How much does legacy status help in-state students at UVA?

UVaParent2022
Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:58:12 +0000

I am curious about this as well. I understand they’ve stated out of state legacy gets considered with in-state applications (still selective but less so than out of state obviously). My question is an in-state legacy competing with in-state non-legacy and out of state legacy students. Does the legacy status essentially ‘break the tie’ with in-state well qualified non legacy? How do they judge out of state vs. in-state legacy applicants if there is a tie? The state flagship needs to admit a certain number of Virginians. This must be tricky. They get the full tuition paid by out of state legacy - but is that reason to choose them over an in-state legacy with similar stats? What percent of total admits are legacy in or out of state?