Please help me understand this about VT

[Anonymous]

It's really interesting to play around with that data site. Again using the white male in-state student, just looking at the College of Business, admit rates range from the 20%s -- 20% for Marketing, 26% for undecided up to the 60%s -- 67% for Accounting, 60% for Management.

And, definitely avoid applying undecided. The totally undecided, "University Studies" admit rate is only 7%. Each college has their own undecided option, generally called "Exploring..." and those admit rates are pretty low. For Exploring Liberal Arts & Human Sciences it's 19%, Business is 26%, Science is 43%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rate is much lower for engineering and computer science.

It's annoying to find, but you can see applications, acceptances, and enrolled my major here: https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#college

College of Engineering Acceptance Rate (removing he AA degrees: 56% (it was 76% in 2019, 63% in 2020)

When you select the CS department, it shows 6 applicants and 6 accepted. Not sure what's going on there.

It is because VT all incoming freshman to the engineering school (CS included) go into General Engineering for the 1st year.

It gets interesting when you filter the "Tuition" for in-state.... then you'll see that the acceptance rate for In-State Engineering is down to 33% in 2021... I'm curious to see the 2022 numbers, but I'll bet it is similar.
OOS applicants are at 66%... so it would appear that it is much easier to apply to engineering from OOS. Crazy, huh?

They admit a lot more from OOS because the yield is much lower (engineering for example has a yield of 17% for OOS vs. 54% for in-state). VT gives very little aid so it's an expensive option for OOS students. I like VT and my DS is there but I wouldn't choose it with the OOS price tag.

[Anonymous]

VA Tech admissions is focused on getting first gen and URM numbers up, finding those that can pay OOS tuition, and using the waitlist to yield protect and find students that will forgo merit. There are plenty of students (at least in NOVA) over the 50% and even 75% for gpa and test scores that got into schools like UVA, WM, CMU, UF, ND, GA Tech being waitlisted at VA TECH. If you are not applying ED and don't have a hook, you need to have a gpa and test scores that are just right - not too low, not too high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I don't have a dog in the VT fight but was curious about acceptance rates so plugged in White Male and the acceptance rate even for Arts and Sciences is hovering around 36%. Very surprised as I though engineering and CS were outliers, but apparently not.

This is correct. It is increasingly harder and harder to get into VT, no matter the college.

[Anonymous]

So many OOS families on the FB page - from all across the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I selected White male instate non URM Bachelors engineering and got 26 % acceptance rate.

When I select that it shows the offer (acceptance) rate is 57.9%, and the yield rate is 27.6%. Not sure what you're doing differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I selected White male instate non URM Bachelors engineering and got 26 % acceptance rate.

When I select that it shows the offer (acceptance) rate is 57.9%, and the yield rate is 27.6%. Not sure what you're doing differently.

Check that you selected instate under the Tuition drop down and you’ll see the numbers change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many OOS families on the FB page - from all across the country.

VA needs to put guidelines in place like NCs 85% in-state students rule. The entire country wants to attend VA schools and we are footing the bill while paying out of state tuition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many OOS families on the FB page - from all across the country.

VA needs to put guidelines in place like NCs 85% in-state students rule. The entire country wants to attend VA schools and we are footing the bill while paying out of state tuition

Virginia won’t fund its public colleges to make this happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many OOS families on the FB page - from all across the country.

VA needs to put guidelines in place like NCs 85% in-state students rule. The entire country wants to attend VA schools and we are footing the bill while paying out of state tuition

The OOS % is not unreasonably high IMO. In the latest numbers I could find, Fall 2020, 72% of freshman were from VA.

Yes, admit rate is a lot higher for OOS but yield is low. VT gives little aid to OOS students so those who are there are paying a lot to do so.