<p>Ronbo, again, parents arguments that OOS enrollment should be reduced because too many OOS students take away places from equally qualified IS students doesn’t add up. UVa is a pretty large school and, because of this it seems admissions to UVa seems While a lot of easily Ivy caliber students attend UVa, the large number of students UVa has to accept to maintain its size allows many more less elite students to get in. Simply put, it seems that if you have a 3.8+ UW GPA, take a hard course load at your school, score 1400+ on the SAT (old scale), and do a couple of ECs you should get in (say around 80% chance). That’s not super hard by any means.</p>
<p>Bottom line: If your disgruntled about your kid not getting into UVa it’s probably not because the school is discriminating against them, but they didn’t work as hard as many of the students in their target demographic that did get in. </p>
<p>NOTE: These are my observations as a Virginian from a high school with a pretty good reputation it seems with UVa and as a UVa student.</p>