<p>I just heard from a friend whose son goes to JMU that starting next year they are going to start cutting back OS acceptances to allow more instate kids to attend. Anyone else hear this? What are the figures for IS v/s OS students?</p>
<p>I believe Virginia public universities (VT, UVA, W&M, etc.) have a limit of around 30% for out of state students. I have heard that they are “reviewing the criteria” in the Virginia House of Delegates based on the economic downturn and the fact that most states are more restrictive. North Carolina for instance is capped at 10% out of state students. When you look at the cost of in state for a school like JMU compared to private you can see why Virginians are pushing for more in state seats. This is all just a rumor right now, so keep your chin up.</p>
<p>Found this on the Virginia Legislature web site…</p>
<p>Virginia House fails to pass in-state student increases
By Miles Hilder March 3, 2009
The Virginia House of Delegates adjourned for the year Friday without passing a trio of bills that would have raised the requirement of in-state students at some of Virginias public colleges and universities to as much as 80 percent.</p>
<p>The bills, proposed by Republican delegates Timothy Hugo 86, David Albo and Clifford Athey Jr., would have affected students applying to Virginia colleges as high school students as well as transfer students. All three failed to pass through the House appropriations committee earlier this month.</p>
<p>HB 2475 and HB 1696, authored by Hugo and Albo, respectively, would have required that either 75 percent of undergraduate or 80 percent of all students at the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and James Madison University are residents of the state of Virginia. Albos proposal included the Virginia Military Institute, University of Mary Washington and Virginia State University as well.</p>
<p>Currently, 67.9 percent of the Colleges 5,806 undergraduate students are from Virginia.</p>
<p>Albos plan, which mandated the 80 percent quota, called for Virginias state institutions to increase their number of admitted in-state students by 1.3 percent annually, beginning in 2010, until the quota of in-state students was met.</p>
<p>HB 2324, proposed by Athey, would have required that 80 percent of transfer students admitted into Virginia state institutions are of Virginia residence. If schools failed to reach the 80 percent quota by 2010, the bill called for a cut of all state funding to the violating institution.</p>
<p>The three bills, which were referred to the appropriations committee Feb. 4, were analyzed by the states Department of Planning and Budget. The department released a 2009 Fiscal Impact Statement on each piece of legislation.</p>
<p>According to the departments statement, if enacted, HB 2475 would have cost the state of Virginia $28,439,430 in the next fiscal year to help augment the $57,322,373 in tuition losses resulting from the bill, due to the fact that out-of-state student pay higher tuition. Under the proposed plan, the College would have suffered $7,870,500 in lost tuition.</p>
<p>Because of the nearly $30 million gap between what the state subsidy would have been to in-state schools and the actual total loss of tuition money, the statement determined that affected schools would have been forced to increase tuition.</p>
<p>Due to the 1.3 percent annual increase requirement for admitting in-state students laid out in HB 1696, the departments Fiscal Impact Statement on the legislation forecasted a $13,276,986 annual tuition loss to the schools affected. Under this plan, the College would have suffered $1,440,120 in annual tuition losses.</p>
<p>The statement estimated that the College would have required 9.3 years to reach the new quota, resulting in a total loss of $13,393,116 in tuition to the school over that period of time. Once again, the statement determined that affected schools would have been forced to increase tuition.</p>
<p>The increase of in-state transfer students highlighted in HB 2324 would have cost Virginia institutions $11,444,043 in tuition losses. If enacted, the bill would have cost the College $866,232 in lost tuition. The losses would have once again ostensibly forced the College to increase tuition.</p>
<p>In fall 2008, 69.8 percent of the Colleges 443 accepted transfer students were from Virginia.</p>
<p>As of March 3, all three bills were marked as dead on the General Assembly tracking website.</p>
<p>Looks like it was not a rumor but will not happen.</p>