<p>@financiallylost…But I think that is really beside the point. The admissions office is not dumb, they know that OOS kids pay more. In some way. Whether it be in outside loans, grants or just full-pay parents writing the check. VT will get more money. From someone. Perhaps they have a state mandate that says that they have to accept a certain amount of in-state kids, like North Carolina does. So VT tries to bump up as close as they can to this mandate? Salaries like Frank Beamer’s are expensive! lol. </p>
<p>And the last thing that the admissions office wants is to have the VT financial people come to them and say…“We can’t afford your current freshman class”. They will hedge their bets. How else can you explain the in-state posters on these threads with Ivy league type stats not getting immediately accepted?</p>