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Interesting...We know lots of Virginians who didn't get into UVa &/or William and Mary...
I can't imagine that Chapel Hill/Berkeley/Ann Arbor being much different than UVa and W&M....These are why these schools are in top rankings of the country. Based on the way my neighbors speak, I think they would gladly downgrade the national ranking of our flagship public schools if it would mean more instate kids would be admitted.
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Noooo! I'm an out-of-stater at UVA and I love it more than life itself and if anybody took it away from me I'd cry!
UVA is a much more respected school than any of my in-state public options, and public or not, it was my top choice university for all of the amazing things it offers its students academically and socially. No fair that only Virginians should get to enjoy the most wonderful university in America!
Tons of UVA's students are from NoVa and while UVA itself has a very well developed Southern flavor that I ADORE (grits and biscuits w/ gravy in the dining hall? Sweet tea on tap? Dresses and ties to the football games?), I would have to say that overall it's not as "Southern" a University as it could be thanks to the large of influx of cultured city kids from D.C. suburbs. Nothern VA definitely isn't the South--where I'm from they'd laugh you out of the room if you tried to suggest that it was. Well, no they wouldn't--they're much too polite!
