What do you ‘need’ to get into VT engineering?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS applied last year and was excepted into their engineering program. He is a northern Va public school. He had a 4.5 weighted GPA with the highest math and science classes that his school offered in his schedule. He had a 1500 on SAT- 800 in Math. He had a year round sport, part time job since 10th grade, summer STEM enrichment programs, STEM extracurriculars in high school, pretty extensive volunteering, some unique awards. He is not a minority and not first generation. Hope this helps you- I agree that Naviance was not helpful in gauging whether he would get in or not. Good luck!

Your son sounds fabulous!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

I’m not reading the link but they addressed this plan very specifically when we toured last year and basically said don’t plan on this working. I got the impression they were rather annoyed by it and would fill open seats with people transferring in to VT first.

Last year my FCPS kid was told VT expects to see test scores from Nova students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

I’m not reading the link but they addressed this plan very specifically when we toured last year and basically said don’t plan on this working. I got the impression they were rather annoyed by it and would fill open seats with people transferring in to VT first.

Last year my FCPS kid was told VT expects to see test scores from Nova students.

DP here
Yes, my son and I toured last summer and they basically said it was impossible to transfer into engineering from another major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

I’m not reading the link but they addressed this plan very specifically when we toured last year and basically said don’t plan on this working. I got the impression they were rather annoyed by it and would fill open seats with people transferring in to VT first.

Last year my FCPS kid was told VT expects to see test scores from Nova students.

We toured last fall and we were also told to "Pick your major" when applying as it would be very hard to switch and advised not to do undecided. However our AO who spoke advised all of the kids to really think before submitted test scores and to research the stats as they were a TO school. He then made an example of a student "mistakenly" send their scores and they were under 1000. He shook his head and said"make sure you don't do that!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coming from a Northern Virginia public school, what GPA and SAT make you competitive? Is one weighted more heavily than the other? Does anything make you a shoo-in? Do specific grades matter (I.e. not having all As in math)?

Also appreciate stats from anyone who was admitted. We’ve looked at Naviance, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason. It also doesn’t differentiate for engineering vs other majors .

It's really hard to say. You can get admission stats from naviance for your school and from the tech website for overall. You can also get selectivity information at a very granular level (e.g. number of in-state students applied and admitted to Aerospace engineering who were male and not first-gen). You'll find that engineering is a very hard admit. On top of that, Tech also manages yield aggressively (i.e. protects yield). If you have a very high GPA and very high SAT, you may not get in while kids with lowers stats do.

If you are hellbent on getting into Tech, a good backdoor would be to get into an easier admit program and transfer into engineering after the first semester. This link talks about all the transfer requirements. Pick a major that you can live with, look at the requirements you'd need to meet and make sure those requirements also go towards the major you pick or other academic requirements at Tech.

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/transfer/roadmaps.html

I’m not reading the link but they addressed this plan very specifically when we toured last year and basically said don’t plan on this working. I got the impression they were rather annoyed by it and would fill open seats with people transferring in to VT first.

Last year my FCPS kid was told VT expects to see test scores from Nova students.

DP here
Yes, my son and I toured last summer and they basically said it was impossible to transfer into engineering from another major.

One exception might be CMDA (Computational Modeling & Data Analytics) -->CS. CMDAs adding a 2nd major in CS is pretty common and admit rate for CMDA in College of Science is much higher than College of Engineering.