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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][QUOTE] It can only [list]take so many student (this year @676) from No. VA. 76 of those alone (mostly Asian Americans) come from T.J.[/QUOTE]You're [/list][b]confusing people who go to UVA with people who were accepted. For those 676 who go to UVA, there are probably about 600 more who were accepted and declined went to other schools.[/quote][/b]

I don't' think I'm confusing anything.  Scroll down to Enrolled by county. 670 from FCPS, 200 Loudon, etc., down to zero or one from the outlying west and southern counties. http://digital.uvamagazine.org/articles/2020-insight/.  I don't know anyone who has turned down UVA for another school except for one truly exceptional student who received both the Jefferson Scholar offer and Princeton.  He chose Princeton full freight over the Jefferson (free ride).[/quote]

You must be joking.  UVA is a safety school for those in Cs.  [b]Many of the kiserious running for Ivies or top SLAds who are accepted into those schools turn down UVA[/b].

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The only applicants in that category who seriously think they are going to get into HYP with 40,000+ applicants and a 6.2% acceptance rate are URMs (Nigerian Americans are hot this year), a few extraordinary athletes, some first-generations, and a host of international kids with extraordinary test scores.  Even legacies have only a 10-30% chance of getting in and that's only if mom and dad gave $500K to 1.5 million. No one who has gone through this process "kiserious [sic] runs for Ivies".  It's a lottery.  You throw out 10 to 15 applications and hope your application catches the eyes of one of the 50 readers hired by the admissions office.  And if your child has the choice between an Ivy and UVA, then the family has to sit down and decide "can we really pay $72,000 in after-tax dollars a year versus $26,000 for four or five years".  Not many families can do that anymore, hence the dramatic increase of applicants to UVA and other state schools.  The UC system just announced it may move to limit OOS to only 20% nationally and internationally in order to protect the Californians who have paid into the system. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-limit-nonresident-students-20170306-story.html.   UVA is still at roughly 55 to 60% in-state/40% OOS and international. That may change as more and more Virginians get angry that their kids can't get into VA schools.  Several state legislators have introduced bills that would increase the no. of UVA in-state seats.[/quote]

For a kid in the top 5% of the class in state, UVA is a safety.  Plenty will choose other schools over UVA (not HYPSM) without paying $72k. And some will pay $72k because they can.[/quote]

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