VT this Friday?
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Anonymous
What were her extracurriculars? |
Anonymous
But this forum is filled with kids with similar stats who did not apply to engineering who were waitlisted. |
Anonymous
+ 1 |
Anonymous
Making the UMD CS (!wow);acceptance & $$$ all the more impressive. Grab that with both hands and congrats! |
Anonymous
Kid at JMU who is not a partier. JMU is no different from any other college which has students who want to party. Some do and some don’t. |
Anonymous
It very much is a lottery now. No explanation for anything. |
Anonymous
It is frustrating that it is so hard to predict. It seems like their short-answer questions are really make a difference in the decision since that's the only thing they look at beyond transcript and test scores if submitted. They don't even look at teacher recs or the common app essay. |
Anonymous
We are interested in knowing these waitlist statistics since my DD was waitlisted (NoVA resident, 3.8 UW/4.2W, 33 ACT). How are others reading them? For 2021 what does "were able to offer 3,286 applicants from the waitlist" mean? It seems inconsistent with "Number of wait-listed students admitted: 86"? Is the 86 number actually "enrolled" not admitted? Reading the website waitlist FAQs and common data set together does seem to suggest that in 2021 8,690 were offered waitlist spots, 4,924 stayed on the waitlist, 3286 were offered spots off the list and 86 students enrolled off the waitlist. Otherwise, what does the 3,286 number refer to? In the alternative, if VATech only offered 86 students admission off the waitlist, I would assume that a lot of student who stayed on the waitlist will have moved on. Just like the regular admissions cycle, wouldn't VA Tech need to make a lot more offers than spots to fill the final spots? But offering admission to 3,286 of 4,924 sure doesn't sound right either....... |
Anonymous
DS got into both last year and chose JMU with no hesitation. It felt like home to him and he's had a great year so far, academically and socially. I'd suggest you attend both admitted student days if you can. |
Anonymous
+1 i know kids happy at both of them, visit and see what her gut feeling is. DS got into both and had a strong preference for VT |
Anonymous
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DD in. Biological Sciences major
TO 4.3 IB Diploma candidate Strong ECs / leadership URM Honors College *deferred at UVA also in at her reach school, but only received 1/4 scholarship - putting school out of our $$$ range. She'll most likely choose VT. |
Anonymous
How do you know this? |
Anonymous
NHS, sport for three years (one varsity), Spanish club, volunteering at the animal shelter for two years, part-time job are the ones I remember. Just checked and she also got offered aid worth about 85% of tuition. Kind of blown away over here. I know she kind of charmed and stalked the admissions officer for her school. So demonstrated interest was there. She had been deferred in the ED round. |
Anonymous
When DS applied a couple years ago they were very explicit about this. And, in the common data set, these are the only "very important" things: Rigor GPA Essays - meaning only their short answer Qs + First gen Race/ethnicity Residency Nothing else is "important". But they "consider": Test scores ECs Talents Personal qualities Alumni Work/volunteer Most of the "considered" are likely considered mainly via the short answer Qs since that is the main place to express those qualities. Otherwise, it would only be in the brief activities list in the application. |
Anonymous
It's important to also know the major/school to which the student applied. There is a HUGE difference in acceptance rates, for example, between computer engineering and English, so the stats that will get you into the latter will not cut it for the former. |