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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Enrollment is far from "proportional." It is much more difficult to be admitted from NoVa, higher grades/ranks/SATs are required of NoVa applicants, the average NoVa student receives less in non-loan aid than the average student from the red areas, and the differences have become extreme -- students from some western/southern VA counties are admitted with what amount to essentially remedial-level SAT scores, while NoVa students have to be well within the top 10% even to make the first, non-dispositive pass. UVA and W&M have become nothing but the blue subsidizing the red. [/quote]

Jeez, bitter much?  This happens at flagship state schools all over the country...when I lived in Austin, parents would talk about how they were not sure they wanted to send their kid to the really excellent magnet program for high school because it would lessen their changes of getting into UT in the top 10%.  When I lived in the Chicago area, people were bitching about how hard it was to get into the University of Illinois coming from the wealthy suburbs and how all the farm kids got in with lower grades, etc.  The reason why people get in with lower SATs and grades is because Northern Virginia has more wealth on average, better schools, and more resources.  And if you are talking about the non-loan aid, it seems pretty obvious that poorer families would get more non-loan aid.  Since the school is there to service the entire state...not just the wealthiest and most educated portion of the state, they need to level the playing field.  Obviously someone coming from Langley or Thomas Jefferson has more preparation and resources put into their education than some more county in western and southern Virginia.[/quote]

Not at all.  People in NoVa also subsidize the public schools in south/west VA.  In fact, NoVa pays the plurality of all of the taxes for all of VA, but NoVa is deprived of applicant-proportional access to UVA and W&M.  
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