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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The actual math is

(1) It’s cheaper to go from DC to other states for college than it is to live in Virginia and go to top Virginia schools. (Eg, Purdue OOS is about the same price as VT in-state, and then you subtract DCTAG.) This is because in-state prices in Virginia are absurdly high compared to in-state prices in most states. [b]In fact I know several Virginia families who have gone out of state to save money. [/b]

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[b]but the real reason is that their kids didn't get into UVA or W&M or VT. [/b]Several families I know had to fall back upon OOS applications when those schools did not accept their kids.[/quote]

Hard to get in when you don't even apply.     Not everyone wants to go to those schools.  My kid didn't. [/quote]

ok for them. The point is that a move to Virginia opens up a lot of options including all of the other schools (JMU, Radison, GMU, VCU, etc. and the NVCC transfer program.)[/quote]

You can go to VCU from DC. If you have a weighted 3.5 you are guaranteed admission and a $12k merit scholarship. DC TAG is $10k. The delta between in-state and OOS tuition is about $22k. If you think that’s a coincidence you underestimate the people at VCU who designed that pricing scheme.

And the math works roughly like that for all the lesser Virginia schools, as well as the lesser Maryland and Pennsylvania schools. Moving doesn’t “open up” those options. They are already open.[/quote]

a) the VCU program was just implemented in January but you need a 3.5 weighted GPA
b) the VCU program is open to all applicants not just DC residents
c) VCU initiated the program to raise overall GPA to push VCU up the rankings
d) we know this because VCU's GPA at the 25th percentile is only a weighted 3.29

But back to options, Virginia has over 40 public insitutions of higher learning (there's a wiki listing them). That, alone, is reason to move. There's something for everyone. Plus lower taxes; a responsive government; law enforcement, etc[/quote]

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