Waitlisted at Virginia Tech 😑 . Question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the Virginia Tech website
Numbers for School of Design, not international

2022-23
477 applied
248 accepted
78 enrolled
Offer rate 52%
Yield rate 31.5%

2023-2024
484 applied
229 accepted
68 enrolled
Offer rate 47.3%
Yield Rate 29.7%

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So I am guessing they aim for around 70 students per year.

And within school of design is industrial design which had 28 students enroll both instate and oos last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS was waitlisted last year. From what I understand, no one on the waitlist was ever offered admission for fall 2023.

DS just put in a transfer application for Virginia Tech - fingers crossed!

Good luck to your son! Would you mind telling us what school he currently attends?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS was waitlisted last year. From what I understand, no one on the waitlist was ever offered admission for fall 2023.

DS just put in a transfer application for Virginia Tech - fingers crossed!

Good luck to your son! Would you mind telling us what school he currently attends?

GMU

[Anonymous]

Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Hi, did you work your tail off on their supplemental essays? Or did you treat it like a safety? That’s the typical reason what high stats kids are wait listed at VT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Perhaps you shouldn't have thought of it as your "safety school," for starters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

It is called yield protection. Colleges waitlist students with very high stats because they know the student will get into other schools that are better than theirs and end up going there. If you are really interested, you should have shown interest throughout the year (open every email, attend their department open houses, etc.) as well as send in a strong letter of continued interest once you got waitlisted.

[Anonymous]

It amazes me that people actually consider VT a safety and just assume they’ll get in. Pretty arrogant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Your supplemental essays were probably not very good. VT cares a lot about the answers to those 4 questions. If not that, then perhaps you are a lying troll?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Your supplemental essays were probably not very good. VT cares a lot about the answers to those 4 questions. If not that, then perhaps you are a lying troll?

Yield protection most likely. A bunch of very high stat kids from our HS are waitlisted at V Tech the last couple of years. Most view it as a safety however and have no intention of attending. I think V Tech just wised up to this fact. Just unfortunate. Cannot blame the school or kids, just the whole ratings game that needs to be played.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me that people actually consider VT a safety and just assume they’ll get in. Pretty arrogant.

A bunch of kids, many of whom got into HYPSM and other top 10 schools, were all waitlisted from our school. They do consider it as a safety. Cannot blame them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?

Your supplemental essays were probably not very good. VT cares a lot about the answers to those 4 questions. If not that, then perhaps you are a lying troll?

Yield protection most likely. A bunch of very high stat kids from our HS are waitlisted at V Tech the last couple of years. Most view it as a safety however and have no intention of attending. I think V Tech just wised up to this fact. Just unfortunate. Cannot blame the school or kids, just the whole ratings game that needs to be played.

Happened to my kid.

In at places several top 10 schools, waitlisted at VT which should have been a safety.

It sucks, because the Virginia waitlists to multiple schools completely wrecked out plans for attending in state universities.

Yes, my kid gets to go to a much higher ranked school than VT, but financially, we c9mpletely lose out because the plan and the years of work were focused on in state tuition.

I wish the schools would not play these games, and would just use an objective admissions metric like the SAT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me that people actually consider VT a safety and just assume they’ll get in. Pretty arrogant.

A bunch of kids, many of whom got into HYPSM and other top 10 schools, were all waitlisted from our school. They do consider it as a safety. Cannot blame them.

Yes, happened to my oldest 2 years ago (non-engineering 4.83/1560/35 blah, blah, blah) and all non engineering in the top 10 of their class. While they found it amusing, I can see how it could stress someone out.

[Anonymous]

Are your parents college graduates? Since 2022, VA tech has had a goal of 40% of its students being the first in their family to go to college. For programs like engineering and business, this makes it more competitive than other schools if your parents graduated college.

Not saying they’re the only school that does this, but it definitely has an impact.

[Anonymous]

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/09/admissions-fall-census-2022.html