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Well, NOVA for 2 years and then transfer is the way to go if your DC is from this area then and not in the range of the SHEVE report posted above - sounds much more tenable and less stress inducing.[/quote]

Well, it may be tenable, but students who have the stats to have a reasonable chance of acceptance at W&M are probably not going to want to attend NOVA with the C students from their HS while their friends go off to four-year colleges.  If their parents can afford W&M, they can probably afford decent OOS schools where those same stats were qualify the student for scholarships.  A kid would have to be really fixated on W&M to want to go to NOVA rather than just letting it go and finding a good fit elsewhere for the same price (or less).

I have yet to come across a single person whose kid actually did the transfer to W&M after two years. 
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I[b]f $$ is a concern, kid can go to a lesser VA school, like Mason, and transfer to the flagship if after a year they are still pining for it.[/quote][/b]

I have one child at Mason and one at UVA.  Mason is actually more expensive (dorms or food plan - can't remember which - and their credit hour/tuitions systems are different), so that suggestion doesn't make sense.  And all freshman must now live on campus.  Those that live close to Mason have to file for a waiver to live off campus; it's not a guarantee.  Finally, under your suggestion, they can't apply EA, even apply RD theyare applying to UVA based upon only a fall semester of classes, if that, so UVA is unlikely to take them, but might at the two year mark.  A better plan would be to go to community college, take the required courses and get the required GPA, then you are guaranteed a place at UVA at the start of your third year.
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