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<p>UVA, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Michigan are quite similar in admissions stats. I don’t put a lot of stock in admit rate per se because at some schools the applicant pool is more self-selective, but FWIW in 2011 UNC’s admit rate (31.4%) was just slightly lower than UVA’'s (33.3%), while Michigan’s was very much in the ballpark (40.6%). This year Michigan’s admit rate is down around 32 or 33%, with a record 47,000 applicants. And the three schools draw very similarly-credentialed student bodies.</p>
<p>SAT-CR middle 50%: UVA 610-720, Michigan 600-700, UNC 590-700
SAT M middle 50%: Michigan 650-750, UVA 630-740, UNC 610-700
ACT middle 50%: Michigan 28-32, UVA 28-32, UNC 27-32.</p>
<p>The only significant difference is that UNC is a bit lower than the others in SAT Math. But I don’t think you can say UVA is “much more difficult to gain entrance into” than Michigan or UNC, especially for OOS students. I believe Michigan’s OOS admit rate is now somewhere below 20%, and I don’t know about UNC but I’ve always heard the OOS admit rate is very low because they have a policy of keeping OOS below 20% of the student body. UVA is much more difficult to gain admission to than Penn State and Maryland, yes, but not ‘most’ of the schools I mentioned.</p>