Virginia parents do not have many good in-state options

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is very clear about the curriculum that you should take. They like to see rigor across all core subjects and not having any AP English when most applicants take both AP lang and AP lit is a mistake.

Yes, we got it Dr. Demento.

NP. don't know why you are so insulting but this is a fact. And four years of the same language in high school. That's why this forum exists - to share info like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is very clear about the curriculum that you should take. They like to see rigor across all core subjects and not having any AP English when most applicants take both AP lang and AP lit is a mistake.

Yes, we got it Dr. Demento.

NP. don't know why you are so insulting but this is a fact. And four years of the same language in high school. That's why this forum exists - to share info like this.

Yes. We know. And water is wet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is very clear about the curriculum that you should take. They like to see rigor across all core subjects and not having any AP English when most applicants take both AP lang and AP lit is a mistake.

Yes, we got it Dr. Demento.

NP. don't know why you are so insulting but this is a fact. And four years of the same language in high school. That's why this forum exists - to share info like this.

Yes. We know. And water is wet.

Dr. Demento is 82. How old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is very clear about the curriculum that you should take. They like to see rigor across all core subjects and not having any AP English when most applicants take both AP lang and AP lit is a mistake.

Yes, we got it Dr. Demento.

Dr. demento went to Reed, which is not in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland parents often complain about the lack of instate public options other than UMCP.

Guess what, Virginia is not that much better in my opinion.

Yes, Virginia has UVa, W&M and VT.

But Virginia is more populous than Maryland and W&M undergraduate enrollment is tiny. In addition, more Maryland parents are willing to send their kids to private colleges like many other parents in Northern states.

VT limits the number of in-state admission to get more OOS kids. So what if your kids don’t get in UVa, VT or W&M? That’s the big issue for many parents.

JMU is considered as the next best option. And I do think it’s a fine school and its business program is a solid choice. But what if your kids want to major in engineering or hard scinece? JMU doesn’t even have a proper engineering school (college of integrated science and engineering is not a real engineering school in my opinion).

GMU offers decent engineering and CS programs but not everyone in Northern Virginia wants to go to a school in Fairfax.

Too many good and ambitious Virginia kids don’t get in UVa, W&M, and VT. I think this is why there have been increased interest in some of OOS public school (pitt, IU, UDel, UConn, Tenn, Alabama, etc. ) among Virginia parents.

OP, you must be new to the college world. Most OOS programs are now $70-$80k a year. I don't know anyone in our cohort who applied seriously OOS. And those that apply to Pitt do so, like we did, simply for the benefit of rolling admissions in September/October. It's good to enter the senior year with one acceptance in the bag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is very clear about the curriculum that you should take. They like to see rigor across all core subjects and not having any AP English when most applicants take both AP lang and AP lit is a mistake.

Yes, we got it Dr. Demento.

NP. don't know why you are so insulting but this is a fact. And four years of the same language in high school. That's why this forum exists - to share info like this.

Yes. We know. And water is wet.

Dr. Demento is 82. How old are you?

50

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland parents often complain about the lack of instate public options other than UMCP.

Guess what, Virginia is not that much better in my opinion.

Yes, Virginia has UVa, W&M and VT.

But Virginia is more populous than Maryland and W&M undergraduate enrollment is tiny. In addition, more Maryland parents are willing to send their kids to private colleges like many other parents in Northern states.

VT limits the number of in-state admission to get more OOS kids. So what if your kids don’t get in UVa, VT or W&M? That’s the big issue for many parents.

JMU is considered as the next best option. And I do think it’s a fine school and its business program is a solid choice. But what if your kids want to major in engineering or hard scinece? JMU doesn’t even have a proper engineering school (college of integrated science and engineering is not a real engineering school in my opinion).

GMU offers decent engineering and CS programs but not everyone in Northern Virginia wants to go to a school in Fairfax.

Too many good and ambitious Virginia kids don’t get in UVa, W&M, and VT. I think this is why there have been increased interest in some of OOS public school (pitt, IU, UDel, UConn, Tenn, Alabama, etc. ) among Virginia parents.

OP, you must be new to the college world. Most OOS programs are now $70-$80k a year. I don't know anyone in our cohort who applied seriously OOS. And those that apply to Pitt do so, like we did, simply for the benefit of rolling admissions in September/October. It's good to enter the senior year with one acceptance in the bag.

