<p>According to UVA Admissions (DeanJ), there is NO quota for NoVa, the ONLY limitation they are given is to put together an entering class that is 2/3 Virginians, 1/3 OOS. I have no reason to doubt her veracity.</p>
<p>UVA already has one of the largest endowments for a public school anywhere, and is run very close to a private school funding model. State Appropriation is only 10% of the academic budget. <a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/finance101/answers.html#budget-income”>http://www.virginia.edu/finance101/answers.html#budget-income</a></p>
<p>Do you have any solid numbers to back up your assertion that, “the bar for NoVA students to gain admission to UVA is higher than that for the students from the rest of the state and OOS”? Because as far as I can find, the same standards of test scores and class rank seem to apply equally across the state, and Virginians clearly have a LOWER bar to reach than OOS applicants. </p>
<p>The WaPo article you link to does not include any hard data supporting your assertion on this subject. In fact, it contradicts it and indicates that NoVa applicants are accepted at pretty much the same rates as statewide: “The acceptance rate for in-state students is about 40 percent, compared to about 20 percent for out-of-state students, McCance said. According to data maintained by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the acceptance rate in 2012-2013 for Fairfax (which had 2,248 applicants) was 41 percent, for Loudoun (which had 678 applicants) was 36 percent, for Prince William County (which had 433 applicants) was 35 percent, and for Arlington (which had 298 applicants) was 41 percent.”</p>
<p>They mention that Lynchburg City had 35/70 admissions, but that is not a large enough sample to be statistically significant.</p>
<p>The University does break down where the in state students come from, and they are already accepting an overwhelming number from NoVa, primarily Fairfax County. <a href=“http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/iaas/instreports/studat/dd/enrl_city.htm”>http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/iaas/instreports/studat/dd/enrl_city.htm</a> The numbers seem roughly proportional to the populations in each city/county, which is about what we should expect. Fairfax County actually seems to be overrepresented already.</p>