VA Tech
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Anonymous
+1 Engineering and Business turn down a lot of very good students |
Anonymous
Why is the overall acceptance rate over 60%? Does any other major university have such a gap between a handful of majors and everyone else? It just doesn’t make sense. |
Anonymous
It’s not. As stated upthread (and cited!) in-state acceptance is 47%. According to VT itself, overall acceptance was 54.8% for most recent data. VA generally & VT specifically put out very detailed data. Google is your friend, y’all https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#university You can look for acceptance data by major, college & departments filtered on demographics |
Anonymous
Is there an out of state yield problem? Strange that OOS has a higher acceptance rate. Normally it’s the opposite and in this cause it’s hurting their selectivity. |
Anonymous
VT is relatively expensive for OOS and doesn't give merit. There are plenty of similar big football type universities that will beat it on price for OOS students |
Anonymous
When you look at the data you see that VT's engineering school is about 50% in -state with the rest OOS and international. I interpret this to mean that VT has to rely on it's engineering school to generate the OOS tuition it needs to survive. VT also has a higher and sometimes significantly higher OOS acceptance rate for engineering, so in-state kids are at a disadvantage, which i find problematic for a state school. |
Anonymous
Correct. Cousin go zero money from VT so she’s headed to Pitt where she got need and merit money. Plus they were so late with their EA acceptances last year that she almost forgot about them! |
Anonymous
That data are also provided in the link above. Like most public universities, VT’s OOS yield is much lower than in-state due, in many cases, to large cost difference |
Anonymous
Once again - the overall acceptance rate is 57%. The in-state rate is 47%. Why do you keep repeating misinformation? https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/virginia-tech-3754 https://research.schev.edu/iProfile/233921/Virginia-Tech |
Anonymous
Hard to say.. My DC 1 (just graduated from a T10) did not get in with a 4.5ish WGPA (I think 3.95ish UW)/1600 SAT from TJ, yet got in to a bunch of much higher ranked schools including UVA. DC 2 (last year) 1530 SAT but way lower GPA (closer to 3.0 UW) and NMS commended got in. Clearly Tech yield protects (others would say yield manages.. same, same). I suspect that if you look like a likely commit but with stats in the upper end (e.g. Non TJ, 4.4 WGPA, NMSF, 1530+ SAT, etc). you may be a candidate that likely won't get into a T10 so Tech wants you. You may be able to treat Tech as a safety. Lots of people here bristle at the suggestion that Tech yield protects or can be anyone's safety. It does, it is. You just need to know the circumstances. |
Anonymous
I think a lot of publics do. UCs, with the exceptions of Merced, Santa Cruz and Riverside, don’t have the admission rate of VT, but have large gaps between Business, Engineering, CS and non-STEM majors. |
Anonymous
| The data are out there posted by VT by year, by major, in state, out-of-state, etc. In state acceptance rate for 2024-25 school year was 47.7%, OOS was 59%, with overall acceptance rate of 54.8%. That's based on 52k applications received for 24-25 school year. VT received 57.6k applications for 25-26 school year so acceptance rate will go down. |
Anonymous
| Does VA Tech superscore SAT? Can't see any mention on their webpage and STARS requires entering both sections of SAT for each sitting reported |
Anonymous
| VT does superstore. The admissions officer we emailed was very transparent for engineering. He basically said you don’t have to submit scores but many students do. But don’t bother submitting (for engineering) if you have less than a 1460 combined with at least a 710 math. My kid is applying and submitting his scores which are not in that high but close. Honestly, I’d rather him not go that school and go to a less “weed out” college so I didn’t push back at all when he said he wanted to submit his scores. There are other schools he is applying to that I think would be a better fit where he has a better chance of getting in |
Anonymous
Of course it makes sense. It’s a tech school. It excels at engineering and mathematics, not soft humanities. Would you go to Georgia Tech for a history degree? No, you would not. But GT (also public and a tech school) does have a small history department |