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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am upset that UVA makes it so competitive for NoVA kids. They should admit based off merit. It is insane that high GPA, high test score kids get rejected, but then weaker profiles from other parts of the state get in.[/quote]

That’s a myth.  More than 1/2 of the in state students are from NOVA.  [/quote]

+1.

I went to UVa and found it was really NoVA HS v2.0.  More than half the students in my dorm building were from Fairfax County, Arlington, or Alexandria.  If one added in PW, Loudoun, it would be even more.  And that still is not counting the numerous students from Montgomery County or NW DC.

People hear flagship public and think large.  For a flagship public, UVa is pretty small by undergrad student numbers, despite having grown repeatedly since the first big expansion in roughly 1969-1970…. I think VT might have roughly double the number of undergrad students as UVa at this point.  [/quote]

Yes, this is confirmed by SCHEV figures, https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=Enrollment.E02_Report

UVA went from 12,614 undergraduates in 1992-93 to 17,835 undergraduates in 2025-26, a 41% increase over 30+ years

VT went from to 18,860 undergraduates in 1992-93 to 31,536 undergraduates in 2025-26, a 67% increase over 30+ years

The commonwealth's population went from 	6,187,358 in 1990 to about 8,800,000 in 2024, a 42% increase over 34 years, according to Google.

For comparison, overall enrollment at public universities in the commonwealth went from 139,278 in 1992-93 to 179,249 in 2025-26, a 29% increase over 30+ years.

So you could say that UVA grew proportionally with the growth in the commonwealth's population, and even exceeded growth for overall undergrad enrollment in commonwealth public universities.

However, NOVA's population went from 1,466,350 in 1990 to an estimated  2,556,143 in 2023, a 71% increase of 33 years according to Google.

Hence when NOVA folks complain about inaccessibility to UVA, they have a point because of the differential rates of growth.  The powers that be want that relative excess of NOVA students to go to VT, GMU (which almost tripled in size) and JMU (which more than doubled); by comparison, the growth rate at UVA, W&M, and VCU roughly match the overall growth rate in the commonwealth's population but did not match NOVA population growth.

In other words, the available supply of seats available at W&M and UVA to NOVA students is becoming smaller relative to the NOVA population, and the commonwealth's reaction is to tell those students to go to VT, GMU and JMU. That's not what NOVA parents want to hear, and so it leads to the wailing and lamentations.[/quote]

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