VA Tech EA

[Anonymous]

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Seems like a lot of yield protection boys, lemme list me and my friends stats (we're all in-state, and we all got waitlisted)

Me - 1540 SAT, 3.94/4.49 gpa. Decent ECs, few board positions and founded a club

Friend 1: 1570 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa. Better ECs than mine, a few awards and a paid internship.

Friend 2: 1530 SAT, 4.0/4.5 gpa, way better ECs than mine, ISEF alternate, national level debater, president of a couple clubs and internships.

Friend 3: 1530 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa, on par with me for ECs, a couple board positions and Tennis varsity captain.

What a joke.

VT knows these kids won't attend as their first choice.


2020-2021 75% of incoming freshmen SAT 1360 GPA 4.2

https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Copied from Reddit below:

Seems like a lot of yield protection boys, lemme list me and my friends stats (we're all in-state, and we all got waitlisted)

Me - 1540 SAT, 3.94/4.49 gpa. Decent ECs, few board positions and founded a club

Friend 1: 1570 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa. Better ECs than mine, a few awards and a paid internship.

Friend 2: 1530 SAT, 4.0/4.5 gpa, way better ECs than mine, ISEF alternate, national level debater, president of a couple clubs and internships.

Friend 3: 1530 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa, on par with me for ECs, a couple board positions and Tennis varsity captain.

What a joke.

I would be embarrassed if I got in with low stats but I was black or brown. Don’t URMs want to play on the same playing field? Aren’t they embarrassed they have lower requirements?


VT knows these kids won't attend as their first choice.


2020-2021 75% of incoming freshmen SAT 1360 GPA 4.2

https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

[Anonymous]

How do they determine who gets off the waitlist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Copied from Reddit below:

Seems like a lot of yield protection boys, lemme list me and my friends stats (we're all in-state, and we all got waitlisted)

Me - 1540 SAT, 3.94/4.49 gpa. Decent ECs, few board positions and founded a club

Friend 1: 1570 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa. Better ECs than mine, a few awards and a paid internship.

Friend 2: 1530 SAT, 4.0/4.5 gpa, way better ECs than mine, ISEF alternate, national level debater, president of a couple clubs and internships.

Friend 3: 1530 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa, on par with me for ECs, a couple board positions and Tennis varsity captain.

What a joke.

VT knows these kids won't attend as their first choice.

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But they likely would be happy to attend as their best value once they get all their acceptances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Copied from Reddit below:

Seems like a lot of yield protection boys, lemme list me and my friends stats (we're all in-state, and we all got waitlisted)

Me - 1540 SAT, 3.94/4.49 gpa. Decent ECs, few board positions and founded a club

Friend 1: 1570 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa. Better ECs than mine, a few awards and a paid internship.

Friend 2: 1530 SAT, 4.0/4.5 gpa, way better ECs than mine, ISEF alternate, national level debater, president of a couple clubs and internships.

Friend 3: 1530 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa, on par with me for ECs, a couple board positions and Tennis varsity captain.

What a joke.

VT knows these kids won't attend as their first choice.

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But they likely would be happy to attend as their best value once they get all their acceptances.

And if they knew that upfront, they should have applied ED. Part of what is coming home to roost is the arrogance of high-stat kids (and their parents?) to collect acceptances from colleges they know they won’t attend. This is not a game. If a smart student can’t realistically identify a college that will accept them and their family can afford, they may lack common sense. Perhaps, parents need to be more involved in the application selection and strategy process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Copied from Reddit below:

Seems like a lot of yield protection boys, lemme list me and my friends stats (we're all in-state, and we all got waitlisted)

Me - 1540 SAT, 3.94/4.49 gpa. Decent ECs, few board positions and founded a club

Friend 1: 1570 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa. Better ECs than mine, a few awards and a paid internship.

Friend 2: 1530 SAT, 4.0/4.5 gpa, way better ECs than mine, ISEF alternate, national level debater, president of a couple clubs and internships.

Friend 3: 1530 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa, on par with me for ECs, a couple board positions and Tennis varsity captain.

What a joke.

VT knows these kids won't attend as their first choice.

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But they likely would be happy to attend as their best value once they get all their acceptances.

And if they knew that upfront, they should have applied ED. Part of what is coming home to roost is the arrogance of high-stat kids (and their parents?) to collect acceptances from colleges they know they won’t attend. This is not a game. If a smart student can’t realistically identify a college that will accept them and their family can afford, they may lack common sense. Perhaps, parents need to be more involved in the application selection and strategy process.

