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[quote=Anonymous][quote]So you can see why a lot of Virginians are upset. [/quote]

I really can't.  Or rather, I see why they're upset, but they're directing their ire the wrong way (more on that in a minute).  Virginia has made the decision to fund UVa and other state schools at a certain level.  That level isn't sufficient to permit the school to admit 90% in-state students at current tuition rates.  So the school either has to raise in-state tuition rates (significantly), or admit more out-of-state students.  Virginia residents howl when in-state tuition is raised, and the state/Board of Regents won't do it.  So that leaves one alternative.  To channel President Clinton, it's just math.

Put another way, you can't have high in-state admissions with low tuition rates and skimpy state support.  The numbers don't add up.  Virginians who don't like this situation have only themselves to blame, because they elected the state government that won't fund higher education to the level they desire (because there is nothing worse than higher taxes, you see).  If you'd like to see it change, change the composition of the state (sorry, *Commonwealth*) government.  But you (collective Virginians, not you personally) elected a Governor who believes that working women are detrimental to the family and American society - you can't really act surprised when education isn't high on his priority list.  After all, he became governor and apparently only received a shallow mockery of an education himself.  And that's without even getting to the, ah, "gentlemen" you elect to the state house and senate.  (By the way, those last few sentences also double as powerful reasons why many DC residents don't think too highly of moving to Virginia), in-state tuition notwithstanding).

As for the difficulty getting in from noVa, there's no question it exists.  But the concentration of high SES, educated families in NoVa means that each in-state incoming class at UVa, for example, would be upwards of 80% NoVa residents.  Even people who are personally affected should be able to see that such a situation would be completely untenable (as a political matter) for the school.  [/quote]

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