Cost of in-state tuition and room and board at VA Tech is about $19,000.

Cost for a good full-day preschool in Northern Virginia for 9.5 months is about $16,000. Of course, many preschoolers wont get the summer off, so their parents will pay over $20,000 in a year.

So if you can afford preschool in NOVA, you can afford to send your kids to VA Tech, too (assuming they get in).