How hard is it to get into UVA if you're from out of state?

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<p>…Question says it all =]</p>

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<p>Hard. Very hard. Similar selectivity to what you’d find at Cornell or Vanderbilt. Acceptance rates for OOS students have been consistently in the high 20s for many years. That will go down further next year as U Virginia will begin accepting the Common Application.</p>

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<p>Compare with Cornell or Northwestern and some “lower” (I hate that phrase) Ivies. I have heard of a lot of UVA OOS students turning down some Ivy league schools (and other schools, like Northwestern) for UVA.</p>

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<p>Here are the statistics for the class of 2012:</p>

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<p>Source: [Notes</a> from Peabody II: The UVA Application Process: Statistics for the Class of 2012](<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2008/03/statistics-for-class-of-2012.html]Notes”>Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Statistics for the Class of 2012)</p>