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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ UVA needs to increase its share of first-generation students to compete with UCLA and UMich. It will improve its US news ranking. 695 offered in EA/ED round is actually not that many. UVA makes roughly 9000 offers each year. So it's not even 10%. UVA's yield is only around 40%. Don't equate the admitted number with the final enrollment.[/quote]

So this is another exercise in colleges slavishly doing whatever is needed to jump
In the rankings. Public universities should not be playing that game.[/quote]

P[b]erhaps UVA needs to grow a bit.  Virginia has 8.5 million residents and its flagship only serves 17,000 undergraduates, 35% of whom are OOS.  You can have a highly ranked elite public school with 30,000 undergraduates.  Berkeley, Michigan, and UCLA seem to manage it quite well.  [/b][/quote]

There's no room.  UVA was built in 1819 and is landlocked, trainlocked and has insufficient parking as it is.  Due to the fact it can't expand, UVA started GMU in 1957 as its northern campus.  GMU was then made an independent university in 1972.  Berkley was established in 1868 and UCLA in 1882, both when land was available everywhere in California and dirt cheap.  That's why California has such splendid large campuses.  That's also why is has such a wide-open and straight freeway system (which used to be great to drive on until everyone moved out there).  No need for eminent domain and land was next to free.

This is also why UVA-Wise was established in 1954.

The Commonwealth is pouring money into the other 40 institutions of public higher learning in the state.  When my DS attended GMU, it felt like non-stop construction and it is still going on.  [/quote]

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