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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in VA and am so aggravated by the # of kids I see applying and not getting into UVA who are seriously bright, solid A students.  It's ridiculous.
It makes me think my high schooler won't get in when he applies in a couple of years.  High A student, athlete, has great SAT scores, but white male and from a middle class background/private school.

I LOVE how UNC Chapel Hill is required by STATE LAW to keep in-state at high numbers: 
"As of June 14, 2024, 82% of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) are in-state residents. State law requires that at least 82% of each freshman class be from North Carolina, and the state government limits the number of non-residents to 18%."

As opposed to Virginia "In fall 2023, 65.5% of first-time freshmen at the University of Virginia (UVA) were in-state students. UVA aims to have a majority of Virginians in its student body, but doesn't have quotas for specific regions or high schools. UVA's offer rate for Virginia residents is usually higher than the rate for out-of-state students."

Why doesn't VA have this law!

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Why.should VA have such a law? [b]The schools voluntarily limit OOS admissions to a reasonable level. [/b]Virginia offers a wide variety of choices in public education at the university level.   My recent graduate and rising college senior applied to the big 3 VA schools UVA, VT and W&M and were accepted.  After attending accepted student days at a number of schools UVA was dropped from consideration.  It is not the be all end all of undergraduate education.   They both chose programs that reflected their interests attended a school ranked higher in their area of interest than UVA and received an excellent education at a cost less than would have been possible at UVA.

If your kid wants to go to UVA, then there will be options if even remotely qualified.   All he needs to do is make the waitlist.  As a VA resident he will then have the option to study at UVA-Wise for a year and then transfer to the main campus.  Also remember, his first level of competition is those students at his school that plan to apply to UVA.  Have a higher GPA and test scores than those students and he will have a better chance of admission.

In the end he may have better options than UVA. Many kids do and take advantage of those better opportunities.

UVA admission rates wont change by the time your kid applies so focus on those things that you can impact to improve his chances and lobby your state representatives for change if that makes you happy.  It is unlikely to change for the reasons many have posted on this thread.

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This. You can argue the OOS percentage should be lower, and even a small increase in in-state admits would help, but where it is currently isn’t out of the norm for a state flagship.[/quote]

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