Virginia Tech offering incoming freshman $1000 not to come

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Anonymous wrote:Their acceptance rate will be below 55% next year, guaranteed.

Calm down. It is still a sub par school. They are just admitting more poor people on pell grants.

Stop it. You sound crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are creative and appealing offers- saves a significant amount of a 4 year degree.

$1000/year is a significant savings? Tuition is $23,000.

The community college credit would save quite a bit of money.

so does just going to community college... they should offer special housing. The point is to make friends and connections.

They would attend community college for a year, get transfer credit for the classes AND they would get credit in the amount spent on the community college off of their sophomore year tuition at Tech.

That is a good deal.

For parents. Not for the kids who want the freshman experience

No, it's a good financial deal for the students who won't be burdened by excessive loans or will have money left over for grad school or another degree. The traditional "freshman experience" at Tech is no longer guaranteed. But a larger number of students will at least get a taste of what it means to be a Hokie.

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Yuck. I can't imagine turning down other schools based on a VT acceptance and then face this.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad my son wasn't accepted. Dodged a bullet there.

It appears he was the only one who wasn't accepted!

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I'm assuming that these terms aren't being offered to athletic recruits?

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Anyone heading there for engineering is exposing themselves to substantial risk.

I bet anything they won't be increasing sophomore spots.

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Even staff at VTech admit this is embarrassing.

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Seniors applying for Fall 2020 are screwed.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad my son wasn't accepted. Dodged a bullet there.

My son also. We were talking about this at dinner and at first he was full of faux outrage: "They took too many people and they still couldn't take me?" I told him his denial was the universe looking out for him.

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From the head of Virginia Tech’s Aerospace Engineering Department on Twitter:

“While some schools struggle with enrollment, we have the opposite problem at Virginia Tech.Target freshman enrollment in Engineering was 2060, but 2700 have accepted for Fall 2019 with 350 wanting Aerospace Engineering.”

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone heading there for engineering is exposing themselves to substantial risk.

I bet anything they won't be increasing sophomore spots.

Re the risk do you mean they will be weeding more of the freshman out of the school of engineering?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone heading there for engineering is exposing themselves to substantial risk.

I bet anything they won't be increasing sophomore spots.

Re the risk do you mean they will be weeding more of the freshman out of the school of engineering?

NP: yes. This is the risk you take at VT.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone heading there for engineering is exposing themselves to substantial risk.

I bet anything they won't be increasing sophomore spots.

Re the risk do you mean they will be weeding more of the freshman out of the school of engineering?

Do the math: if they traditionally have had the ratio they want and now we increase the denominator and not the numerator, what do you think is going to happen?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone heading there for engineering is exposing themselves to substantial risk.

I bet anything they won't be increasing sophomore spots.

Re the risk do you mean they will be weeding more of the freshman out of the school of engineering?

NP: yes. This is the risk you take at VT.

It had a reputation/tradition of being a weedout school before this.

There are pros and cons of that strategy of engineering education, that I don't want to debate, but attending when the numbers don't match expectations... take your dollars elsewhere! Go on a gap year!

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Anonymous wrote:Yuck. I can't imagine turning down other schools based on a VT acceptance and then face this.

TRUE! lol