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[quote=Anonymous]How is this even a question? For Virginians UVA is $16,776 for tuition (DD lived off campus last year).  Northwestern is $80K plus travel from Virginia.  We banked the difference and can now send DD to Oxford on the difference.  Yes, OOS is much closer in cost but the smaller size makes UVA the pick unless there is some program at Northwestern that is particularly compelling. The comments about UVA being Southern are absurd.  It's as sophisticated as D.C./NOVA/Bethesda.  People gripe about UVA because they are envious.  MD doesn't have as good a selection of higher ED as Virginians.  Same for D.C.  Many Virginians pay for years and are discouraged by their high school college counselors (as we were, correctly, about one child) about even applying because it is so difficult to get into.  So the bulk of NOVA Virginians are unhappy because either their child didn't even bother to apply because there was no point; applied and didn't get in; they, themselves, applied and didn't get in, and had to go somewhere much more expensive.

The real question you should be asking is "can my child get into UVA".  There are only 4,500 slots.  UVA has already seen a record 32,000 ED/EA applications. Last year the total was 41,000.  This year the total will be much more due to families' financial situations impacted by COVID.  SCHEV reports the enrolled students for 2020/21 had a 75th percentile SAT of 1490.  ACT of 34 and GPA of 4.48.  On top of that, students in VA are competing against the other applicants from their own high schools.  You need to be at least in the top 10 percent of your high school class if not hooked.  It's not like UCLA or Michigan where the flagships are enormous universities - which is IMHO a good thing, but makes getting in all the more difficult.

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