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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure where your OOS numbers are coming from, but from UVA's website:

68% Virginian 
32% Non-Virginian

Estimated Tuition

$11,892
2016-17 1st?Year Students, In?State, College of Arts & Sciences

$40,506
2016-17 1st?Year Students, Out?of?State, College of Arts & Sciences
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The problem with state schools is that the in-state students are going to [b]be fairly average[/b].  Even a good school like[b] UVA is accepting over 40% of in-state applicants.....not exactly the best and brightest.[/quote][/b]

I get so tired of people quoting this statistic as a way to argue that the kids getting into UVA are not that bright. Ninety-four percent of them are in the top ten percent of their graduating class - if they aren't the state's best and brightest, I don't know who is.

In my own personal experience of having 3 DCs from NOVA in top private and top public HSs apply to colleges over the past 4 years, I can unequivocally state that the students I know who were admitted to UVA were exactly the best and brighest.  These same students were admitted to all of the Ivies, Duke, Stanford, MIT, top 10 SLACs, etc.  Some chose UVA, some chose one of these other schools for a variety of reasons, including financial.  If you think that is fairly average you're nuts.[/quote]

Yes, the ~10 students from my kid's school who got into Ivies (or equivalent) also got into UVA.  An additional 30-40 kids who couldn't sniff the Ivies also got into UVA.  Those are the kids that will be attending.[/quote]

If they could sniff the Ivies, they'd find our shit still smells the same.

Seriously, the applicants to UVA are a self-selected group to begin with, and the kids who get in are very bright.  Most of them couldn't get into multiple Ivies, but some could, and there is nothing so unique about the Ivies in any event to warrant the level of condescension in your post.

- double Ivy grad[/quote]

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