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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You want UVA to take more instate students?  Make it larger!  [/quote]

UVA is pathetic, it's one of the smallest flagstate schools in the nation compared to the number of HS students.

I don't know why VA residents tolerate it.

incoming... UVA booster claiming VA tEch and UVA are basically 1 university.  :roll: [/quote]

Dean J has suggested that UVA is not the state’s flagship university. I don’t think VA, per se, claims to have one. VA has a variety of institutions. Everyone can find a place. No need to centralize everything at one school. In California, the UC system is considered the flagship. [/quote]

Historically, UVA and William and Mary have been considered the most selective options in Virginia.  Combined, they have about 23,500 undergraduates, with about 2/3rds of that total, or about 15,500 in state.  UNC Chapel Hill would be comparable for the State of North Carolina.  It has 19,117 undergraduates, with 82%, or 15,675, coming from in-state.  Since NC has about 23% more people than Virginia, you can't say Virginia has a very different model or comparatively few slots.  UT Austin has 40,000 undergraduates but a state population 3.4X as large as Virginia.  It actually has fewer spots there on a per capita basis than Virginia.[/quote]

This is correct. There are plenty of seats for Virginia students of all stripes at Virginia colleges. [/quote]

I would add that expanding the seats at UVA (and VT and W&M) probably will have a ripple effect.  VT recently increasing enrollment recently and part of the impact appears to have been a decline in enrollment at schools like JMU and VCU.  Since the state has invested significantly in those schools, and overall state enrollment is not growing (and has declined significantly at the community college level), this wouldn't make any sense.

If you look at combined enrollment at UVA, W&M, VT School of Engineering, and Honors programs at other schools, there are a significant number of seats for good students.[/quote]

Also, UVA has been gradually expanding its class size. In 1991, 2,539 kids enrolled. In 2006, 3,091 did so. This year (2020), 3,785 enrolled. So, over 30 years, UVA has expanded its class size by 1,246 students, or about 50%. Given that four classes are on campus any given year, and that’s 5,000 more undergraduate kids on campus. [/quote]

Still too small for the flagship university in Virginia.  But I get it.  NOVA parents like that it’s small so they can brag to others how hard it is to get in. [/quote]

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