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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm not sure that they are going to UVA at a maximum rate. How many VA resident kids attend Duke, Emory, Davidson, Vanderbilt, UNC, etc. Privates in the 10-40 range. Many of them have ACT 34+ and are in the donut hole. There is very limited merit aid at this schools. In the future their options are scaling down to the privates ranked 50+ looking for merit, or instate. This is not an argument against W&M, it would help both. As well as UMD and other highly regarded state flagships.[/quote]

I would suggest that the numbers of such kids is very small.  Remember at least from FFX only 2700 kids are even applying to UVA, 1700 to W&M.  And many of these are the same kids. Some of these will also apply to the schools you mention.  An ACT of 34+ is in the 99th percentile.  Do you suppose that there are great numbers of such kids?  And those who aim at the likes of Duke and who are admitted will continue to go unless it is financially prohibitive, which it is for some number of donut hole families.

No doubt Duke, for example, is aware of this and will continue to offer generous financial aid.  Perhaps Harvard will be the model, where their aid makes the costs affordable for all but those families with very high incomes and/or significant assets:  a tiny fraction of American households.

In this fierce competition what does UVA bring to the table other than affordable tuition for in state donut hole families?  is that enough to continue to drive selectivity upward?  I don't think so.  [/quote]

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