VaTech average SAT for engineering

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Anonymous wrote:Does any one know if they provide merit or any adjustments for OOS engineering?

Very very little. My c/o 2022 engineering student got 3K which was the least from any school that gave her merit. That's the most I've heard for engineering OOS students. Once they've declared their engineering major though, they can get departmental scholarships. She got $7K last year and $10K this coming year from her Dept.

Kids in other majors can get more (my incoming hokie majoring in Bio got $4800 and a colleague's daughter was offered $7200 (HNFE major)).

Don't count on much!

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Anonymous wrote:Does any one know if they provide merit or any adjustments for OOS engineering?

Very very little. My c/o 2022 engineering student got 3K which was the least from any school that gave her merit. That's the most I've heard for engineering OOS students. Once they've declared their engineering major though, they can get departmental scholarships. She got $7K last year and $10K this coming year from her Dept.

Kids in other majors can get more (my incoming hokie majoring in Bio got $4800 and a colleague's daughter was offered $7200 (HNFE major)).

Don't count on much!

I agree. Our cousin is OOS and got very little money- while other schools did throw her aide. My in state kid got $800 from the math department and $2000 from the physics department this year so if they do well they can get money later.

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Anonymous wrote:VT 2019: The 25th percentile SAT score is 1240, and the 75th percentile SAT score is 1420.

Averages and percentiles mean nothing in TO era

What does 2019 have to do with 2025?

Last year before TO so scores probably representative of actual current scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Average math for matriculated engineering students at VT has been hovering around 700 for a few years. It is not likely changing. It is not a difficult admit and is a backup school for our magnet public. The average SAT math within the magnet is 720 and naviance shows around- average -gpa kids get in. The top 1/3 all gun for ivies, hopkins, UCB, michigan, GT. Most get into at least one that is better than VT engineering, judging student quality not USNews engineering ranking which is not about quality. Engineering, CS, math and maybe premed is all anyone wants to do from our school these days. They just do not want VT because it is not seen as where smart kids go. It is sad but just reality from the instate top public high schools

My 2024 grad had a 1510 SAT, 4.2, 10 plus APs and was waitlisted > rejected from VT engineering.

FCPS top 10 jigh school.

4.2 with that many APs? Suggests more A-rather than A in several classes throughout the years.

Agree 4.2 W is around average at many high schools in Virginia. Average is rarely good enough for VT engineering unless it is a top feeder private. Our stem magnet sends many in the 4.3.4.5 range to VT. Scoir shows they do not get in to ivies or top publics for engineering. The top 10% cutoff is usually 4.8+ and they go to ivy+ or michigan or UCB as a backup. Parents on dcum need to look around at scoir or listen to deanJ and others: gpa is quite inflated at Virginia schools, with many having 3/4 of the graduates above a 4.0W. It comes down to course difficulty and relative rank compared to the peers in the high school. At some high schools VT accepts from the top half, for others it us from the top 15%. Uva also takes a higher % from the stronger high schools.
Ask the school for VT acceptance data.

This clown is my favorite VT troll. Reading their two posts together (which isn't easy, BTW), VT is supposedly for average or below-average students from their kid's magnet, yet somehow a reach for students from regular public schools.

The real truth about VT is simple: lots of average kids get admitted with less than stellar grades, but it's heavily dependent on their intended major and which high school they attended. Whether by design or not, VT just isn't going to take every qualified kid from NOVA.

DP. Just a quibble re: the bolded. This really isn't true. There are not a lot of "average" kids at VT, and certainly not with less than stellar grades.

I wasn't trying to knock VT here. My point is that 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.

I have to wonder what school your kid attends! Naviance at our FCPS public starts around 3.7 and goes straight up from there. SATs start around 1300 with most being far higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Average math for matriculated engineering students at VT has been hovering around 700 for a few years. It is not likely changing. It is not a difficult admit and is a backup school for our magnet public. The average SAT math within the magnet is 720 and naviance shows around- average -gpa kids get in. The top 1/3 all gun for ivies, hopkins, UCB, michigan, GT. Most get into at least one that is better than VT engineering, judging student quality not USNews engineering ranking which is not about quality. Engineering, CS, math and maybe premed is all anyone wants to do from our school these days. They just do not want VT because it is not seen as where smart kids go. It is sad but just reality from the instate top public high schools

My 2024 grad had a 1510 SAT, 4.2, 10 plus APs and was waitlisted > rejected from VT engineering.

