VA Tech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3.2 gpa and 1590 SAT, got in no problem

How did he prep for the SAT? 1590 implies he's not a slacker; combined with a 3.2 to me implies that he is not a test taker;

So what he do to prep for the SAT? and good job BTW.

You're responding to a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What GPA has you child gotten into that you were surprised of, considering their low GPA ?

Ds has a very rigorous course load with Dual enrollment, and is going to a magnet school.
I am asking be there are tons of smart kids, and wanted to see where he would stand.
The gpa requirement says 3.0. and above.
His is 4.2 weighted.
He is in Varsity Track and not much else.
Thanks

often contradictory depending on the high school, DE is considered less rigorous than AP options but may not matter for VT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.

Using numbers from the 24-25 Common Data set, the in state admit rate was around 47.7%. It was 59.1% for OOS, and 66.0% for international students.

I know a lot of FCPS kids with 4.0+ GPAs, decent test scores, community service hours, and solid ECs who got wait-listed or even flat out denied this year.

True, but the context is important: many public schools in Fairfax county as well as other UMC areas of Virginia have GPA distributions such that 60-80% of the senior class has above 4.0W. 4.1-4.3 is a very common median Weighted GPA in our state. Virginia Tech is not as selective as a T20 but it most certainly is selective and does not admit students around the median GPA unless it is an extremely rigorous private or one of the STEM-focused top public magnets, and even then typically one needs to be top third or close. From a typical FCPS school VT takes from the top 20% and UVA from the top 10%. 4.2W is not going to come close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.

Using numbers from the 24-25 Common Data set, the in state admit rate was around 47.7%. It was 59.1% for OOS, and 66.0% for international students.

I know a lot of FCPS kids with 4.0+ GPAs, decent test scores, community service hours, and solid ECs who got wait-listed or even flat out denied this year.

True, but the context is important: many public schools in Fairfax county as well as other UMC areas of Virginia have GPA distributions such that 60-80% of the senior class has above 4.0W. 4.1-4.3 is a very common median Weighted GPA in our state. Virginia Tech is not as selective as a T20 but it most certainly is selective and does not admit students around the median GPA unless it is an extremely rigorous private or one of the STEM-focused top public magnets, and even then typically one needs to be top third or close. From a typical FCPS school VT takes from the top 20% and UVA from the top 10%. 4.2W is not going to come close.

I disagree that it takes a 4.2 weighted GPA. I posted this in the other active VT thread. VT is a large public university that admits a lot of kids across the state. I only need to look at my kid's FCPS Naviance to see the test scores and GPAs of students admitted to VT. At my kid's school VT admits start at 3.5 WPGA with SATs (probably TO) at a little over 1000. So yes, plenty of below average students from my kid's school are getting admitted to VT. I'm sure for the most part these kids are not being admitted to engineering or business, but they are still students at VT.

[Anonymous]

My kid had 10 AP. 4.1, tons and tons of volunteering, quality leadership, state competitions, 4 year varsity sports, TO, employment, spent very much time and effort on the essays that are difficult to answer. Business. Waitlisted, still not in now.

If you look at naviance for our school for prior years would thought would be in especially since not engineering.

It is very disappointing to me that they didn't get in. Did not want JMU, so will now go oos to a school with a 25% OOS acceptance rate. But as a FFX taxpayer I am grumpy. We didn't treat it as a safety, but I cannot believe they didn't get in.

[Anonymous]

My DS was rejected in 2023 with high stats from FCPS. I believe the previous poster.

[Anonymous]

It’s also unpredictable because they have a first generation college student goal of 40%, that they’ve hit every year since 2022. Naviance doesn’t track whether you’re a first generation student or not.

If you filter by major on first generation student and the stats by major given by Virginia Tech, you can definitely see some revealing trends. In short, it definitely disadvantages many of the northern Virginia students because they’re more likely to have college educated parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s also unpredictable because they have a first generation college student goal of 40%, that they’ve hit every year since 2022. Naviance doesn’t track whether you’re a first generation student or not.

If you filter by major on first generation student and the stats by major given by Virginia Tech, you can definitely see some revealing trends. In short, it definitely disadvantages many of the northern Virginia students because they’re more likely to have college educated parents.

I’m the pp whose DS was rejected in 2023. I didn’t mention that DW and I are alums. I think VT is looking for 1st Gen students above all.

[Anonymous]

Op here,

What I am gathering here is that VT is unpredictable. it also it seems
like CS applicants are the ones having hard time getting admitted.
It definitely is the second choice among in VA in state applicants and … there are thousands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

What I am gathering here is that VT is unpredictable. it also it seems
like CS applicants are the ones having hard time getting admitted.
It definitely is the second choice among in VA in state applicants and … there are thousands.

Second choice? It’s the first choice among tons of applicants. Which is why they need to reinstate ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid had 10 AP. 4.1, tons and tons of volunteering, quality leadership, state competitions, 4 year varsity sports, TO, employment, spent very much time and effort on the essays that are difficult to answer. Business. Waitlisted, still not in now.

If you look at naviance for our school for prior years would thought would be in especially since not engineering.

It is very disappointing to me that they didn't get in. Did not want JMU, so will now go oos to a school with a 25% OOS acceptance rate. But as a FFX taxpayer I am grumpy. We didn't treat it as a safety, but I cannot believe they didn't get in.

He should have picked a different major for VA Tech.

[Anonymous]

Does he have an interest in Corps of Cadets? (There is a Corps path with no military service requirement.) It doesn't make admission easier per se, but they do take different things into consideration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

What I am gathering here is that VT is unpredictable. it also it seems
like CS applicants are the ones having hard time getting admitted.
It definitely is the second choice among in VA in state applicants and … there are thousands.

Second choice? It’s the first choice among tons of applicants. Which is why they need to reinstate ED.

Op here
Actually its first choice for ds.

[Anonymous]

Different poster but agree it’s based on major. Apply to something easy like Art History and you’ll get in with a decent GPA and volunteer/work history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Different poster but agree it’s based on major. Apply to something easy like Art History and you’ll get in with a decent GPA and volunteer/work history.

The caveat with that is that if you ultimately want CS/engineering/business you are unlikely to be able to transfer into those majors. However, you could major in...

Economics (college of science) instead of business. That has a 64% admit rate for In-state/not URM/not Pell vs 40% for Pamplin

Computational Modeling and Data Analytics (CMDA) aka data science (college of science) instead of CS. That has a 68% admit rate for In-state/not URM/not Pell. Many of those students minor in or double major in CS.