VA Tech

[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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I am the pp with a 4.1 kid waitlisted. We put in all their stats it asked for, racial background, sex, exact major applied to, etc on the very detailed site VT has. it showed a 65+ acceptance rate. I think it was like 68%.

I will be curious to see that after it updates for this year.

I do think a big factor is that they are looking for first gen to make up a very large part of the class.

[Anonymous]

If you look at the CDS for 2024-2025 you'll see that VT still enrolls a large number of students below 3.5 GPA. I'm assuming these students are in less popular or rigorous majors, but I don't have the data to back that up.

Specifically for 2024-2025, 6% of enrolled students have a WGPA below 3.5 (VT reports weighted GPA when available), with 16% of enrolled students falling below 3.75. VT enrolled 7,289 students, so 437 had less than a 3.5 GPA and 1,166 had less than a 3.75 GPA. And yes, I posted part of this on the other active VT thread.

[Anonymous]

My OOS kid got into VATech with a 4.7 GPA and 13 APs. She got turned down UVA and UNC and JMU did not even offer aid.

Her friends who got in good schools had a minimum of 4.8. UMD also turned her down.

She had tons of ECs. Competition was fierce this year as 2007 peak birth year. In two years will be much easy as hardly any babies born in 2009.

She is going VT in honors. VT can get 4.5 to 4.75 GPA all day long OOS. Their rankings are rising

Binghamton and UDELL good choices at 4-4.5 GPAs as let you in and good merit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you look at the CDS for 2024-2025 you'll see that VT still enrolls a large number of students below 3.5 GPA. I'm assuming these students are in less popular or rigorous majors, but I don't have the data to back that up.

Specifically for 2024-2025, 6% of enrolled students have a WGPA below 3.5 (VT reports weighted GPA when available), with 16% of enrolled students falling below 3.75. VT enrolled 7,289 students, so 437 had less than a 3.5 GPA and 1,166 had less than a 3.75 GPA. And yes, I posted part of this on the other active VT thread.

Old Data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS applied with a weighted 4.0 and test optional. He was initially wait listed but was accepted a few weeks later. He isn't going there, though, because of the high cost for out of state students.

It’s affordable for OOS less than Penn, Pitt