FCPS top 10 jigh school.

4.2 with that many APs? Suggests more A-rather than A in several classes throughout the years.

Agree 4.2 W is around average at many high schools in Virginia. Average is rarely good enough for VT engineering unless it is a top feeder private. Our stem magnet sends many in the 4.3.4.5 range to VT. Scoir shows they do not get in to ivies or top publics for engineering. The top 10% cutoff is usually 4.8+ and they go to ivy+ or michigan or UCB as a backup. Parents on dcum need to look around at scoir or listen to deanJ and others: gpa is quite inflated at Virginia schools, with many having 3/4 of the graduates above a 4.0W. It comes down to course difficulty and relative rank compared to the peers in the high school. At some high schools VT accepts from the top half, for others it us from the top 15%. Uva also takes a higher % from the stronger high schools.
Ask the school for VT acceptance data.

This clown is my favorite VT troll. Reading their two posts together (which isn't easy, BTW), VT is supposedly for average or below-average students from their kid's magnet, yet somehow a reach for students from regular public schools.

The real truth about VT is simple: lots of average kids get admitted with less than stellar grades, but it's heavily dependent on their intended major and which high school they attended. Whether by design or not, VT just isn't going to take every qualified kid from NOVA.

DP. Just a quibble re: the bolded. This really isn't true. There are not a lot of "average" kids at VT, and certainly not with less than stellar grades.

I wasn't trying to knock VT here. My point is that 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.

Maybe this was true 30 years ago. Not in this century.

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Anonymous wrote:Average math for matriculated engineering students at VT has been hovering around 700 for a few years. It is not likely changing. It is not a difficult admit and is a backup school for our magnet public. The average SAT math within the magnet is 720 and naviance shows around- average -gpa kids get in. The top 1/3 all gun for ivies, hopkins, UCB, michigan, GT. Most get into at least one that is better than VT engineering, judging student quality not USNews engineering ranking which is not about quality. Engineering, CS, math and maybe premed is all anyone wants to do from our school these days. They just do not want VT because it is not seen as where smart kids go. It is sad but just reality from the instate top public high schools

My 2024 grad had a 1510 SAT, 4.2, 10 plus APs and was waitlisted > rejected from VT engineering.

FCPS top 10 jigh school.

4.2 with that many APs? Suggests more A-rather than A in several classes throughout the years.

Agree 4.2 W is around average at many high schools in Virginia. Average is rarely good enough for VT engineering unless it is a top feeder private. Our stem magnet sends many in the 4.3.4.5 range to VT. Scoir shows they do not get in to ivies or top publics for engineering. The top 10% cutoff is usually 4.8+ and they go to ivy+ or michigan or UCB as a backup. Parents on dcum need to look around at scoir or listen to deanJ and others: gpa is quite inflated at Virginia schools, with many having 3/4 of the graduates above a 4.0W. It comes down to course difficulty and relative rank compared to the peers in the high school. At some high schools VT accepts from the top half, for others it us from the top 15%. Uva also takes a higher % from the stronger high schools.
Ask the school for VT acceptance data.

This clown is my favorite VT troll. Reading their two posts together (which isn't easy, BTW), VT is supposedly for average or below-average students from their kid's magnet, yet somehow a reach for students from regular public schools.

The real truth about VT is simple: lots of average kids get admitted with less than stellar grades, but it's heavily dependent on their intended major and which high school they attended. Whether by design or not, VT just isn't going to take every qualified kid from NOVA.

DP. Just a quibble re: the bolded. This really isn't true. There are not a lot of "average" kids at VT, and certainly not with less than stellar grades.

I wasn't trying to knock VT here. My point is that 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.

Maybe this was true 30 years ago. Not in this century.

