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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really ridiculous when people complain about paying taxes that support the school.  UVA gets approximately $1000/year/in state student from VA.  For that they give a tuition reduction of $25,000 to each of those kids.  Seems like a really crappy deal for the institution and yet some moron sitting in NOVA complains about paying taxes.  UVA provides a great service to the state of VA and should be appreciated not criticized.  The funds that were the basis of the article and the recent complaining did not come from tuition, fees, or operations.  They were privately raised and invested.  There should not have been any mandate to co-mingle with operations nor should they be ridiculed for being successful for investing those. Bravo to them for being smart investors.  They could build some really interesting things with that money.

There are many other state universities in Virginia that receive a much larger percentage of state support, yet never receive the criticism that UVA and others do.  Instead of complaining about UVA tuition being too high there are other options at many price points with greater state subsidies.  If you don't like the way they run their business please pick somewhere else.  But please don't complain that you are providing this mountain of tax revenue.  I am sure that UVA would gladly give it all back for freedom to run their university as they see fit free from government harassment and self-important taxpayers.[/quote]

Obviously you're a UVA alum or parent.  Regardless, most people on this thread aren't complaining about the price of UVA's tuition, [b]but rather the fact that far fewer NOVA kids are accepted when compared to the rest of the state and out-of-state students[/b].  And, in fact, the tax revenue coming from NOVA could [i]absolutely[/i] be classified as a[b] "mountain."[/b]  Our taxes subsidize the rest of the state - and you know it.

If anyone sounds "self-important" here, it would be you.[/quote]

+1000!  We've been paying into that mtn. for 25 years.  But there was no point in event suggesting that McLean High support my kid for UVA because I knew they wouldn't.  They push only the best and brightest of their huge classes into UVA and the Ivies.  Wish it weren't so, but UVA only takes a certain number from Langley and McLean, as the numbers demonstrate.  The college counselor isn't going to support or get good letters of recommendation for your A- struggling kid with high test scores but no ECs because your kid spends all his time either in class, on the bus, or doing homework.[/quote]

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