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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is in a VT (not her first choice) with 3.9 unweighted GPA, 33 ACT, 1390 SAT, intended major BioChem. And if it matters, she's white, not a legacy, and from VA.

Her best friend is also in a VT (her first choice) as an intended English - Creative Writing major with a 3.3 unweighted GPA and 26 ACT. Best friend is white and also, obviously, from VA. She also has two older siblings who went to VT, but over 8 & 10 years ago. [/quote]


We're talking about this year's admissions. There was a significant drop due to number of applications. The counselors were warned of it in advance.

PP is talking about this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is in a VT (not her first choice) with 3.9 unweighted GPA, 33 ACT, 1390 SAT, intended major BioChem. And if it matters, she's white, not a legacy, and from VA.

Her best friend is also in a VT (her first choice) as an intended English - Creative Writing major with a 3.3 unweighted GPA and 26 ACT. Best friend is white and also, obviously, from VA. She also has two older siblings who went to VT, but over 8 & 10 years ago. [/quote]


We're talking about this year's admissions. There was a significant drop due to number of applications. The counselors were warned of it in advance.

PP is talking about this year.

No, she's talking about a current student already in VT unless I'm misreading the "a" to be "ats" and she means current. Maybe not for engineering. Go read the stats of the reports for accepted, WL and denied on college confidential. The Schev reports don't lie. Incoming class at V Tech this past fall was 4.21/4.00/3.78.

[Anonymous]

Look at UVA's SCHEV report for entering students' GPA this past fall: 4.47, 4.29 for median, and 4.13 for bottom 25%. ACT 33/35. DD got in two years ago with a 4.05 and a 33 ACT. Today she would be in the bottom of the class GPA-wise http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp. I don't think she would get in now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vermont? [/quote]


Virginia Tech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter and all her friends got in. They were looking to go as a group but 1 or 2 may go to Wvu.

It's nice they all got in! Wvu is good too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is in a VT (not her first choice) with 3.9 unweighted GPA, 33 ACT, 1390 SAT, intended major BioChem. And if it matters, she's white, not a legacy, and from VA.

Her best friend is also in a VT (her first choice) as an intended English - Creative Writing major with a 3.3 unweighted GPA and 26 ACT. Best friend is white and also, obviously, from VA. She also has two older siblings who went to VT, but over 8 & 10 years ago. [/quote]


We're talking about this year's admissions. There was a significant drop due to number of applications. The counselors were warned of it in advance.

PP is talking about this year.

No, she's talking about a current student already in VT unless I'm misreading the "a" to be "ats" and she means current. Maybe not for engineering. Go read the stats of the reports for accepted, WL and denied on college confidential. The Schev reports don't lie. Incoming class at V Tech this past fall was 4.21/4.00/3.78.

I'm talking about this year. I typed a instead of at as you said. DD and her best friend are both HS seniors. I was making a point of what someone else said earlier that certain majors/schools are admitting kids with lower than the 4.0, 1580, 35 scores.

I don't believe her friend with a 3.3 GPA and 26 ACT (didn't take SAT) would get into a math/science/engineering program at VT. This girl's sister who graduated undergrad and graduate from VT in Psychology was telling her not to get her hopes up because her stats weren't amazing. I think it helped that her intended major is in the humanities.

Sorry I wasn't clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is in a VT (not her first choice) with 3.9 unweighted GPA, 33 ACT, 1390 SAT, intended major BioChem. And if it matters, she's white, not a legacy, and from VA.

Her best friend is also in a VT (her first choice) as an intended English - Creative Writing major with a 3.3 unweighted GPA and 26 ACT. Best friend is white and also, obviously, from VA. She also has two older siblings who went to VT, but over 8 & 10 years ago. [/quote]


We're talking about this year's admissions. There was a significant drop due to number of applications. The counselors were warned of it in advance.

PP is talking about this year.

