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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We currently live in DC and have two Middle Schoolers in private Middle School. We want to move in the next few years before the kids are in high school - we currently live in DC far away from the kids school and moving to NW DC would be most convenient. However, we want to consider all options.

Are kids from Northern VA considered in-state for purposes of admission or are they evaluated against others at their DC private school? Asked another way, if they apply to UVA or W&M, is there a better shot of admission if they have a VA address vs a DC address? Or does high school matter more?

I understand there is a financial benefit to being in-state, I'm specifically asking about admissions. [/quote]

applying to UVA from northern VA is not really an advantage.[/quote]

UVA and other public universities in Virginia take kids based on geographic regions.  Accordingly, it’s like applying to Harvard from Montana— applying to UVA from Fairfax is MUCH more difficult than applying from Roanoke.  Also, all OOS are not created equal.  UVA doesn’t want to fill its OOS portion with DC/MD kids only, meaning it’s MORE competitive. [/quote]

[b]No. DeanJ has repeatedly said there is no regional quota or cap for kids from Northern Virginia.[/quote][/b]

You actually believe everything she says? She's a marketing person! That's what college AOs are now - they will say anything to get your kid to apply so they can be rejected which drives down the acceptance and selectivity percentages. If you had bothered to do some research on thus (SCHEV) you would know that Fairfax County sends some 600 kids a year to UVA alone whereas some of the poorer counties to the south and west of the state send zero. Langley receives almost the exact same no. of acceptances every year as does TJ. She maynot want to call it "quotas" but it happens.[/quote]

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Is it just the one person who is ALWAYS parroting "Dean J"?  "Dean J says this/that!"  It's so incredibly annoying.[/quote]

Yeah why would you believe [i]an Associate Dean of Admission[/i] rather than some anonymous rando on DCUM?  :roll: [/quote]

because we know college admissions. we know AOs are indeed marketing people whose success in the end of the day comes down to that sentence they send out to alums (and ranking services) that says " Once Again (insert name of school) has received a record number of applications at 60,000 out of which we could accept only ---- making our selectivity drop to 12%. Rah rah! insert name of school). That is the game being played.[/quote]

If all they want is more applications and the job is just marketing, why does UVA talk about taking the best program and four years of language? That scares people away. That doesn’t get more applications. [/quote]

Because at the same time they also post saying "it's not just about grades" or "it's not just about test scores" immediately before admissions results are released showing selectivity has dropped to 12% for in-state. Or they use the euphemism "wholistic" which translates "we do whatever we want", especially when it comes to URM and first gen status. If you attend an info session, almost all of the questions are answered in an affirming way to emcourage your kid to apply. As to expected ("most") rigor and 4 years of foreign language, that's what all the T25s want to see.[/quote]

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