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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would want to know the % of kids enrolled at the Va. public schools who are _Virginians_.   I know it varies among the universities.

Because here's the thing: if the % of state residents is "high" and the bar to entry is also high (say, 4.3 and 1470 or something), then I don't see the problem. It just means that State School X is enrolling the generally best-performing Virginia residents.

If however the bar is high for entry but a lot of the kids come from New Jersey, that's a different matter.

re: OP's point about being mediocre at Spanish and thus not earning a lotto ticket to do CS at Va Tech ... why not just study harder in the don't-come-easily-to-me subjects?  My own kid is a brilliant writer but also sucked at Spanish and really struggled with Calc+. Higher order math shouldn't matter for his future life as a corporate lawyer, but he spent 6x as long studying Calc / Chem / Physics to get that high grade because he needs that entry into Exclusive U. to be the lawyer he wants to be someday.

All the CS wannabes could probably do the same with English comp, no?

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Personally, I'm glad UVA takes a large % of OOS kids.  Not every state has good in-state options (e.g., DC), so I would hate for anyone to be shut out because of geography.[/quote]

Wikipedia says "UVA is required by Virginia state law, to matriculate two-thirds of its undergraduate student body from its pool of in-state applicants". Their website says "we have pledged to maintain a 2/3 majority of Virginia residents in our student population, but 2/3 of our applicants tend to come from out-of-state. As a result, our offer rate for Virginia residents tends to be much higher than the rate for out-of-state students"

So is UVA mandated to be 2/3 Virginian by law or are they free to decide? It's not clear. Other top publics like UCLA and UMich have way fewer in-state. [/quote]

They are mandated. This is just about the offer rate.[/quote]

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