<p>I’m explicitly contradicting the assertion that there is some admission handicap that is particular to NoVa. </p>
<p>Hampton Roads applicants are competing against other Hampton Roads applicants for the “limited” seats allotted for Hampton Roads students. And likewise Richmond, and Blacksburg, and the eastern peninsula, and the extreme southwest, &c. And as the above post shows, NoVa actually gets disproportionately <em>more</em> admissions than their population would predict, so being from NoVa is actually more advantageous than being from some random location in the state (although I suspect this has a lot to do with both applications and matriculation being from self-selecting pools).</p>
<p>The “limit” appears to be nothing more than being at or near the op of your HS class, according to your grades and course rigor. This is obviously not a problem at all for the OP.</p>