The Charlottesville/Albemarle airport is located on Route 606 off of Route 29 North. Directions. Airlines: Colgan Airlines: Daily nonstop flights to New York's LaGuardia Airport. Comair, the Delta Connection: Daily nonstop flights to Cincinnati and points beyond. United Express: Daily nonstop flights to Washington Dulles and points beyond. US Airways Express: Daily nonstop flights to Philadelphia, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, New York's LaGuardia and points beyond.

Charlottesville, located in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, is home to 30,000 people and 130,000 in the larger metropolitan area. Education, high-tech companies, light manufacturing, tourism, agriculture, and retail trade make up its economic base.

Charlottesville is a small, thriving city, 120 miles from Washington D.C. It has a community symphony orchestra, a light opera company, Renaissance vocal groups, It celebrates the Film Festival every fall and the Festival of the Book every spring. The downtown area is an eighteen-block, brick-paved pedestrian mall with more than twenty outdoor cafes and restaurants, numerous modern theatres as well as a cinema focusing on foreign and independent films. rom April through October, Charlottesville celebrates Fridays After Five downtown, with live bands at its new amphitheatre. Contemporary performers like Hootie and the Blowfish, Charlottesville's own Dave Matthews Band and Zhane have all been a part of the music scene.

The countryside around Charlottesville, especially in the spring and fall, ranks among the most beautiful sites in the nation. The countryside offers numerous Civil War sites and historical roadmarkers detailing more than two hundred years of history.

The Chamber of Commerce web site offers a wealth of information about Charlottesville/Albemarle.

The Office of Admission invites all prospective students and their parents to attend a Group Information Session and stay afterwards for a walking tour of the University Grounds. While we neither require interviews nor use them to evaluate applicants, the deans of admission do meet with students on an individual basis to answer questions and to provide counseling if special circumstances require it. Such appointments do not affect the admission decision.

All students are expected t come to one of the nine summer orientation sessions offered in July and August. All students are charged $175 for the orientation program. During the two-day session, students will meet with a faculty advisor, register for classes, become familiar with the U.Va. Grounds, and meet some of their new classmates. In the summer 1999 sessions, 92 percent of all students attended summer orientation and 65 percent of them brought along at least one parent for the simultaneous parent orientation program. Visit the Summer Orientation web site for more information.

The Charlottesville/Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau offers a list of hotels, inns, and restaurants.