Really? I doubt you have better common sense. So there is no point for having the concept of safety, match and reach schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Copied from Reddit below:

Seems like a lot of yield protection boys, lemme list me and my friends stats (we're all in-state, and we all got waitlisted)

Me - 1540 SAT, 3.94/4.49 gpa. Decent ECs, few board positions and founded a club

Friend 1: 1570 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa. Better ECs than mine, a few awards and a paid internship.

Friend 2: 1530 SAT, 4.0/4.5 gpa, way better ECs than mine, ISEF alternate, national level debater, president of a couple clubs and internships.

Friend 3: 1530 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa, on par with me for ECs, a couple board positions and Tennis varsity captain.

What a joke.

VT knows these kids won't attend as their first choice.

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But they likely would be happy to attend as their best value once they get all their acceptances.

And if they knew that upfront, they should have applied ED. Part of what is coming home to roost is the arrogance of high-stat kids (and their parents?) to collect acceptances from colleges they know they won’t attend. This is not a game. If a smart student can’t realistically identify a college that will accept them and their family can afford, they may lack common sense. Perhaps, parents need to be more involved in the application selection and strategy process.

Really? I doubt you have better common sense. So there is no point for having the concept of safety, match and reach schools?

There is, but when your reach is MIT, your match is Cornell, and your safety is VA Tech, there may be a problem, particularly if money is an issue (the previous poster mentioned value). If money is an issue, why not ED to UVA or VATech and target other state schools like Purdue or Illinois (for engineering).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Copied from Reddit below:

Seems like a lot of yield protection boys, lemme list me and my friends stats (we're all in-state, and we all got waitlisted)

Me - 1540 SAT, 3.94/4.49 gpa. Decent ECs, few board positions and founded a club

Friend 1: 1570 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa. Better ECs than mine, a few awards and a paid internship.

Friend 2: 1530 SAT, 4.0/4.5 gpa, way better ECs than mine, ISEF alternate, national level debater, president of a couple clubs and internships.

Friend 3: 1530 SAT, 3.93/4.48 gpa, on par with me for ECs, a couple board positions and Tennis varsity captain.

What a joke.

VT knows these kids won't attend as their first choice.

<div id="divenrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile" data-applicationUrl="https://research.schev.edu/" data-report="enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile" data-autoSizing="height" data-linkParams="{'lbUNITID':'233921', 'lbREPYEAR':'2021'}" ></DIV>

But they likely would be happy to attend as their best value once they get all their acceptances.

And if they knew that upfront, they should have applied ED. Part of what is coming home to roost is the arrogance of high-stat kids (and their parents?) to collect acceptances from colleges they know they won’t attend. This is not a game. If a smart student can’t realistically identify a college that will accept them and their family can afford, they may lack common sense. Perhaps, parents need to be more involved in the application selection and strategy process.

Really? I doubt you have better common sense. So there is no point for having the concept of safety, match and reach schools?

There is, but when your reach is MIT, your match is Cornell, and your safety is VA Tech, there may be a problem, particularly if money is an issue (the previous poster mentioned value). If money is an issue, why not ED to UVA or VATech and target other state schools like Purdue or Illinois (for engineering).

My point is that high-stats kids tend to pick a reach and match that are similarly difficult to achieve. So, the only high probability acceptance is the safety. But, if they apply to the safety last (EA at Tech is essentially RD) there may be no spots left. At that point, stats don’t matter.

[Anonymous]

What’s the waitlist plan? How does it work and when?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What's arrogant is VT saying they only want high-stats students if they are willing to give up any other option and apply ED.

That's exactly what's happening. VT hasn't gotten admisions right for three years now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What's arrogant is VT saying they only want high-stats students if they are willing to give up any other option and apply ED.

That's exactly what's happening. VT hasn't gotten admisions right for three years now.

+1

Is the staff illiterate??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What's arrogant is VT saying they only want high-stats students if they are willing to give up any other option and apply ED.

That's exactly what's happening. VT hasn't gotten admisions right for three years now.

+1

Is the staff illiterate??

*10000 some crazy stuff going on this year....and the high stat kids are taking the brunt of it

[Anonymous]

10000^10000

[Anonymous]

Look maybe VT found that it’s charter was best served by taking kids who wouldn’t get in to UVA or W&M. If you are a VA resident you’ve got great choices. If they choose to do admissions differently and don’t want to be used as a safety school that’s their right and no one is harmed by having to go to UVA or W&M. I’m sure a super high star kid with demonstrated interest and good essays is getting in.

[Anonymous]

^ BS. There is no way VT Admissions knows which few students from NoVa public high schools are going to get into UVA/W&M.