Virginia Tech gets 1,000 more freshman than last year
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Anonymous
Interesting |
Anonymous
And furthermore, why would W&M be taking from VT rather than its own waitlist? And why would a kid who was accepted and committed to VT expect to go somewhere else? This is VT's problem. |
Anonymous
Two years ago, UC Davis rescinded 500 admissions offers, half for poor year-end grades. A known policy for all schools that’s rarely utilized. |
Anonymous
| I'm a parent of a current freshman and I think Tech will do just fine next year. While it sounds like a lot in real terms, in relative terms it's not that bad and they will find a way to absorb it. My DC is in a program that requires two years in the dorms and it's really not something that worries me. With respect to number of applicants, they did go down by approximately 3%. But, Tech switched from it's own application to the Coalition App this year. So, the numbers aren't directly comparable. |
Anonymous
You would expect them to go up after that switch! But I think the admissions game is just really hard under changing higher ed conditions, and VT isn't particularly good at it. I think the narrative is more that last year they had more applications than expected, but lower yield than expected so they undershot their numbers. This year they had a little fewer applications than expected (though still a healthy amount), but higher yield than expected and they overshot their numbers. They need to use their waitlist a little smarter and err on the side of accepting fewer but putting more on the waitlist and then right on May 2 having all hands on deck to work the waitlist. In terms of their popularity, VT has had a steady stream of increases until this year that are fairly typical of the increases seen at the VA public schools--not any skyrocketing interest or precipitous decline. This really has to do more with demographics of the state--we'll likely see some easing up in the undergrad capacity issues in these schools as there's a demographic shift to fewer college-aged students in VA in coming years. |
Anonymous
Until you get the call, that those have been waived and she needs to found housing. I would be looking now. Sophomores are most at risk, not incoming freshman. Also, apps should have gone way up with the coalition app, not down. Your comment makes no sense. |
Anonymous
I see that happening here for sure. The town is going nuts. This is not an urban campus where you can find apartment complexes or put kids in hotels. They have to get rid of some of these kids |
Anonymous
What I find shocking is how many kids that get accepted to Tech have never even had pre-calc. I mean this is a tech school and there are 18 years old going in without an ounce of even pre-calc? So many on CC are talking about should they take pre-calc at CC this summer, what is math emporium like, can I start in Calc without pre-calc kinda thing. I mean why are they accepting that caliber of kids there. I know they have a high admission rate, but people always said it was high caliber kids applying. I am not buying that anymore |
Anonymous
I know! It's funny how the norms vary so much by immediate location. My kid who is doing well in Calc his senior year in the context of taking the most rigorous courses in other areas, and has a 720 SAT score in math without prep, viewed himself as not a VT kind of kid because he's not "math-y" because other kids were more advanced in math (he was deciding between JMU and VT for his "safety" and this was his rationale). Meanwhile in some other parts of Virginia, kids not even having taken pre-calc think they are good matches. I know NOVA is a bubble, but I didn't realize how much of one--and I also didn't realize how much it limits our kids' perceptions of themselves. My kid who could succeed in any reasonable engineering program with his abilities/background if he wanted --basically sees that as clearly not a real option. It's not that I want him to be an engineer, but your immediate context shapes what you think you are good at, prepared for etc and I think being around such high achieving norms can tilt your conceptions and in strange ways limits your perceptions of opportunities. |
Anonymous
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Only 30% of VT's students are engineering...there are a ton of other majors (albeit a good amount are still hard sciences).
Also remember that a lot of other areas of the state are not as rigorous in high school, but are still allotted spots. Northern VA kids are (in general) more advanced coming in. |
Anonymous
It is a math/science/engineering school. Having Algebra 2 as your highest math Senior year is going to get you another year of tuition at a school like this. |
Anonymous
But it’s really not. There are significantly more students majoring in other subjects than there are STEM subjects. Don’t let the name fool you. |
Anonymous
I would agree if it was the Common App. But, the Coalition App is still kind of an odd animal based on what I saw from folks trying to complete it this year. Upperclassman have already picked out specific rooms for next year. While they may let them out of the program and the commitment to the 2nd year in the dorm, I seriously doubt they will take away the room. |
Anonymous
Or consider the whole name: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Anonymous
You haven't looked into what other schools have done then, have you? I would start if I were you. |