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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, it can be hard from Northern Virginia schools. The colleges only want so many kids from a single high school or area. For example, about 400/500 apply to UVA from TJ. Most of them would do really well at UVA and would love to attend. But UVA won’t take 400 kids from one high school. (They need a more diverse class; this makes sense.) You could name a different NoVa high school and it would be JMU, perhaps, or Virginia Tech, or another good state school. This is true to some degree at most NoVa schools. It creates a strange dynamic where many, many students don’t get a spot at their top choice but hopefully find a spot at some other good school — you really have to branch out and try to find a fit that isn’t the same school all your classmates are hoping to attend. In rural areas, the competition for spots is very different— smaller graduating class, not all applying to same colleges. The metro areas, everywhere, must have some version of this competition. It’s a shame but also, in a sad way, logical. [/quote]

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