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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This proposal makes no sense. There are already less selective public universities that are a good fit for a variety of kids. Just say what you really mean: you want your child to be admitted to a selective state university. If the schools do what you suggest, which is to accept a broader range of kids, what do you think will happen? The school will become less selective and it's not going to be impressive to anyone that your kid got in, so you're not going to be satisfied with that. [/quote]

+1. An often overlooked point
Michigan does a much better job educating the top students in its state.  Too bad the flagship of a state the size of VA can’t. [/quote]

Have you been to UVA? Have a kid there? Michigan has just under 34K undergraduates to UVA's 17K. UVA is bursting at the gills and the city can't handle it either. Where would they build? They would have to displace city blocks (a large minority population by the way) east of Main between 14th to 10th. People that say it should grow to the size of schools like Michigan, UCLA, and Tech are delusional.[/quote]l

[b]That doesn’t change the fact that UVA doesn’t serve its population very well. [/b]If you can’t grow, you can certainly adjust the percentage of instate students upward. 
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You and the others who say UVA is not growing are wrong. [b]Please google University of Virginia Foundation. Seven professionals spend their days purchasing billions of dollars of real estate for future use of the school,[/b] like the new data center; the Fontaine development (med school); the new children's hospital, and the list goes on and on. https://www.uvafoundation.com/real-estate  Whike UVA can't expand contiguously, it is certainly doing so nearby. Most of Ivy road is now owned by UVA. Some in the C'ville community are not happy with this expansion. [/quote]

+1. An often overlooked point.[/quote]

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