Virginia Tech Business

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DD is applying early action to VT(out of state). Is interested in hospitality management as a career but I believe she would be more employable and better equipped for the workforce by getting a business degree instead(less specialized). However, her math grades and test scores leave a lot to be desired. She has a 27 superscore, 34 Reading and English, but a 17 on the math section. Since business is a more math-heavy major, I am worried that VT might not accept her if she sends in her ACT score. She is interested in the Marketing and Management majors at VT and at this point would rather do that than the hospitality and tourism major offered there. Any advice on if she should submit the score and info on the Pamplin business school?

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Good luck. Va tech was crazy unpredictable for admissions last year. I’m not sure if my 4.0 unweighted student with 1400 sat will be accepted. We are in state from a very successful high school which may be held against us.

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck. Va tech was crazy unpredictable for admissions last year. I’m not sure if my 4.0 unweighted student with 1400 sat will be accepted. We are in state from a very successful high school which may be held against us.

also applying ea and to Pamplin

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You might find useful info in VT's common data set. Do you have a few safety and likely schools identified?

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck. Va tech was crazy unpredictable for admissions last year. I’m not sure if my 4.0 unweighted student with 1400 sat will be accepted. We are in state from a very successful high school which may be held against us.

This. It's a total crapshoot thanks to Covid. This was DD's safety school and she got waitlisted last year. She eventually got in but there's no guarantee. Previous admissions stats mean nothing post Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck. Va tech was crazy unpredictable for admissions last year. I’m not sure if my 4.0 unweighted student with 1400 sat will be accepted. We are in state from a very successful high school which may be held against us.

If you're not applying for Engineering, you are fine. For all the hype/paranoia, VT had still had a 70% admittance rate last year. It's predicted to be a 64% admissions rate this year, but that's still very high and your kid is well above their mean GPA and SAT. Everyone had stories of somebody's friend who didn't get in with x or y, but every kid I knew directly who had decent GPA/scores got in--and we're one of the competitive high schools. VT runs it pretty much by the overall numbers and is less concerned about class rank than UVA or W&M.

Engineering is more unpredictable.

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DS is a freshman at VT. He had multiple friends waitlisted at VT who definitely should have been in based on stats alone, engineering and non-engineering. It seems really unpredictable.

With a low math score I'd lean toward test optional, esp if the transcript shows good rigor and grades in math

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a freshman at VT. He had multiple friends waitlisted at VT who definitely should have been in based on stats alone, engineering and non-engineering. It seems really unpredictable.

With a low math score I'd lean toward test optional, esp if the transcript shows good rigor and grades in math

They waitlisted people 10800 because they are notoriously bad at enrollment management and a lot of the strongest students use VT as a safety and they wanted to filter who those were out. Of those, 6990 accepted the waitlist spot--the others wanted to go somewhere else. Of those who stayed on the waitlist they offered 3959 a spot--so about 57%.

But in the end 70.9% of students who applied were accepted. People felt it was a crapshoot because of the waitlist game and there was a lot of drama. But in the end those who were qualified in pretty much the same way as always got in.

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck. Va tech was crazy unpredictable for admissions last year. I’m not sure if my 4.0 unweighted student with 1400 sat will be accepted. We are in state from a very successful high school which may be held against us.

If you're not applying for Engineering, you are fine. For all the hype/paranoia, VT had still had a 70% admittance rate last year. It's predicted to be a 64% admissions rate this year, but that's still very high and your kid is well above their mean GPA and SAT. Everyone had stories of somebody's friend who didn't get in with x or y, but every kid I knew directly who had decent GPA/scores got in--and we're one of the competitive high schools. VT runs it pretty much by the overall numbers and is less concerned about class rank than UVA or W&M.

Engineering is more unpredictable.

People who applied early action got in mostly. Tech says to apply EA and not do RD since they fill most seats in EA. All kids I know who didn’t get in applied RD.

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BT notoriously selected first generation students last year and yield protected against the high stats TJ kids. There are a lot of threads on this.

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Go Business Informations Systems, make bank.

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Anonymous wrote:BT notoriously selected first generation students last year and yield protected against the high stats TJ kids. There are a lot of threads on this.

They put a ton on the waitlist--like nearly 11k, waited to see if they accepted the spot and then accepted a TON (well over 1/2!) who did. SO it's yield protect light. If you want to get in and have the stats you will.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is applying early action to VT(out of state). Is interested in hospitality management as a career but I believe she would be more employable and better equipped for the workforce by getting a business degree instead(less specialized). However, her math grades and test scores leave a lot to be desired. She has a 27 superscore, 34 Reading and English, but a 17 on the math section. Since business is a more math-heavy major, I am worried that VT might not accept her if she sends in her ACT score. She is interested in the Marketing and Management majors at VT and at this point would rather do that than the hospitality and tourism major offered there. Any advice on if she should submit the score and info on the Pamplin business school?

My DC has almost identical ACT scores to your DD, but is interested in the Humanities. Test optional confuses me so much, because while we'd like for the schools to see her high Reading and English, we don't want them to see her low math. I wish we could report some sections but not all.

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They put a ton on the waitlist--like nearly 11k, waited to see if they accepted the spot and then accepted a TON (well over 1/2!) who did. SO it's yield protect light. If you want to get in and have the stats you will.

This. VT accepted 70% of the students who applied. Enough with the first gen, URM, hooked whining nonsense. The facts don't support your narratve.