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The PP is a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:Average math for matriculated engineering students at VT has been hovering around 700 for a few years. It is not likely changing. It is not a difficult admit and is a backup school for our magnet public. The average SAT math within the magnet is 720 and naviance shows around- average -gpa kids get in. The top 1/3 all gun for ivies, hopkins, UCB, michigan, GT. Most get into at least one that is better than VT engineering, judging student quality not USNews engineering ranking which is not about quality. Engineering, CS, math and maybe premed is all anyone wants to do from our school these days. They just do not want VT because it is not seen as where smart kids go. It is sad but just reality from the instate top public high schools

My 2024 grad had a 1510 SAT, 4.2, 10 plus APs and was waitlisted > rejected from VT engineering.

FCPS top 10 jigh school.

4.2 with that many APs? Suggests more A-rather than A in several classes throughout the years.

Agree 4.2 W is around average at many high schools in Virginia. Average is rarely good enough for VT engineering unless it is a top feeder private. Our stem magnet sends many in the 4.3.4.5 range to VT. Scoir shows they do not get in to ivies or top publics for engineering. The top 10% cutoff is usually 4.8+ and they go to ivy+ or michigan or UCB as a backup. Parents on dcum need to look around at scoir or listen to deanJ and others: gpa is quite inflated at Virginia schools, with many having 3/4 of the graduates above a 4.0W. It comes down to course difficulty and relative rank compared to the peers in the high school. At some high schools VT accepts from the top half, for others it us from the top 15%. Uva also takes a higher % from the stronger high schools.
Ask the school for VT acceptance data.

This clown is my favorite VT troll. Reading their two posts together (which isn't easy, BTW), VT is supposedly for average or below-average students from their kid's magnet, yet somehow a reach for students from regular public schools.

The real truth about VT is simple: lots of average kids get admitted with less than stellar grades, but it's heavily dependent on their intended major and which high school they attended. Whether by design or not, VT just isn't going to take every qualified kid from NOVA.

DP. Just a quibble re: the bolded. This really isn't true. There are not a lot of "average" kids at VT, and certainly not with less than stellar grades.

I wasn't trying to knock VT here. My point is that 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.

Maybe this was true 30 years ago. Not in this century.

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The PP is a troll.

I'm not trolling, and I'll explain why my post is credible. Look at VT's Common Data Set (CDS). 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.

My child attends one of Virginia's top schools with approximately 250 applications to VT annually, which is a substantial sample size. It stands to reason that VT would accept some, and possibly a higher percentage of, lower GPA students from academically rigorous schools. These students have to come from somewhere. Regarding the 1000 SAT score: when I examine any school in my child's Naviance data, there are occasionally surprisingly low SAT scores for admitted students, even at Ivies. I assume these students went test optional (TO), but those scores still exist.

What can we learn from publicly available CDS data that supports my post about VT admits in the 3.5 WGPA range? For 2024-2025, 437 enrolled VT students had high school WGPAs below 3.5, making it entirely credible that some could come from my child's school. Honestly, my statement would have been credible even if I'd said admitted students from my child's high school start at 3.0 WGPA, since VT reports that 2% of enrolled students (145 students) had WGPAs in that range.

Some will argue that unweighted GPAs are mixed into these figures, which is true. Regardless, GPAs below 3.5 aren't stellar. While the percentage isn't massive, substantial numbers of students attend VT despite not being strong high school performers. VT also reports that fewer than 50% of students submit test scores.

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Anonymous wrote:At my kid's top FCPS high school, VT is not an easy admit for engineering or business. Some other majors, such as math, admit at significantly higher rates.

My 2025 grad was waitlisted for engineering, and we know many kids who were waitlisted for business. The kids I know were all admitted into better or higher-ranked programs at other colleges. The only rejection my kid received was the waitlist from VT, and they are off to a top 10 engineering school, without engineering ECs, by the way.

I would submit your kid's test scores. The math is solid for engineering, confirming math readiness.

Bottom line: if your kid is truly a competitive applicant for engineering at VT, then they will have some terrific options elsewhere, and you will be able to get merit aid at private and public schools that will bring the cost in line with VT. I'm sure that the 1510/4.2 kid mentioned above is at a terrific school as well.

Wonder if your kid went to a lesser ranked HS, would he have gotten in.