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Congrats!  The ECs are amazing![/quote]

Thanks- all him.  Frankly, I kept hoping he'd get a B or two and take some pressure off himself, they pressure each other and social media is constant and unrealistic.
We stayed out of it except for supporting his decision not to ED despite pressure from school college counseling and his choice to apply to more reaches than she recommended.  Turns out he was right, he had better outcomes in what the school deemed "far reaches" than the ones they had as targets (Tufts, Tulane, CMU)   [/quote]

In-state for UVA?[/quote]

In state UVA would be hard to pass up[/quote]

Not really. It’s passed up all the time for Ivies, T10s and top SLACs. UVA is a big public. It’s not the same. A good value, yes. [/quote]

For Harvard, Princeton or Yale...Yes.  Not the others for me.  I'm not from Virginia and no dog in the game, but I couldn't justify the cost difference.  That's just me.   [/quote]

If you were in Virginia and had experienced one child at UVA, another at (top5LAC) and another at (ivy in the T10) then you would not question it at all. Cousins have one at a "lower-3" ivy and one at UVA, good family friend has one at UVA and one at WashU. [b]It is night and day between UVA and most T20 privates/very top LACs[/b].[/quote]

I suppose. For me it would just depend on the ranking of the major at that particular school compared to the others.  I personally wouldn't get caught up in all the other stuff regardless of Ivy, ACC or BIG 10 or whatever.[/quote]

In what way that would justify the cost difference if in-state?  Just curious.[/quote]
Everything is competitive and gate kept at UVA. Getting into a lab is a slog, clubs are more cutthroat than ivy/top privates, classes are huge for most of the first two years thus it is harder to get to know professors. Even going abroad is competitive. The privates have huge endowments and they spend them on undergrads: funding for research, summer programs, cheap or usually free on campus activities. There is less of a big party/big sports vibe on weekends. The law/med matriculation lists are more impressive at the privates and the grades are inflated over UVA which helps. 
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I definately get it.  UVA is not a small school.  It's good, but not a 5-7K school.  My kid turned down our T50 instate flagship for a ~40 smaller school.  (so a $60-70K/year difference).  Why?  Because our state flagship has 30K+ undergrads, you are not guaranteed your major (in with engineering, but no guarantee you will get the one you want) and you constantly fight for classes.  Oh and CS as a minor or major is not an option unless you are direct admit to it (and you cannot apply to both CS and engineering, it's one or the other).  So my kid focused on private schools with 5-8K undergrads where you get to know your profs and you can major in anything, provided you do well in the first 2-3 courses in sequence.  Their professors know them, they have been TAing each semester since end of Sophomore year, and doing research since sophomore year.  Meaningful research.  So while it's difficult to find internships, they are doing research year round, getting paid in the summer and will have excellent meaningful recommendations for graduate school (should jobs not be avaialbe next spring, which is likely).

That is what you get from smaller schools and non-state U.  
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