Did your senior get into UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.

Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.

Why? UVA is low rated in the hard sciences. Good at history, bad at math.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.

Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.

Not OP, but UMd is much better than UVa with engineering and computer science.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been hearing and reading about this since I moved here about 15 years ago. Not just UVa, but also William and Mary. These high-ranking schools are very sought after by Virginia residents, partly because in-state tuition is relatively low.

They have a high number of applications, but only so many spaces to fill, so they need to be very selective. When you are talking about highly selective schools, at some point there is a "lottery" aspect to admissions, in that there are so many more qualified, even highly qualified, applicants than there are spaces available that there is an element of luck to whether any particular applicant ends up being accepted. So, many qualified students end up not being accepted, because there isn't enough space for everyone.

Also, by state law, roughly 30% of UVa acceptees are from out of state because they pay higher tuition than in-state students. Essentially, out-of-state students help to subsidize the cost of education for in-state students.

William and Mary is private....no in state tuition there.

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William & Mary is public.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.

Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.

Not OP, but UMd is much better than UVa with engineering and computer science.

Hardly

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We live in Arlington County, our DD was accepted to UVA but she attended an independent school in DC. She knows quite a few Arlington kids who are going to UVA, though, from Yorktown, HB and W-L. Kids are getting in, but I agree - seems like the school is taking as many OOS and international students as possible to balance the budget.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been hearing and reading about this since I moved here about 15 years ago. Not just UVa, but also William and Mary. These high-ranking schools are very sought after by Virginia residents, partly because in-state tuition is relatively low.

They have a high number of applications, but only so many spaces to fill, so they need to be very selective. When you are talking about highly selective schools, at some point there is a "lottery" aspect to admissions, in that there are so many more qualified, even highly qualified, applicants than there are spaces available that there is an element of luck to whether any particular applicant ends up being accepted. So, many qualified students end up not being accepted, because there isn't enough space for everyone.

Also, by state law, roughly 30% of UVa acceptees are from out of state because they pay higher tuition than in-state students. Essentially, out-of-state students help to subsidize the cost of education for in-state students.

William and Mary is private....no in state tuition there.

where did you hear that?

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back to uva...i imagine that the kids from, say, newport news, are not as highly qualified as the kids from nova, say, fcps. admissions is all about keeping it diverse, not just racially, but also geographically. smart money pupil places their dc into a lower performing fcps hs for the last year in hopes of getting in to uva.

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William and Mary is private....no in state tuition there.

William and Mary just LOOKS like a private school. It is considered a "public ivy".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.

Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.

Not if he's sure he'll do comp sci or engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been hearing and reading about this since I moved here about 15 years ago. Not just UVa, but also William and Mary. These high-ranking schools are very sought after by Virginia residents, partly because in-state tuition is relatively low.

They have a high number of applications, but only so many spaces to fill, so they need to be very selective. When you are talking about highly selective schools, at some point there is a "lottery" aspect to admissions, in that there are so many more qualified, even highly qualified, applicants than there are spaces available that there is an element of luck to whether any particular applicant ends up being accepted. So, many qualified students end up not being accepted, because there isn't enough space for everyone.

Also, by state law, roughly 30% of UVa acceptees are from out of state because they pay higher tuition than in-state students. Essentially, out-of-state students help to subsidize the cost of education for in-state students.

William and Mary is private....no in state tuition there.

PP, William & Mary is a VA state public and has been since it was re-established after the Civil War. William & Mary's Board of Visitors is a group of state-appointees. William & Mary's in-state tuition is less than 1/2 its out-of-state tuition. And several other VA publics (including VCU, CNU, and ODU) were originally branch campuses of William & Mary. See -- http://www.wm.edu/about/index.php

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.

Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.

I am in IT and a computer science degree from Maryland is one of the top degrees you can get anywhere.

Also true for Math and engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been hearing and reading about this since I moved here about 15 years ago. Not just UVa, but also William and Mary. These high-ranking schools are very sought after by Virginia residents, partly because in-state tuition is relatively low.

They have a high number of applications, but only so many spaces to fill, so they need to be very selective. When you are talking about highly selective schools, at some point there is a "lottery" aspect to admissions, in that there are so many more qualified, even highly qualified, applicants than there are spaces available that there is an element of luck to whether any particular applicant ends up being accepted. So, many qualified students end up not being accepted, because there isn't enough space for everyone.

Also, by state law, roughly 30% of UVa acceptees are from out of state because they pay higher tuition than in-state students. Essentially, out-of-state students help to subsidize the cost of education for in-state students.

William and Mary is private....no in state tuition there.

Funny, that's not what they said on the tour. Even out of state tuition, while quite a bit higher than in state tuition, is lower than comparable private colleges. Maybe you are thinking of Washington & Lee??

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Anonymous wrote:I've been hearing and reading about this since I moved here about 15 years ago. Not just UVa, but also William and Mary. These high-ranking schools are very sought after by Virginia residents, partly because in-state tuition is relatively low.

They have a high number of applications, but only so many spaces to fill, so they need to be very selective. When you are talking about highly selective schools, at some point there is a "lottery" aspect to admissions, in that there are so many more qualified, even highly qualified, applicants than there are spaces available that there is an element of luck to whether any particular applicant ends up being accepted. So, many qualified students end up not being accepted, because there isn't enough space for everyone.

Also, by state law, roughly 30% of UVa acceptees are from out of state because they pay higher tuition than in-state students. Essentially, out-of-state students help to subsidize the cost of education for in-state students.

William and Mary is private....no in state tuition there.

http://www.wm.edu/about/index.php

We're different, and we like it that way.
William & Mary is unlike any other university in America.

We’re the second oldest college in the nation, but also a cutting-edge research university. We’re highly selective, but also public, offering a world-class education without the sticker shock.

Our students are not only some of the smartest in the world, but passionate about serving others and serious about having fun. Our professors are teachers, scholars and research mentors, the cornerstone of a thriving intellectual community that produces experienced, engaged, successful graduates.

We’re a “Public Ivy”—one of only eight in the nation. That means we offer a superior education that’s accessible to everyone. We love our hometown of Williamsburg and the amazing Commonwealth of Virginia and we’re proud to be one of the reasons for their economic success.

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Also, the calibre of students whose stats put them in the ballpark for UVa are also competitive for WandM so, even though the school cultures are very different, a lot of Virginia kids apply to both. Conversations among parents of high schoolers about the difficulty of getting into the top Virginia publics generally involve both these schools.