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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all are so lucky to live in VA. We are considering paying $70-$80k to send our kid to one of your schools…if they are lucky enough to even be admitted. [/quote]

Maybe Virginia need to shrink the out of state student body to make more spots for taxpayer in state kids.[/quote]

Taxes barely contribute to W&M and UVA's budgets. At that point they would be better off going private, out of state students help maintain their budgets. [/quote]

Yup---be careful what you wish for.  Those OOS students help keep In-state tuition and costs lower
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i never really understand this.

my kid got into university of Florida (gigantic public state school) and they sand soooo many Floridians to school for FREE via bright scholars. Bright Futures is Merit based as well. 92% of floridians get Bright future scholars awards (obviously not all full tuition) UF caps OOS and international combined at 15%. Their OOS tuition is the lowest in the nation.  How does Florida keep public schools for floridians and manage NOT TO price gouge anyone?

People like to knock on Florida, but damn at least their students can get an educations without being buried in debt. [/quote]

State appropriations. Come on, how do people not understand this. It come up time and again here. [/quote]

This.  It literally is math.  The Commonwealth does not spend a lot of taxpayer dollars on public universities compared with many other states.  That means tuition is higher. It also means more pressure on universities to have full-pay OOS students. As the graph PP posted shows, Virginia is below the US average in spending on public universities.

The agreement of the Commonwealth with these 3 publics to have roughly 2/3rds in-state ugrad students is at least 50 years old, so it is not a new development.  Everyone except OP, including the elected legislature, is fine with the current arrangement.  If someone wants some different outcome, the right first step is to talk with one’s elected representatives about what one wants.  DCUM cannot change anything.[/quote]

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