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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 serious running for Ivies or top SLACs.  Many of the kids who are accepted into those schools turn down UVA.[/quote]

W[b]ell, my son will. He certainly has the stats, but there are other schools in the us that offer him more.  [/quote][/b]

Please post back in a year after you've been through the mill.[/quote]

[b]Are you serious?  At my kid's HS, UVA accepts 40-50 every year and only 20-25 go.  UVA is a safety for plenty of kids.[/quote][/b]

That's exactly what I said.  Same 50 or 60 out of a class of 450.  Those are the lucky ones which the school supports and they get the options, although, frankly, i don't know anyone in NOVA who turned down UVA because, financially, it makes so much sense.  Save the money for grad school.  The fact of the matter is that there aren't enough seats for the talented students in NOVA who want to attend UVA, W&M, etc.  UVA has to take from across the state, all states, and 84 countries.  I would like to see the OOS limited to 20% (it's currently 47%) as the UC system is doing.  But that's because I'm in NOVA and know what it takes to get your high school to take your student's application to UVA seriously.[/quote]

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