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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's not correct.  300+ still apply.  The more recent change is that far fewer are admitted than in previous years.[/quote]

Perhaps, but it seems like many more just prefer OOS destinations these days.  From a Washington Post article from 2013:

"Local universities will also be be the destinations of Thomas Jefferson alumni: about 65 seniors will head to William and Mary next fall, the most in the past five years.  But the number of students heading to the University of Virginia (86) is the lowest since 2009 and those enrolling at Virginia Tech (21) is the lowest since 2010."

For last year, the numbers were:  40 UVA, 19 W&M, 16 VT.   Those are big drops.

The schools that have increased seem to be ones like Michigan (8), Pitt (15), CMU (10), Cornell (10), Purdue (10), Illinois (9), GT (7), Berkeley (6), Michigan (8), MIT (8), Harvard (7)[/quote]
Nothing to see here.  Of course if more TJ kids are rejected from UVA, more will go somewhere else.[/quote]

Yield has gone down.[/quote]
Yield has gone down because UVA has become more selective from the TJ applicant pool.  The better applicants have more options.[/quote]

Perhaps.  Rejecting more of those that want to go there while accepting those that want to go somewhere else will certainly lower yield.

But looking at the pattern for the three top in-state destinations (that account for 90%+ of the in-state students), TJ grads going to those three schools declined from 172 in 2013 to 75 in 2020, a nearly 60% drop.  I think TJ grads have been figuring out they have good options elsewhere.  [/quote]

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