that knew less about the subject than I already did. We have some great teachers, but we have some really, really bad ones too.
 
Your confusing the general student population with student athletes. I don't think anyone is saying that UVA's admission standards are not higher than VCU's or many other institutions of higher learning, just not for student athletes. They take NCAA minimum qualifiers on a regular ongoing basis!
 
BradRamFan said:
Rambunctious said:
The quality of the education at UVA is way beyond most schools - -which means the work is generally harder as well. The biggest thing is probably whether the players can keep up once there, not so much whether they can get into the school in the first place.
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I've worked at UVa and at VCU. I've known people who have transfered to and from VCU/UVa. There is little difference in quality of actual education and little difference in difficulty (for most programs at the two schools).

The big difference is in perception of who is better. And because UVa generally accepts higher caliber students (grade/SAT wise) they are able to maintain that perception.

So don't let the UVa mystic fool you...there ain't a whole lot of difference.
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I don't care if you worked there...that has to be the dumbest thing I've heard in awhile. Each to his own opinion, I guess. For the most part VCU does not even begin to compare to UVA. But you are right in the fact that the majority of their students actually care about academics. Also, with higher student competition comes higher prof's expectations for those students....basically, it's a chain reaction and to say that there is no difference or that part of that "equation" is merely a facade, is simply ridiculous.
 
MozingoWasFilthy said:
So don't let the UVa mystic fool you...there ain't a whole lot of difference.
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The UVa grads I know can spell "mystique."
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Perhaps. My spelling is atrocious. That is what happens when one relies on spell check over the last decade. But then again I never did win the spelling bee as a kid.

All I know...from a biology point of view: The same thing taught and tested in gen bio at VCU is the same taught/tested at UVa. The same goes for genetics, embryology, cell biology, molecular biology, etc. Macro/micro econ is pretty standard across all curricular programs....german is german, french is french. You can't really change european history from one school to another. Subject matter remains consistent. You have the ability to learn the exact same thing at VCU as you can at UVa.

The main difference again is simply perception
 
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