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Investment is so much more than tax support. It’s whether you are going to stay in the Commonwealth after graduation. It’s whether your parents (and consquently the applicant) are residents of the state. The Commonwealth of Virginia has so many more career opportunities than do other states. What benefit is it for the state of Virginia to educate a New Yorker at UVA or W&M simply so that New Yorker can go back to Manhatten upon graduation?</p>
<p>Rumor has it on CC that OOS legacies get a priority equal to instate applicants. Why don’t IS legacies get a higher priority than regular IS applicants?</p>
<p>Unless UVA cuts all ties with the state legislature, accepts no funding from the commonwealth, decides to charge $45K across the board and declare itself a private school, it still owes something to the taxpayers.</p>