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Most of the TJ students attending UVA are average or below average students except for those students getting ton of merit aid or going for the in-state tuition. UVA is still considered a safety at TJ. TJ kids would not brag about getting into UVA. Average or below average student is not doing fine.[/quote]

Beyond the 25 to 30 full tuition Jefferson Scholarships awarded by an independent UVA alumni group throughout the entire country, with no more than one awarded per high school, there are NO merit scholarships awarded by UVA.  ZERO.  Like the Ivies, all aid awarded by UVA is based on financial need.

Like every other high school in the state, many top TJ students choose to attend UVA over other more highly ranked private schools because of the in state tuition.  Maybe not Harvard, Yale, or Stanford, but routinely Duke, Penn, or Cornell.  It simply isn't the case that "most" TJ students attending UVA are "average or below average."  It's clearly more accurate to say that, compared to the neighborhood public high schools, relatively few of the very top TJ graduates attend UVA.

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My DS choose to go to UVA because he was offered a full tuition merit scholarship (and he liked UVA a lot) It was not a Jefferson Scholarship, the offer came as a nice surprise and after considering it and weighing other offers, including Cornell and others, he chose UVA Engineering, no regrets whatsoever.  So yes, going in-State does not mean one was not good enough for private elites. No doubt the TJ was an amazing opportunity for him, UVA was also terrific.  For us, we would not have gotten need aid at private elites but also, we could not afford them, so they were not a reasonable option.

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