Washington Post Article

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<p>These guys have been barking about this for a while now. This bill sounds like a great way to send UVA and W & M whooshing down the plumbing in terms of quality. From the Post article:

Hugo and Del. David B. Albo (R-Fairfax) are sponsoring a proposal to limit the number of out-of-state students at Virginia’s schools to 25 percent. Their bill calls for public four-school colleges except for the state’s historically black schools, Norfolk State University and Virginia State University, and the Virginia Military Institute, to set aside at least 75 percent of freshman slots. Schools would have to increase out-of-state tuition and fees to make up for the decrease in students.

Someone who is better at math than I am (that would be all of you) can probably figure out exactly how much more OOS students would have to pay to make up for reducing OOS students from 35 percent to 25. I’m guessing that OOS tuition would then be as much as, if not more than, the cost of a top private school. This would probably mean a considerable increase in tuition for in-state students, as well, because how many OOS students who now choose W & M as a decent bargain won’t simply consider comparably priced private schools instead?</p>

<p>Right now the yearly instate COA is about $23.5K, and it’s about $45K for OOS students (including tuition, r/b, fees, and books). I don’t think Rep. Hugo has really thought this through.</p>