Many of my friends were from “rova” (rest of virginia… hahaha) and honestly they had no chance against the nova and oos students. They didn’t get deans list, they were lucky to get Bs. It is an affirmative action of sorts. I heard from my friends, lots of stories of students from really rural rova who drop out. I mean, how can you not admit the valedictorian? But then when the valedictorian gets straight Cs at UVA… One of my very best friends was salutatorian of her rural rova hs but she got mostly Cs at UVA with some Bs. Not sure she ever got an A. She studied for hours. I would help her with things I had learned in middle school as an OOS student. The high school education is just superior in NOVA and OOS. I mean, she got a 2 on her AP Calculus exam as the #2 student in her whole high school. I teach in Fairfax now and our #2 student is taking multivariable calculus and definitely got a 5 on their AP calculus exam. There aren’t official quotas, but the situation I described above is real.