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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 1608170, member: 3609"] UVa and W&M are basically paying their own way now, and becoming private schools would get us out from being held captive to the whims of Richmond (such as the 65-35 law limit on out-of-state students, which really only affects UVa and W&M). The first plans to have UVa go private came about because the then-governor wanted to pool all contributions to state schools and dole them out as necessary. Since nearly all the money would have come from us, our alums and administration didn't like it one bit. UVa and W&M believe they would benefit because everyone would pay, at a minimum, what is now the out-of-state tuition. The quality of the students would go up because more of them would have to meet the academic standards that out-of-state students need to have in order to be competitive for admission, which are higher than the in-state students need now. The middle 50% SAT totals are from 1870-2180. I really don't think a non-athlete out-of-stater gets in with an 1870 total. There's a lot of resentment among the in-staters over the quotas for admission from the various regions of Va. UVa has divided Va into 4 regions of roughly equal population and admits a roughly equal number of students from each: Northern Va (NoVa); Richmond and central Va; Tidewater (Norfolk); and Southwest Va (Roanoke and the "tail" that sits under WVa). NoVa insists it's being shortchanged (it's not) and everyone gripes there are too many (better known as "any") students admitted from Southwest, especially since "their schools are not as good as everyone else's" and "they're the ones admitted with the 1870 totals". The geographic quota system would be one of the first things to go. Bottom line, UVa and W&M want to become Va's versions of Vanderbilt, Duke, Rice, and Tulane and leave the State U stuff to Va Tech. [/QUOTE]

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