How does Virginia Tech have such a high admissions rate?

[Anonymous]

I'm curious how many apply VT early decision because that would influence yield too. With a higher acceptance rate there's less motivation to ED. UVA recently added ED and so their yield will likely go up since every ED acceptance = 100% yield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From https://irweb.ir.vt.edu/webtest/admission_data.aspx
You can run these reports for each school, but here are the two for VT overall and VT engineering.


VT Overall


Engineering Only

How do you get this info for other colleges?

Why on earth did they give out so many offers? Of course they have an overpopulation problem now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From https://irweb.ir.vt.edu/webtest/admission_data.aspx
You can run these reports for each school, but here are the two for VT overall and VT engineering.


VT Overall


Engineering Only

How do you get this info for other colleges?

Why on earth did they give out so many offers? Of course they have an overpopulation problem now.

Because if you look at the year before they were under-enrolled and a lower than expected yield and so they overshot the next year and had a higher yield. For whatever reason, VT struggles more with managing enrollment--both under and over-- than the other VA publics.

[Anonymous]

Re other colleges - this is produced by SCHEV for all VA state schools. I don't know if any other states produce it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re other colleges - this is produced by SCHEV for all VA state schools. I don't know if any other states produce it.

The charts above are actually from VT's site, they provide much more detail than I've found at other schools, including other VA state schools. It's so nice to be able to look at all the admission stats down to the major level. SCHEV is helpful but I haven't seen the reporting as deep there as on VT's site. If it is, I'd love to find it to look at other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re other colleges - this is produced by SCHEV for all VA state schools. I don't know if any other states produce it.

The charts above are actually from VT's site, they provide much more detail than I've found at other schools, including other VA state schools. It's so nice to be able to look at all the admission stats down to the major level. SCHEV is helpful but I haven't seen the reporting as deep there as on VT's site. If it is, I'd love to find it to look at other schools.

Actually, VT's data is lacking a lot of information that other schools provide. UVA, JMU, GMU, and VCU's tables include admissions rates by things like residency, gender, and ethnicity.

UVA: https://ira.virginia.edu/university-stats-facts/undergraduate-admissions
JMU: https://public.tableau.com/profile/jmu.office.of.institutional.research#!/vizhome/JamesMadisonUniversity-Admissions/AppliedAcceptedEnrolled
VCU: https://irds.vcu.edu/eaar/interactive-reports/new-students/first-time-freshman-admissions-trends/
GMU: https://irr2.gmu.edu/Factbooks/1314/Factbook1314_Admission.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re other colleges - this is produced by SCHEV for all VA state schools. I don't know if any other states produce it.

The charts above are actually from VT's site, they provide much more detail than I've found at other schools, including other VA state schools. It's so nice to be able to look at all the admission stats down to the major level. SCHEV is helpful but I haven't seen the reporting as deep there as on VT's site. If it is, I'd love to find it to look at other schools.

Actually, VT's data is lacking a lot of information that other schools provide. UVA, JMU, GMU, and VCU's tables include admissions rates by things like residency, gender, and ethnicity.

UVA: https://ira.virginia.edu/university-stats-facts/undergraduate-admissions
JMU: https://public.tableau.com/profile/jmu.office.of.institutional.research#!/vizhome/JamesMadisonUniversity-Admissions/AppliedAcceptedEnrolled
VCU: https://irds.vcu.edu/eaar/interactive-reports/new-students/first-time-freshman-admissions-trends/
GMU: https://irr2.gmu.edu/Factbooks/1314/Factbook1314_Admission.pdf

Thanks, those are helpful. Still, none of them report data at the level of applications/applicant profile at the level of specific major like VT does. But it's nice to at least see it at the college level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re other colleges - this is produced by SCHEV for all VA state schools. I don't know if any other states produce it.

The charts above are actually from VT's site, they provide much more detail than I've found at other schools, including other VA state schools. It's so nice to be able to look at all the admission stats down to the major level. SCHEV is helpful but I haven't seen the reporting as deep there as on VT's site. If it is, I'd love to find it to look at other schools.

