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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]9:05 poster again.  I think a more accurate statement is that it is more difficult to be in the top 10% of your class in NOVA compared to the rest of the state rather than  "far fewer NOVA kids are accepted when compared to the rest of the state."[/quote]

y[b]es and good luck if you go to TJ, where the top 10% use UVA as a safety. [/b]We attended an admissions meeting where they said from out of state you better be wonderful.[/quote]

I don't think this is no longer true.  33 students from TJ are in the entering class at UVA this year.  Most of their parents are asian-Americans who moved into Fairfax Public Schools solely to get them into the gifted programs then into TJ.  They are very smart and cost-conscious  [b]When a family is looking at $65,000 to $72,000 a year in after tax dollars [/b](meaning in my tax bracket i have to make $130k to $150K for one child's tuition a year) versus $12,000 a year (room and board extra at UVA), they think twice, especially 1) if there are siblings; 2) the kid may go on to graduate school (which most do); and 3) UVA just got named no. 1 public in the USA by Business Insider, bypassing UCLA, Berkeley and Michigan.  Also over half our nation's students are taking more than 5 or 6 years to graduate, especially if they do overseas terms, so multiply that out even further.  When parents are looking at an investment that equates to the price of a house (not the situation when most of us applied to college) for one child, they are much more apt to encourage their children to go to an xlnt in-state public and later go Ivy for graduate work, which is what I did.  No one ever asks about where I went to college, but they do care about where I went to law school.  Smart parents are putting their money there - graduate level - where it really counts.  Also some fields like engineering offer extraordinary financial packages when you hit the Masters and Ph.D levels.[/quote]

What school costs $72k?? [/quote]

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