VA Tech Engineering if less than 4.0uw

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Anonymous wrote:According to Virginia Tech's engineering page, the average SAT for math for engineering students was 689. They didn't publish the median, but even still, if your child is in the top 10% of their class in Virgina, and gets that SAT score, Va Tech is an easy admit, even for engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The average WEIGHTED GPA of a freshman enigneering student is 4.26.

The average SAT Math of a freshman engineering student is 690.

With AP and Honors classes, having a 4.26 is not uncommon.

Most high schools in Fairfax County have 25% of their class above a 4.0

THIS. 690 as an AVG SAT math come on. VT is not a top engineering program for the best and brightest. They take plenty of above average kids. 4.26 weighted with standard weighting in VA is the middle of the college-bound high schoolers, maybe slightly above. Dean J and others have gone on record that there are high schools in VA with OVER 70% of the graduating class with over 4. WEIGHTED. I know she is UVA, but it is true. Our median is 4.25-4.3, the HS across town with similar weighting is 4.1 median. These kids have 3.7-3.9 unweighted. These are typical suburban public schools where the VT admissions are from the top 3 deciles, a few are lower. The top group goes elsewhere. VT even for engineering is NOT a hard admit. UVA is harder, but still NOT a hard admit. MIT/Ivies/JHU/Northwestern/Duke are hard to get into for Engineering. That is where top Engineering talent in VA goes

Post is a bit pretentious but it is not wrong. I ran across this post yesterday and decided to look up the Rensselear medal winners and senior math and science or programming awards at our public science/technology magnet. Students from all over apply to be in this high school program, and almost always come from Gifted type middle school programs. A subset of them have state or national science and math awards. These students are top10% within the program and picked by teachers. Many are also Val/Sal. Generally they are thought of as the best by peers as well.
It is a 65% male academic magnet “center” within a large public high school. The last few yrs these top students have gone to UVA(2, both CS not engineering), Berkeley(ECEE), MIT(2) , Penn (Viper), Brown, Princeton, Stanford, CMU(3), Rice.

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^one is my DS, he did pick an ivy, but honestly he loved the idea of VT too, and would have been happy there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The average WEIGHTED GPA of a freshman enigneering student is 4.26.

The average SAT Math of a freshman engineering student is 690.

With AP and Honors classes, having a 4.26 is not uncommon.

Most high schools in Fairfax County have 25% of their class above a 4.0

THIS. 690 as an AVG SAT math come on. VT is not a top engineering program for the best and brightest. They take plenty of above average kids. 4.26 weighted with standard weighting in VA is the middle of the college-bound high schoolers, maybe slightly above. Dean J and others have gone on record that there are high schools in VA with OVER 70% of the graduating class with over 4. WEIGHTED. I know she is UVA, but it is true. Our median is 4.25-4.3, the HS across town with similar weighting is 4.1 median. These kids have 3.7-3.9 unweighted. These are typical suburban public schools where the VT admissions are from the top 3 deciles, a few are lower. The top group goes elsewhere. VT even for engineering is NOT a hard admit. UVA is harder, but still NOT a hard admit. MIT/Ivies/JHU/Northwestern/Duke are hard to get into for Engineering. That is where top Engineering talent in VA goes

Top engineering students don't pick Ivies, NW or Duke.
2025 USNWR Top undergraduate engineering programs
1. MIT
10. Cornell
12. Princeton
13. Hopkins
13. VT
16. Northwestern
20. Duke
20. Columbia
27. Harvard
27. Penn
35. Yale
43. Brown
51. Dartmouth

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