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Same thing for UVA, it really concerns me as my oldest is applying for colleges in a few years.  It’s a budget balancing method, and it sucks for instate students.[/quote]

The data doesn't back this up at all.

People are really jumping to conclusions without any significant evidence.[/quote]

No one is jumping to conclusions.  It’s a budgeting method to increase the tuition of OOS students and increase the percentage acceptance rate of OOS to offset increased costs or raise more money.  Many states do this.  Virginia does NOT have a cap on the number or percentage of OOS students a state university can accept, the universities themselves set their own numbers, so it fluctuates from year to year. More people live in Virginia and those people have children who graduate high school and want to go to an in state school and the demand has increased substantially.  Earlier this year UVA agreed to allocate about 200 more spots for instate students, but it isn’t enough.

Look at NC.  By law each incoming freshman class must be at least 82% in state.  The state will not budge and their government has publically stated it will not change OOS ratios to balance their education budget.  Their priority is to their own in state students.  I wish Virginia would place a similar priority on its citizens.  You’re following yourself if you think money isn’t the issue.

Several bills have been introduced to get the GA to act on it, but nothing passes.
http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-vg-state-adm-guidelines-1116-20161116-story.html
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We've talked about the bills here before. They are PR. The rep can go home and tell people that they are fighting the good fight. They have no intention of them ever passing.

W&M, UVA, and VT agreed to ratios years ago. It just so happens that VT isn't as popular outside of Virginia, so their admissions rate is higher for that group. W&M and UVA have enough cache outside Virginia that their admissions rates are lower for that group. It's much harder to get into W&M and UVA from outside Virginia.

The stats are readily available if you want to see the proof:
http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B08H_report.asp

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