Actually, VT's data is lacking a lot of information that other schools provide. UVA, JMU, GMU, and VCU's tables include admissions rates by things like residency, gender, and ethnicity.

UVA: https://ira.virginia.edu/university-stats-facts/undergraduate-admissions
JMU: https://public.tableau.com/profile/jmu.office.of.institutional.research#!/vizhome/JamesMadisonUniversity-Admissions/AppliedAcceptedEnrolled
VCU: https://irds.vcu.edu/eaar/interactive-reports/new-students/first-time-freshman-admissions-trends/
GMU: https://irr2.gmu.edu/Factbooks/1314/Factbook1314_Admission.pdf

Thanks, those are helpful. Still, none of them report data at the level of applications/applicant profile at the level of specific major like VT does. But it's nice to at least see it at the college level.

I think only VT has the applying into major --not just designating major-- as a freshman option (with different profiles and outcomes for engineering apps). VCU has break out information for its specialized direct pre-med entry and W&M for their St. Andrews application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re other colleges - this is produced by SCHEV for all VA state schools. I don't know if any other states produce it.

The charts above are actually from VT's site, they provide much more detail than I've found at other schools, including other VA state schools. It's so nice to be able to look at all the admission stats down to the major level. SCHEV is helpful but I haven't seen the reporting as deep there as on VT's site. If it is, I'd love to find it to look at other schools.

Actually, VT's data is lacking a lot of information that other schools provide. UVA, JMU, GMU, and VCU's tables include admissions rates by things like residency, gender, and ethnicity.

UVA: https://ira.virginia.edu/university-stats-facts/undergraduate-admissions
JMU: https://public.tableau.com/profile/jmu.office.of.institutional.research#!/vizhome/JamesMadisonUniversity-Admissions/AppliedAcceptedEnrolled
VCU: https://irds.vcu.edu/eaar/interactive-reports/new-students/first-time-freshman-admissions-trends/
GMU: https://irr2.gmu.edu/Factbooks/1314/Factbook1314_Admission.pdf

Thanks, those are helpful. Still, none of them report data at the level of applications/applicant profile at the level of specific major like VT does. But it's nice to at least see it at the college level.

Which of those schools admits directly to major? I know UVA does not, so there wouldn’t be any data to see.

[Anonymous]

Which brings up yet another VT issue. Why do they think a 17 year old should be picking a major? How can anyone be sure when their classes have been English, Math, History, Science, and a few electives?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which brings up yet another VT issue. Why do they think a 17 year old should be picking a major? How can anyone be sure when their classes have been English, Math, History, Science, and a few electives?

They do have an undecided options -- University Studies as well as undecided or "explore" options within each college. I think the "explore" option is good even if you do have some idea of what you want to study, there is so much a 17 yr old does not know about what could be an option. My DS plans to apply VT and is interested in math/statistics but I think starting in Exploring Technology or Explore Science might be good for him to be exposed to a variety of options in the first year.

https://vt.edu/tags.html/vt_edu:academics/keywords/undecided

I went to a college that also had most students apply to a major and we started major classes in freshman year. I think it tended to make for a very focused student population. You didn't really have anyone there who didn't know what they wanted to do after college. But it definitely wasn't right for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Admission rate isn't the best indicator of selectivity. You can have a low admission rate, but if the applicants are generally not very qualified, it can be misleading.

Virginia Tech's engineering school appears to get fairly high quality applicants, but it doesn't get as many as one might expect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Admission rate isn't the best indicator of selectivity. You can have a low admission rate, but if the applicants are generally not very qualified, it can be misleading.

Virginia Tech's engineering school appears to get fairly high quality applicants, but it doesn't get as many as one might expect.

Huh? How do you know they have “high quality applicants?” What is your definition of that and where is the evidence that supports that?

[Anonymous]

Notice that chart doesn’t say if the SAT and GPA are for their offered or enrolled groups.

[Anonymous]

Still need residency info for VT. Anyone have it?

If the OOS pool is strong like at UVA, it would be interesting to know each group’s profile.