Waitlisted at Virginia Tech 😑 . Question.

[Anonymous]

Yes, major matters as do essays. We have two kids who applied. One waitlisted - biology in 2021. Straight As, good rigor, iffy essays. Ultimately, withdrew from the waitlist. Her cousin with same stats and even more rigor was rejected at the last minute.
Our second kid - same major, slightly lower GPA but more rigor and better essays got in the following year but ED which no longer exists at Tech.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Cousin waitlisted and then rejected to be more clear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Your supplemental essays were probably not very good. VT cares a lot about the answers to those 4 questions. If not that, then perhaps you are a lying troll?

Yield protection most likely. A bunch of very high stat kids from our HS are waitlisted at V Tech the last couple of years. Most view it as a safety however and have no intention of attending. I think V Tech just wised up to this fact. Just unfortunate. Cannot blame the school or kids, just the whole ratings game that needs to be played.

Happened to my kid.

In at places several top 10 schools, waitlisted at VT which should have been a safety.

It sucks, because the Virginia waitlists to multiple schools completely wrecked out plans for attending in state universities.

Yes, my kid gets to go to a much higher ranked school than VT, but financially, we c9mpletely lose out because the plan and the years of work were focused on in state tuition.

I wish the schools would not play these games, and would just use an objective admissions metric like the SAT.

If an in-state school at which your kid was waitlisted was really their #1 choice, did they subsequently inform the school that if accepted, they would definitely attend? That can often work for kids with stats way above the median for the school. And if they didn't do this, why not? Also, why apply to several top 10 schools if you wanted to pay in-state tutition?

[Anonymous]

It’s really hard to determine if essays really were the make or break factor. I know a lot of parents think their kid’s essays were amazing, but it’s really a subjective evaluation. I definitely think any student applying to Va tech should pay attention to the essay and the service component.

But that 40% first generation component is pretty significant and I think it knocks some kids out of the running for admission that weren’t being knocked out from some other schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Hi, did you work your tail off on their supplemental essays? Or did you treat it like a safety? That’s the typical reason what high stats kids are wait listed at VT.

How can someone discern whether someone worked their tail off or treated it like a safety?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Hi, did you work your tail off on their supplemental essays? Or did you treat it like a safety? That’s the typical reason what high stats kids are wait listed at VT.

How can someone discern whether someone worked their tail off or treated it like a safety?

They can't, the pp is writing codswallop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Your supplemental essays were probably not very good. VT cares a lot about the answers to those 4 questions. If not that, then perhaps you are a lying troll?

Yield protection most likely. A bunch of very high stat kids from our HS are waitlisted at V Tech the last couple of years. Most view it as a safety however and have no intention of attending. I think V Tech just wised up to this fact. Just unfortunate. Cannot blame the school or kids, just the whole ratings game that needs to be played.

Personally, I think this is why VT should reinstate the ED. I know ED can be disadvantageous for certain people, but there are many high-stat Virginia kids whose first choice is VT.

[Anonymous]

VT does not yield protect. I know some.people want to use this as an excuse for their kids not getting in, but that does not make it true. VT will definitely reject/waitlist a "high stats" kid that does not take the time to appropriately answer their 4 short essay questions. The 20:57 PP on page 2, for example, does not take the time to proofread their posts. Perhaps their essays were also riddled with grammatical errors.

[Anonymous]

Shots fired!

Different poster, but there’s a different level of rigor and attention to detail needed for a college admissions essay vs a dcum post you’re probably doing in your phone. No need to be rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT does not yield protect. I know some.people want to use this as an excuse for their kids not getting in, but that does not make it true. VT will definitely reject/waitlist a "high stats" kid that does not take the time to appropriately answer their 4 short essay questions. The 20:57 PP on page 2, for example, does not take the time to proofread their posts. Perhaps their essays were also riddled with grammatical errors.

Do you have any factual data to support that or you just talking nonsense?

Your post very much and too many nonsense. Post very stupid, no understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT does not yield protect. I know some.people want to use this as an excuse for their kids not getting in, but that does not make it true. VT will definitely reject/waitlist a "high stats" kid that does not take the time to appropriately answer their 4 short essay questions. The 20:57 PP on page 2, for example, does not take the time to proofread their posts. Perhaps their essays were also riddled with grammatical errors.

Do you have any factual data to support that or you just talking nonsense?

Your post very much and too many nonsense. Post very stupid, no understand.

PP is talking codswallop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT does not yield protect. I know some.people want to use this as an excuse for their kids not getting in, but that does not make it true. VT will definitely reject/waitlist a "high stats" kid that does not take the time to appropriately answer their 4 short essay questions. The 20:57 PP on page 2, for example, does not take the time to proofread their posts. Perhaps their essays were also riddled with grammatical errors.

Do you have any factual data to support that or you just talking nonsense?

Your post very much and too many nonsense. Post very stupid, no understand.

Yes, VT states their policy very clearly. Please read the note under the FAQs regarding yield protection.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html#:~:text=Virginia%20Tech%20does%20not%20participate%20in%20yield%20protection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT does not yield protect. I know some.people want to use this as an excuse for their kids not getting in, but that does not make it true. VT will definitely reject/waitlist a "high stats" kid that does not take the time to appropriately answer their 4 short essay questions. The 20:57 PP on page 2, for example, does not take the time to proofread their posts. Perhaps their essays were also riddled with grammatical errors.

I'm skeptical that the essays are of such importance that they are weighted the same as, or take precedence over, GPA, class rigor, test scores, etc. After all, essays are not infrequently written by parents, paid consultants, etc. rather than the applicant. And even if a first draft is written by the student, edits by other persons can result in a very different product. Also, please don't tell me that the reviewers can tell if an essay is not written by the applicant - they would have no way of knowing this.

[Anonymous]

My kid will be turning down their Engineering spot for UMD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT does not yield protect. I know some.people want to use this as an excuse for their kids not getting in, but that does not make it true. VT will definitely reject/waitlist a "high stats" kid that does not take the time to appropriately answer their 4 short essay questions. The 20:57 PP on page 2, for example, does not take the time to proofread their posts. Perhaps their essays were also riddled with grammatical errors.

It didn't take long for the "VT does not yield protect" crowd to show up, did it?

You are wrong. Regardless of what their policy says, they do yield protect (or yield manage). Otherwise, you cannot explain the number of otherwise qualified kids that get waitlisted here but got into several other similar or higher ranked schools. Tech (along with NEU and UF) were safeties for my kid (a couple of years ago). He was waitlisted at Tech but got into the other two. I read all his essays and they were all of the same calibre. I may be biased about my kid's writing, but not so on a relative basis. We also know multiple kids that year and since with similar outcomes - didn't get into Tech, but did at higher ranked, more selective, schools. Can't explain that with "oh, they wrote poor essays because they were thinking it was a safety". No one does that.