I was going to add in that I know one family that applied to Michigan. DS did not get into UVA so moved into the dorm at Michigan and then called the call from UVA and moved back. I went and checked and was startled. U of Miichigan is now $76K a year! No wonder their kid moved back to Virginia! holy moley!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is very clear about the curriculum that you should take. They like to see rigor across all core subjects and not having any AP English when most applicants take both AP lang and AP lit is a mistake.

Yes, we got it Dr. Demento.

Dr. demento went to Reed, which is not in Virginia.

Very liberal. Too expensive. not worth it. Employers avoid it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
But Virginia is more populous than Maryland and W&M undergraduate enrollment is tiny. In addition, more Maryland parents are willing to send their kids to private colleges like many other parents in Northern states.

I was willing to give you the benefit of your opinion until you used this as a "data point". You have no idea where MD parents, on the whole, are willing to send their kids. I live in NoVa, if I went off just the people around me, I'd posit that more VA parents are willing to send their kids to private high school and those kids can go to college anywhere they are able to get into. It's ridiculous.

Gee.

You are the one who is ridiculous. Parents in Northeast and MD sends more kids to private than parents in South including Virginia.

See the below link (page 43). Marlyand is a smaller state but has more private students than Virginia.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6213b2n5

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
But Virginia is more populous than Maryland and W&M undergraduate enrollment is tiny. In addition, more Maryland parents are willing to send their kids to private colleges like many other parents in Northern states.

I was willing to give you the benefit of your opinion until you used this as a "data point". You have no idea where MD parents, on the whole, are willing to send their kids. I live in NoVa, if I went off just the people around me, I'd posit that more VA parents are willing to send their kids to private high school and those kids can go to college anywhere they are able to get into. It's ridiculous.

Gee.

You are the one who is ridiculous. Parents in Northeast and MD sends more kids to private than parents in South including Virginia.

See the below link (page 43). Marlyand is a smaller state but has more private students than Virginia.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6213b2n5

oh honey. Virginians drive over the American Legion bridge for the Maryland privates. I did it for 16 friggin' years for four privates in Maryland. Buses line up in McLean to take the Virginians to Maryland for private school. It has more because it was developed sooner. Nova was until recently more rural.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
But Virginia is more populous than Maryland and W&M undergraduate enrollment is tiny. In addition, more Maryland parents are willing to send their kids to private colleges like many other parents in Northern states.

I was willing to give you the benefit of your opinion until you used this as a "data point". You have no idea where MD parents, on the whole, are willing to send their kids. I live in NoVa, if I went off just the people around me, I'd posit that more VA parents are willing to send their kids to private high school and those kids can go to college anywhere they are able to get into. It's ridiculous.

Gee.

You are the one who is ridiculous. Parents in Northeast and MD sends more kids to private than parents in South including Virginia.

See the below link (page 43). Marlyand is a smaller state but has more private students than Virginia.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6213b2n5

oh honey. Virginians drive over the American Legion bridge for the Maryland privates. I did it for 16 friggin' years for four privates in Maryland. Buses line up in McLean to take the Virginians to Maryland for private school. It has more because it was developed sooner. Nova was until recently more rural.

DC students also go to private in Maryland

[Anonymous]

I count about 39 public colleges or universities here (including community colleges) here. If you can't make that work (especially with the UVA guaranteed transfer agreement) then there is something wrong with you. We are blessed to have so many options in Virginia, especially with the obscene costs of OOS and privates (some at a whopping $93K a year now). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Virginia

[Anonymous]

Lol at the wording of this post, poor poor parents!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I count about 39 public colleges or universities here (including community colleges) here. If you can't make that work (especially with the UVA guaranteed transfer agreement) then there is something wrong with you. We are blessed to have so many options in Virginia, especially with the obscene costs of OOS and privates (some at a whopping $93K a year now). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Virginia

Something wrong with me (us)!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I count about 39 public colleges or universities here (including community colleges) here. If you can't make that work (especially with the UVA guaranteed transfer agreement) then there is something wrong with you. We are blessed to have so many options in Virginia, especially with the obscene costs of OOS and privates (some at a whopping $93K a year now). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Virginia

Something wrong with me (us)!

OK!! Go spend $78K a year!