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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this is why it seems like everyone’s kid is getting into Michigan.[/quote]

Yes the overall acceptance rate last year was 17%, and OOS was lower. So clearly everyone is getting in.[/quote]

Michigan is way more popular nationally than UVA.[b] It receives double the applications and has a higher yield without using ED to achieve it. [/quote][/b]

Well, gee, maybe that's because it has over double the students at 52K.  UVA is 24K. And Californians and west coaster apply to UVA because it's warmer.  Four fifths of the 57,000 applications to UVA last year were OOS.[/quote]

[b]I highly doubt many Californians would apply to UVA. When my kid was attending UC, his classmates had not heard of UVA.[/quote][/b]

Pfft!  I'm from L.A. and of course we all knew of UVA.  It was then no 2 or 3 on USNWR for best public university.  Californians are having a hard time getting into the U.C. and some Cal State schools.  The next less expensive option are OOS publics, which meant UVA.  Michigan is considered too cold.  I didn't want to go to UCLA or Berkeley because of their size.  [b]SLACs are too expensive[/b]. .That leaves the OOS publics.  https://news.virginia.edu/content/class-2020-random-connection-brought-californian-uva[/quote]

UVA OOS COA is $80k.  Not much of savings from SLACs with likely less aid.
https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2023-2024[/quote]

[b]I didn’t want to go to UCB or UCLA and desired to pay twice as much to attend UVA.  Says nobody ever, except those who had no chance at either CA school. [/quote][/b]
That point was made above.  Increasingly Californians can't get into their own top schools (which is why the Regents started scaling back OOS to 10% - more was making the taxpayers angry).  The next logical choice if  you are financially smart would be the OOS schools.  Michigan is too large for some (like me) and cold.  UVA is the next public ranked so it makes perfect sense.  What else are you going to do?  SLACs?  Mine in So Cal is $90K a year now and not worth it.  UVA OOS makes more sense plus if you offer something it wants you might get merit if you don't qualify for financial aid.

The only other option for californians who can't get into top UCs is to community college transfer as my cousins did.  Cal States too, I suppose, but even some of them are getting difficult to get into and most students stay the four years.  A better student usually will want the UC schools.[/quote]wrong in every respect[/quote]

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