Virginia parents do not have many good in-state options
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Plus VTAG, which can help offset costs for Virginia students that attend a private in-state college. We have real decent options here for a wide range of students and a variety of schools for different areas of study. |
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It seems that Virginia has public schools at every level. there are plenty of options for straight A students, B students, and everyone else that wants an in state affordable school. I think this is what makes Virginia so great, compared to Maryland,. A top student in Maryland can get into more selective schools thanMD’s flagship public, so may view attending their “best” in-state option as “settling”; Whereas, that same student would view the 2-3 “best” VA options more favorably. A lot of families don’t want their instate public for whatever reason, but not knowing who your kid will be or what your family would want at high school graduation, living in Virginia, gives you a lot more flexibility . |
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PP, NOVA parent. CP is not much to look at, but my freshman at UMD, with the activities on campus and the places close by on Balt Ave hasn't seem to notice. He's taking a $7 Amtrak ride to Baltimore to see a concert in a couple months. Nice to see him developing his "independence". |
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Liberty is not college it’s STD land or less than HS education but not college |
Anonymous
Seriously! We have one huge, not great for all choice and a bunch of substandard choices...unless you want to be an engineer. Then you can go to UMASS Lowell. But you have to live in Lowell. |
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How do you know? |
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I think my only real complaint about Virginia schools, is that UVA should probably be twice its current size.
Otherwise, the Virginia public college system is one of the top-5 in the country. |
Anonymous
| Lol. Literally. I mean, it isn't California but it is flat out ridiculous to say Virginia does not have good in-state options. |
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Honestly, the only people who are unhappy about Virginia's in-state options are the few percent who are on the margins of getting into UVA. My kids aren't going to be applying to UVA, but they'll have at least a half dozen other schools to choose from in Virginia. All at a very reasonable cost, too. |
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By GPA and SAT scores I determine that my former state’s flagship school had a student body as strong as GMU. So GMU should be seen as a good alternative with strong students. And that’s before looking at W&M, VTech and UVA. My former state had NO equivalent college to these Virginia schools.
Seriously, stop the whine. Virginia has strong, beautiful college options. |
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PP...yep that's us! |
Anonymous
I feel you. The Virginia legislature should follow the lead of other states, and limit OOS at UVA to 10% of the student body, and fund an increase in enrollment by at least 50%. |
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| VA parents with subpar kids REALLY need to stop complaining about UVA admissions. If they doubled the size of the school or limited OOS enrollment so your kids could get in it wouldn’t be the same school AT ALL. There are plenty of other perfectly fine in state options. Leave the elite to the elite. |
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100%. My 3.96/4.52, 1560, NMSF would have been a huge drag on the institution. |
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It's interesting that OP's title say
"Virginia PARENTS don't have good options..." Freudian slip, OP? Sounds like YOU have an issue with your student's prospects. It's really your student's choice, not? I wonder if your student is as disappointed with his/her option as you are. I suspect this is a parent who is frustrated by the reality of where their kid can and can't get in. And just an aside, OP... I DO get it. I wish there was a traditional college big-state U that pretty much admitted everyone with a 3.0 and above. That's the missing piece in VA. We have VT and UVA -- but they have become so selective that even a 4.0 student cannot expect to be admitted to VT. And forget about UVA. I even went to UVA and it offends me a little that they want my alumni dollars, but no way they will admit my 4.0+ kid. So, I think I know what you are unhappy about. But, sometimes parents are more unhappy about status than kids are. My kid is totally FINE with GMU... and that's where he plans to go. We've encouraged him to think about VT and out of state. But, he's says no. So, it's not for me to dis GMU. Let your kid find his/her way. There are options in VA, even if they aren't what we parents might have had in college. |