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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools got to expensive.

Kids that would have gone to Georgetown or Williams or an Ivy don’t want to spend $85-99k/year so more and more are going in-state instead.  Very few NoVA residents will qualify for financial aid anywhere since HHI are some of the highest in the nation and COL isn’t a factor in aid.

UVA is now #24 and WM provides the size and education of those $85k Slacs.

Got it?[/quote]

Agree with this.   I went to Cornell waaay back in the day and my parents were able to pay the tuition.  But it’s stupid-expensive now and I don’t even see it as an option for my kids.  I’m hoping they’ll get into one of the VA schools, but we’ll see how that plays out when the time comes.  [/quote]

Nowadays, only Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Yale are worth the ridiculous fees they charge. [/quote]

This. We told our DC it’s only Harvard, Yale, Stanford that we would be willing to go all in for. Otherwise, in state is it. [/quote]

My kid and several other high stat kids we know - all boys - were essentially shut out of the Virginia universities that should have been matches based on stats (above 4.0, upper 1400s to low 1500s, strong extracurriculars and most rigorous course loads).  Girls with lower stats were accepted to the same schools, as well as kids that matched DEI criteria.

If you have a son that does not check a box, you absolutely cannot count on acceptance in state, even if your kid has done everything right and has very high stats that should result in acceptance to qt least one of the top 3-4 Virginia universities.

Something is very broken with the Virginia university acceptance process.[/quote]

We noticed the same issue in recent graduating classes (different years). I realize most colleges are now 60/40 (women/men), but there seems something amiss - especially with regard to STEM.  The schools are overcompensating for something. [/quote]

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