<p>according to college board only 38% of applicants are admitted to UVA.
As a state school this is simply unacceptable! Even with good GPA and good SAT scores it's a crap shoot for a student from Va to get in.</p>
<p>UVA 38% accepted</p>
<p>Penn State 62% accepted
U of Delaware 47%
U of Conn 51%
U of SC 68%
Uof Tenn 74%
Ohio State 74%</p>
<p>and all the SUNY's in NY state.</p>
<p>UVA is trying to go Private in order to... you guessed it...make money.</p>
<p>"Because the state caps U-V-As tuition level the only method for increasing tuition is through the Charter University plan which reduces much of the states control over UVA and gives the school greater financial independence."</p>
<p>and here is this article from 2003....</p>
<p>Why sound an alarm? Increasingly, we hear talk of privatization, both from Charlottesville and Williamsburg widely understood as loosening or even cutting historic ties between those two schools and state government.</p>
<p>The rumblings about privatization thus far have been mainly talk. State financial support for the two institutions, while declining, remains above the 10 percent threshold. Excluding the UVa Hospital, next years UVa budget will include 13.4 percent state funding; the figure at W&M will be 19 percent. Yet the talk persists</p>