No, she's talking about a current student already in VT unless I'm misreading the "a" to be "ats" and she means current. Maybe not for engineering. Go read the stats of the reports for accepted, WL and denied on college confidential. The Schev reports don't lie. Incoming class at V Tech this past fall was 4.21/4.00/3.78.

I'm talking about this year. I typed a instead of at as you said. DD and her best friend are both HS seniors. I was making a point of what someone else said earlier that certain majors/schools are admitting kids with lower than the 4.0, 1580, 35 scores.

I don't believe her friend with a 3.3 GPA and 26 ACT (didn't take SAT) would get into a math/science/engineering program at VT. This girl's sister who graduated undergrad and graduate from VT in Psychology was telling her not to get her hopes up because her stats weren't amazing. I think it helped that her intended major is in the humanities.

Sorry I wasn't clear. [/quote]


Well, congratulations then! That's great! When we toured for engineering they said 4.0 minimum.

[Anonymous]

Look at UVA's SCHEV report for entering students' GPA this past fall: 4.47, 4.29 for median, and 4.13 for bottom 25%. ACT 33/35. DD got in two years ago with a 4.05 and a 33 ACT. Today she would be in the bottom of the class GPA-wise http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp. I don't think she would get in now.

[Anonymous]

My daughter and all her friends got in. They were looking to go as a group but 1 or 2 may go to Wvu.

That's cute, but maybe they should consider branching out and making new friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admissions rates by county for all Virginia colleges

http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/b8_admissions_locality.asp

I wish someone could just sticky these links to the top of the forum. I think I post them weekly.

2016-2017

Fairfax
3,330 applied
2,316 admitted (69.5% acceptance rate)
1,006 enrolled (43.4% yield)


Loudon
1,161 applied
806 admitted (69.4%)
392 enrolled (48.6% yield)

An interesting reminder. If the yield is only 43% from Fairfax, it could be another indicator that they are looking for people who really want to be there.

That's really high for them. Their yield is usually about 30% overall.

[Anonymous]

Any chance VT can join the big ten? It's so much bigger and wealthier than the Acc . The Acc is last in income going to the schools. Each big ten school is getting 52 million a year almost double the Acc payout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admissions rates by county for all Virginia colleges

http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/b8_admissions_locality.asp

I wish someone could just sticky these links to the top of the forum. I think I post them weekly.

2016-2017

Fairfax
3,330 applied
2,316 admitted (69.5% acceptance rate)
1,006 enrolled (43.4% yield)


Loudon
1,161 applied
806 admitted (69.4%)
392 enrolled (48.6% yield)

An interesting reminder. If the yield is only 43% from Fairfax, it could be another indicator that they are looking for people who really want to be there.

That's really high for them. Their yield is usually about 30% overall.

43% is a very high yield for the third choice for a large share of the applicants who only apply in-state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any chance VT can join the big ten? It's so much bigger and wealthier than the Acc . The Acc is last in income going to the schools. Each big ten school is getting 52 million a year almost double the Acc payout.

Wrong thread. Find a sports forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admissions rates by county for all Virginia colleges

http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/b8_admissions_locality.asp

I wish someone could just sticky these links to the top of the forum. I think I post them weekly.

2016-2017

Fairfax
3,330 applied
2,316 admitted (69.5% acceptance rate)
1,006 enrolled (43.4% yield)


Loudon
1,161 applied
806 admitted (69.4%)
392 enrolled (48.6% yield)

An interesting reminder. If the yield is only 43% from Fairfax, it could be another indicator that they are looking for people who really want to be there.

That's really high for them. Their yield is usually about 30% overall.

43% is a very high yield for the third choice for a large share of the applicants who only apply in-state.

No, it's not the third choice for most of the applicants (I'm assuming you mean UVA and W&M) because VT is a tech school. It attracts an entirely different type of student, as it should. Think of students applying to UCLA, Berkeley and Cal Tech. VT is the best tech school in the state so it's no. 1 for those who want to do engineering, architecture, nutrition, animal husbandry.

[Anonymous]

Did someone just compare VT to CalTech? They aren’t even close.