Letter to the Editor
LTE: Virginia’s Students Need More Virginia Opportunities
A Northern Virginia student makes the case for a bill proposed by Delegate Comstock.
Dear Editor: It’s January and with January brings the most common concern of high school seniors; that’s college acceptance! Are you in? Are you out? Where are you going? How will we pay? This is all high school seniors are thinking about right now, as I was right there with them last year applying to Virginia colleges. With many of my high school classmates having their eyes set on William & Mary as their first choice, I did a little research and found out how fortunate I was to have gotten into William & Mary. William & Mary provides 32 percent of our college spots to out-of-state students. That makes it very difficult for many of our best and brightest Virginia students, including my classmates, to get in. That is why I was pleased to …
