<p>Barq,</p>
<p>Would you still believe UVA should accept more out of state student if you were wait listed or denied?</p>
<p>Okay, I will admit that that type of a hypothetical question is hard to answer.</p>
<p>If I was waitlisted or denied, yes I guess I admit I would not be thrilled with UVa accepting more in-state students.</p>
<p>But, at the same time how about the out of state student who worked extremely hard in high school, scored high on his tests, did well in extracurriculars and was rejected from UVa while a number of students who did not do as much or extend themselves as much in high school were accepted.</p>
<p>An out of state student with a 4.0 and 2340 SAT probably would be a stronger student than an in-state student with a 3.6 and a 1960 SAT score and would in all likelihood make better usage of the University’s resources.</p>
<p>I believe that a truly “privately funded” public university could serve the state by still maintaining 50% in-state students while striving to get the most academically interested students from within Virginia and throughout the United States. Just a thought of course, nothing more.</p>
<p>Most OOS students accepted to UVA, and most who even apply, end up at other fabulous schools.<br>
Also, just because someone else got a 4.0 and got tutored all their life and etc doesn’t make them a better person that someone with only a 3.6.
Lastly, you can’t have a “privately funded” public school. As long as UVA will accept money from VA, it will remain public and the General Assembly will maintain ratios.</p>
<p>Go back and read Melli’s post. Think about the values that were behind the creation of UVA, TJ’s thoughts, and the influence it has put on UVA to shape it into what it is today. If it went private, it would remove all of this. Rankings, people, etc all don’t matter; what matters is having a fantastic school. We have it. Move on.</p>
<p>All right, I see what you guys are saying and know a lot of it (the state government would not allow 50/50 to happen) is hard fact. I wanted to see if anyone else would agree with such a step and see that it wouldn’t be so popular in the University community after all. Just curious.</p>
<p>In any case there are very few student admitted with a 3.6 and 1960 SAT. The few admitted with those stats must have some special hook in their apps.</p>
<p>Also, it was state funding over many years that equipped U.Va and allowed them to attract such top professors. For U.Va now to become private would be so unfair given this history. U.Va. is a college primarily for taxpayers’ children. One important purpose for opening its doors to OOS students is to allow their perspective to impact the education of the in-state students.</p>
<p>It is also my impression that the high school feeder schools to U.Va. are also pretty decent, so that the educational preparedness of most/all in-state students accepted to U.Va has to be respectably high.</p>