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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.[/quote]

Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?[/quote]

? There are lots of good public universities in Virginia, all of which except W&M are cheaper.  They'll go to University of Mary Washington, or Radford or CNU or JMU or GMU, or VCU, etc.[/quote]

This is true.  Virginia's public universities compare favorably with most public universities around here (Maryland's non-flagship schools leave much to be desired).  JMU, VCU and GMU also compare favorably to the directional schools in most states.

We in NOVA are being forced to accept UVA, VT and W&M become inaccessible to most of our kids.  It is like UCLA and UCB in California; those are also quite hard to get into, but the other UC schools (SB, for example) have good reputations, but not as well known as UCB and UCLA.

Of course, this begs the question of why VA has become like CA.  Demographics, population growth, the admissions priorities of UVA/VT/W&M all come into play.

The most difficult part of this transition is having VT go from 70% acceptance to more like 40-50% acceptance in a single year.  That eliminated a "swing" supplier which would have absorbed folks who couldn't get into UVA or W&M.  For that, you can blame the pandemic, [b]admissions priorities,[/b] Amazon/Bezos (the tieup with VT), the 2019 yield debacle, etc.

Thus, our choices are either accept going to the 2nd or even 3rd tier VA publics, or save up and go private or OOS.  In this status-conscious, high-achieving area, that is difficult to accept and to do, but the situation is just going to get worse.[/quote]

This.  I don't think "first-generation" should be pushed as much as it has been as the "new" special class.  I'm first generation and got no breaks. Why should I have gotten any breaks simply because my parents didn't finish or attend college?  If parents care enough, they should write their legislators in Richmond.  I'm happier if those first-generation kids who took all the TJ slots are Virginians.  I'm not going to be happy if those at VT and the 952 who got into UVA ED and EA are from other states.  California should be taking care of its own first-generation students.  And since it has already limited OOS to 10% or less, (same with Texas), now is the time to get UVA and Va Tech to reduce the amount of the OOS students and also SCHEV should investigate how many of those first-generation slots went to OOS.[/quote]

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