We are in VA. My son is looking for a significant increase in challenge as he is frustrated right now with most of his classes. I think he would be fine at UVA as he would be able to place out of a number of things but hearing so much about all these kids who couldn’t handle Calc 1 on our engineering tour didn’t show UVA in the best light. He loves the atmosphere though. I would hate to see the rigor decline based on admissions “quotas” or for there to be a separation of kids from TJ/FCPS/rigorous out of state schools and then others. From our tours it felt like other schools are more deliberate about quickly getting all kids to the same place and not having a division even though they also take students from a variety of backgrounds. We probably did not have the best set of tour guides though either. Both had impressive, deep resumes with lots of activities but were not as deeply involved in the academics.