<p>Note the OP is from Northern Virginia. There is a glut of highly qualified applicants from NoVA that they alone can fill a class at UVA. Because of the need to serve the rest of VA, 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. UVA needs the OOS students willing to pay full tuition to operate since the state legislature has been very miserly in providing funds to VA state universities.</p>