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I based my final decision off the fact that I thought the campus at UVA was nicer looking.

academics, social life, and outdoors, the people that go there, most likely you will meet your best friends for life at UVA :) I did!

The honor code is taken seriously and generally upheld by all.

UVa is the #1 public school in the country so that definitely attracted me. Also, being a minority I feel like it is more diverse than the other schools I was looking at.

My school really values this sense of student self-governance. It is found in everything we do, from Student Council to the student-led Honor system, to individual student organizations and the one-on-one relationships between students and professors. It is breathtaking and amazing to see what U.Va. has accomplished based solely on its student efforts. Students, teachers, and administrators all engage each other in this academic community at U.Va.

The Echols Scholars program, which is a bit like an honors program. However, instead of having students take specific courses, Echols Scholars have no general requirements and are instead encouraged to explore their individual passions in coursework.

UVA appealed to me because of its rich tradition of honor and integrity. The first thing that we hear about when we start on grounds are the traditions and beliefs that every student embodies. Every person who has ever spent time at UVA understands the importance of the Honor Code and what it says to the world about us as students. Not only is UVA seeped in tradition, but it also embraces change and growth. Expansion and the adoption of more progressive policies have come at an appropriate rate with careful consideration about the history of the school.

Although the first year you are not allowed to have cars on campus, alot of the campus is in walking distance. Its great to get to know a lot of people when you can walk places with them and chat about everything that is going on and experiencing. Life seems to slow down without the cars, and the campus seems so much larger, encompassing everything that you need.

The university is an academic village where students are encouraged to study and think individually and in a group setting. Not quite in the Ivy League, the University of Virginia (UVA) is a "Pubic Ivy" that is ranked extremeley high nationally. Undergraduate students greatly benefit from the competitive nature of each of the individual schools (architecture, engineering, arts/science, nursing) while the faculty and staff come from the best in their respective fields. Their teaching and wisdom gives us students inspiration and example to follow.

I'm interested in a variety of subjects and wanted to enter college with an undecided major. At UVA, students are not required to declare an official major until they begin a third year at the university. Also, in high school I was very active in the music department. At many colleges, students often give up music in order to pursue other academic classes. However, UVA has a relatively new and growing marching band program that I was able to participate in while balancing a full academic curriculum and was even awarded a small scholarship.