Virginia Tech SAT Scores
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Anonymous
The bolded is such utter BS, I don't even know where to begin. But do go on! - a TJ parent |
Anonymous
DP. I think it's safe to say that you are projecting. The vast majority of VT acceptances aren't going to first gen/URM, as you would have others believe. Some of you may have kids who were rejected, thus you think it's because of "recent admissions trends." Instead, it's most likely due to the fact that so many highly qualified kids apply, they simply can't take them all. None of the kids who were admitted from our high school were either first gen or URM. They were simply high stats, well-rounded kids. The more you repeat this, the more obvious it is you have a major case of sour grapes - and an axe to grind. |
Anonymous
You need to read more before spouting off. Start with the Chronicle of Higher Education. The President of Virginia Tech has been ver public about moving the school to 40% URM and first generation. There are only so many slots so when you make a shift like this someone isn’t going to get in. If you look at the numbers and even the fallout posted here, Reddit and College Confidential over the last two years you can see a noticeable drop off of top TJ students being passed over for URM snd first generation. Many of these students are from modest families in nova and needed those slots. VT also engaged in yield prop which UVA and others do not. This also hurts top performing students. The big question in higher Ed is whether or not the only polytechnic university in the state should be engaging in social engineering. I say not snd leave that to the privates. Meanwhile nova parents of tech kids have a lot to be concerned about. Go back and read “Virginia Tech Ed, EA and RD decisions” both here and in college confidential and Reddit. There is a distinct disturbing trend of passing over qualified high stats kids in the name of social engineering |
Anonymous
Except you don't actually know who was "passed over" in the name of social engineering. You simply don't. You can speculate all you want, but at the end of the day, your kid didn't get in. Perhaps there were others who were better qualified, regardless of their demographics. And btw - almost all good schools engage in yield protection. It's flat-out false to claim that UVA doesn't. Of course they do. They're all trying to get the best yield rate possible. 
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Anonymous
No axe to grind. Not a parent of an applicant. Just speculation/observation which seems to have rubbed some people the wrong way. Not a TJ family, but the number of TJ graduates attending Tech has steadily decreased from 38 in 2018, 16 in 2019 and 2020, 2021 n/a and 7 from class of 2022. In-state engineering admission rate last year was 44% while OOS was 60%. It just all seems strange. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
You are hopelessly out of touch! |
Anonymous
No one is making snide comments. They are stating fact. Virginia Tech’s President, Timothy Sands, has been on a well published role on making Virginia Tech more than 40 percent URM/first-generation. See here. https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/09/admissions-fall-census-2022.html. Many in the college admissions field have wondered if this is a proper role for the only public polytechnic school in the Commonwealth. Most say it’s fine for privates to engage in social engineering of incoming classes but not the only polytechnic which many Virginia families need in these tough economic times. If you go back and read the Virginia Tech ED, EA and RD results here and in College Confidential and Reddit you will see many very high stats kids - who would have gotten in to VT before Sands took over - were waitlisted or rejected. This was especially apparent amongst the TJ classes. A lot has been written on this in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Combine this initiative along with the fact that Tech practices yield discrimination and the fact that more OOS students than Virginians get the coveted engineer problem and you will begin to understand why many Virginia parents are upset at Sands’ policies. |
Anonymous
DP. You are correct. Absolute BS. Go look at all the high stats kids whose parents posted here and in college confidential about results during the last three years. Over and over high stats TJ kids were deferred or waitlisted or rejected. Some of the posts were tear-jerking because their kid wanted engineering and the parents couldn’t afford private or eve OSS engineering - the only great option in the Commonwealth had been closed to them and they had no alternative |
Anonymous
Typically, the bottom 20-25% of the TJ grads even bother applying to VT. It is shameful to attend VT as a TJ grad. |
Anonymous
| There is an easy solution to this that no one wants because everyone has been raised so entitled to what they want, when they want it. The solution is community college for a year and then transfer. |
Anonymous
| An yet, the percentage of black students is about 6%, looks like Latino students are 8% and 1st Gen are 14% (which likely includes some of the same students). |
Anonymous
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Seems like there is a lot of talking past one another.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong: 4.0 is a weighted average, so it straight As as a B in an AP is the same as A in regular, correct? So a 4.0 could be a significant number of Bs in AP classes, correct? |
Anonymous
I don't think any of the non-urban Virginia schools (UVA, VT, W&M, JMU, etc.) are particularly diverse by national public university standards. |
Anonymous
This. And the President wants 40% or more URM and first generation. So someone has to go. |