Va Tech Engineering

[Anonymous]

What GPA (weighted) and SAT scores do you need to get into Va Tech Engineering from FCPS high schools like McLean, Langley, Madison, Oakton or Woodson? Naviance only lists the scores for everyone and I know Engineering is a harder college to gain acceptance.

Anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What GPA (weighted) and SAT scores do you need to get into Va Tech Engineering from FCPS high schools like McLean, Langley, Madison, Oakton or Woodson? Naviance only lists the scores for everyone and I know Engineering is a harder college to gain acceptance.

Anyone?

Will have AP Calc, AP Stats, AP Chem and AP Physics C, plus the three AP History courses. Better grades in math and science. Spanish and English lower the GPA.

[Anonymous]

VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

[Anonymous]

Alternatively, you can apply to other engineering schools.

Colorado School of Mines and Missouri Science & Technology and Louisiana Tech are all roughly about the same price range as in-state at V Tech, and will land kids jobs after they graduate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

side question - my son is a sophomore so we're just checking out the college landscape right now. do colleges use the weighted GPA over the unweighted GPA these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

side question - my son is a sophomore so we're just checking out the college landscape right now. do colleges use the weighted GPA over the unweighted GPA these days?

Some high schools don't weight. Most (if not all) colleges take into account the grading scale of each individual school when considering applicants.

For example, my high school had a 10-point grading scale, 90-100 A, 80-89 B, 70-79 C and so on, but I found out that many schools have a 7 or 8 point grading scale, 92-100 A, 84-91 B or whatever. The admissions committee factors this in when they consider an applicant. Same would go for whether the applicant has a weighted or unweighted GPA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

Thanks, his GPA is in the lower range of that (estimate will be 3.90-3.95 at end of Junior year), but his 1600 SAT is much higher (~1450 with math being very high and could be closer to 1500 if he ups his critical reading which was lower than expectation). So, I hope he has a decent chance next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

side question - my son is a sophomore so we're just checking out the college landscape right now. do colleges use the weighted GPA over the unweighted GPA these days?

Some high schools don't weight. Most (if not all) colleges take into account the grading scale of each individual school when considering applicants.

For example, my high school had a 10-point grading scale, 90-100 A, 80-89 B, 70-79 C and so on, but I found out that many schools have a 7 or 8 point grading scale, 92-100 A, 84-91 B or whatever. The admissions committee factors this in when they consider an applicant. Same would go for whether the applicant has a weighted or unweighted GPA.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Remember Va Tech takes something like 70% of applicants.

[Anonymous]

How the heck does a kid get a 4.23 GPA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

Thanks, his GPA is in the lower range of that (estimate will be 3.90-3.95 at end of Junior year), but his 1600 SAT is much higher (~1450 with math being very high and could be closer to 1500 if he ups his critical reading which was lower than expectation). So, I hope he has a decent chance next year.

I would be shocked if he didn't get n.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

Not sure how you could transfer into an engineering program you couldn't get into the first time unless you retake some of the basics and get very good grades. Also, some of the more intense disciplines like chemical and electrical are very regimented and have much of the coursework already chosen from freshman through senior year. So the colleges don't like students to change majors beyond the first semester or second quarter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

Thanks, his GPA is in the lower range of that (estimate will be 3.90-3.95 at end of Junior year), but his 1600 SAT is much higher (~1450 with math being very high and could be closer to 1500 if he ups his critical reading which was lower than expectation). So, I hope he has a decent chance next year.

I would be shocked if he didn't get n.

Just found some stats. The GPA would be very slightly below average and the SAT would be at least 150 points above average.

http://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/2011%2520-%25202012%2520Info%2520Session%2520Condensed.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

Thanks, his GPA is in the lower range of that (estimate will be 3.90-3.95 at end of Junior year), but his 1600 SAT is much higher (~1450 with math being very high and could be closer to 1500 if he ups his critical reading which was lower than expectation). So, I hope he has a decent chance next year.

I would be shocked if he didn't get n.

Just found some stats. The GPA would be very slightly below average and the SAT would be at least 150 points above average.

http://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/2011%2520-%25202012%2520Info%2520Session%2520Condensed.pdf

Try the link again: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&q=average%20sat%20for%20virginia%20tech%20engineering&ei=xg06U5PZH7OwsQSuXA&url=http://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/2011%2520-%25202012%2520Info%2520Session%2520Condensed.pdf&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHUjHLOsJ8yp5X1yfg15Ve2tPCasg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VT doesn't post scores for individual majors, but it IS more difficult to get in as an engineer major than most other majors. If you kid isn't in VT's range (3.78-4.23 GPA, 1160-1340 SAT for c/o 2017) I'd advise applying under something easier like sociology or undecided (university studies) and transferring into engineering. It is much easier to do this and I have a lot of friends who did this when I was at VT.

At orientation, they will set you up with a schedule based on your chosen major, but you can easily look up the general engineering courses (everyone in engineering is general until after freshman year when they choose a discipline) and drop/add into those courses after orientation. You'll need department approval for the ENGR department courses, but this happens often.

Thanks, his GPA is in the lower range of that (estimate will be 3.90-3.95 at end of Junior year), but his 1600 SAT is much higher (~1450 with math being very high and could be closer to 1500 if he ups his critical reading which was lower than expectation). So, I hope he has a decent chance next year.

I would be shocked if he didn't get n.

Just found some stats. The GPA would be very slightly below average and the SAT would be at least 150 points above average.

http://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/2011%2520-%25202012%2520Info%2520Session%2520Condensed.pdf

Try the link again: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&q=average%20sat%20for%20virginia%20tech%20engineering&ei=xg06U5PZH7OwsQSuXA&url=http://www.eng.vt.edu/sites/default/files/pageattachments/2011%2520-%25202012%2520Info%2520Session%2520Condensed.pdf&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHUjHLOsJ8yp5X1yfg15Ve2tPCasg

Ouch! that horrible color scheme alone would send me running to Penn State!