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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is the math plain and simple.  VA has more high stat kids than UVA, VT and W&M can admit in any given year.

Other state flagships want to bring in the best students they can, often are much larger than VA universities and don’t have as many highly qualified students in their home state.

Many OOS flagships sweeten the pot with tuition discounts/merit aid so a win/win for both parties.  [/quote]
[b]You write this as if neither the state nor the schools has any control over the number of students they educate or the price they charge. Virginia could have enough seats to educate all their high-performing students in-state if that was something the state valued. [/quote][/b]

You are wrong. The Commonwealth of Virginia funds 41 public institutions of higher learning, which includes the very generous guaranteed transfer program community colleges to its four year institutions. The Commonwealth is currently pushing billions of dollars into growing those institutions like GMU (now the largest R1 University in the Commonwealth wealth) , which can still develop (you didn’t know it has five campuses, did you? One in Korea). It’s also recently opened a UVA campus in Arlington. Name one other state tge size of Virginia that does what Virginia does for its college bound residents. Only CA and Texas are more expansive but they are much larger states. Wisconsin and Michigan just offer the top flagship, not the breadth and variety that Virginia does. [/quote]

WI may not have 41 public institutions, but they have a very strong regional public University of WI system that serves students from the state well.  There are at least 8, including UW-Milwaukee. In my HS class, I was the only one to attend UW-Madison, but the vast majority of other college-bound classmates went to one of the regional universities. They all have a speciality as well.  [/quote]

RIght but OOS only want Madison. And Wisconsin has nothing like William & Mary and no VA Tech. [/quote]

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