Why do UVA and Michigan have such low yields?

sevmom
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:38:33 +0000

Pizzagirl, You and bclintonk are exactly right. Most kids even seem to stay within 2 or 3 hours of home. The few kids that seem to do more of a truly national search in my kids’s diverse public school have been kids that came from affluent backgrounds(a brother/sister pair come to mind that ended up at Columbia and Harvard had 2 physicians as parents-this was right before the newer financial initiatives). We’ve also had a couple of URM’s have success with schools like Chicago and Emory lately. And of course there is always the occasional legacy or recruited athlete that will go somewhere else (although even with that, UVa and Virginia Tech seem to have gotten the star athletes lately). Very few kids seem to be looking at pricey LAC’s. Most kids seem to like our public schools and of those that don’t or can’t get into the top publics,many seem to gravitate to publics in other fairly nearby states (South Carolina, College of Charleston, UNC Charlotte, ECU,etc.). So much really is local or regional for the vast majority of kids.