<p>TarHunt and Dean J bring up good points. NoVa has some great schools, and thus a lot of their kids go to top schools, and a ton go to UVA. The rest of Virginia is the same, some great schools sending many of their students to UVA or other top colleges.
If you are one of those NoVA kids crying that everybody else is a “hick” and does not deserve UVA as much as a top 20% or even 30% NoVa student, you have lived a very sheltered life. There are deserving kids everywhere and that is why UVA promises to look at all information in the admission process, something which I applaud.
And if 100 kids from your school get into UVA each year, don’t you think that that is enough?</p>