<p>I have a question that has been bugging me the last month or so.</p>
<p>I am a senior in high school from Washington state and am seriously hoping to get into the UVa and study architectural history (though I’m not sure I will get in, considering my SAT scores are only a little above average and my GPA and rank are above average but not that amazing). I heard that the UVa was very hard to get into if you were OS, and it wasn’t until looking through this forum that I found the reason why. Apparently there is a state mandate that 2/3 of the students admitted to the university must be in-state.
Is this true?</p>
<p>If it is, why is that? From an OS student’s perspective, it seems very unfair that just because I wasn’t born in Virginia that I have a much harder chance of getting into the university than an IS student.</p>
<p>And yes I know that you have to be a citizen to be considered IS. But to be considered a citizen, you have to have lived there for 1 or 2 years, am I correct? So the only way I could have been a citizen of Virginia is if I was born and raised there all my life, my family lived there, or I decided to pick up and move to Virginia and live there for 2 years, which would never work out according to my circumstances.</p>
<p>I’m just and ignorant out-of-stater wondering why VA has a state mandate where UVa must have 2/3 students the ratio of in-state students (and I assume this mandate applies to other universities in the state as well).</p>