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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really would prefer my DC (HS class of 2026) stay in VA-both due to proximity and also cost, However they feel that they do not want the social continuation of their HS-with the top 10% academically going to UVA, top 30% to VTECH and most of the rest of the kids to JMU, VCU, GMU or NOVA. We are in a high achieving public HS in NOVA.

Have any of your kids expressed similar view? [/quote]

It doesn't work like that at all. Assuming your HS has 500 kids in their grade and 20% end up at VT, that's 100. Once you are done dividign them across the various majors, you are unlikely to have more than a handful of kids in your DC's major. Even within that not everyone takes the same classes given AP credits, etc. Now intersect that number with the kids your DC actually knows in HS.  Unless she is Miss Popularity, she likely knows about a 100 kids. You are looking at a very small number of 'same old' kids from her HS she will be interacting with.[/quote]
I was in band in HS and many of those kids went to the State U and joined the marching band.  If I'd gone there I would have ended up in almost exactly the same social circle as HS.  A few new kids eventually worked their way into the group (mainly new bfs and gfs) but the core 30-40 kids were exactly the same as HS.  I see posts on FB of that same group still hanging out.  Now their kids are going to the State U and joining marching band.[/quote]

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