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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To me it goes:

UVA, WM, VT engineering 
VT, JMU, GMU comp science
CNU, UMW, VCU, GMU
Other VA publics[/quote]

+ 1  pretty straightforward [/quote]

UVA, W&M, VT, and JMU, for instance, are largely taking students from upper middle income families and producing upper middle income graduates.  This isn't really turning iron into gold.

Schools like ODU, Norfolk State, and Virginia State are actually doing more to move a higher percentage of their students from lower income brackets to higher income brackets.[/quote]

Got to keep running, just to stand still.  Counter to narrative, it's not easy to stay UMC -- that's where the upwardly mobile land without generational wealth to passively ride on.   Probably the best definitional difference between MC and UC is "do you have to work to maintain class status" implying that UC could get by on passive management of existing assets.

It's pretty straightforward, if not easy, to go from LC to MC:   finish high school, get a full-time job, and wait until age 21 to get married and have children.
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/

Poor school districts should be flooding the zone with Certified Nurse Assistants, LPNs, Skilled Construction Trades, IT Technicians, etc.  Going to a cut-rate collage to get a degree in "communications" or "business" is going to saddle them with debt (even with free tuition) and keep them out of the workplace.

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Perhaps, but choice of major will probably be more important in "staying UMC" than choice of college.[/quote]

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