VA Tech

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Anonymous wrote:If your student is not interested in engineering, the GPA/test scores of admitted students and acceptance rate at VT will be similar to JMU.

Evidence/citation for this assertion?

Not true for business either. My ds was waitlisted and never moved from waitlist for VT, but was admitted to the honors college at JMU.

Vt publishes all kinds of data by major and demographics, go look it up.

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Engineering and Business turn down a lot of very good students

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.

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.

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

This again? I have kids at VT getting *gasp* humanities degrees and receiving a wonderful education. MIT, VT, GT - all of these schools are excellent all around, not just at “tech”.

My daughter has a 3.73 weighted GPA and a 1350 SAT Score. She is interested in Political Science, International Relations etc. degrees. VT is on the top of her list, but I'm wondering if she will have a chance.

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Anonymous wrote:VT is notorious for making wonky decisions, so never a safety.

As stated numerous times on this board, the likelihood of admission completely depends on the major to which a student applies. It is MUCH harder to get into engineering versus, for example, consumer sciences.

Yes AND the rely heavily on several very subjective essay interpretations which now also are being read by AI. Good luck LOL

So AI is reading AI-generated essays. Our new world is awesome!

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Anonymous wrote: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

Smart to choose colleges using the "best fit" as the college selection metric.

Btw, we also will not be applying to engineering programs which intentionally "weed out" students. There are plenty of other good choices for engineering.

Sounds like your kid could be a good candidate for engineering technology. Lot's of good schools offer these programs, which are a bit less math and science intensive. If your kid has high academics schools like Rice, Yale and Harvard also offer a BA in engineering, which aren't ABET accredited, but offer some exposure to engineering as well.

No. Strong student, very well prepared, but only will be applying to engineering colleges that have a higher graduation rate than VT and no international "weed out" classes.

It only gets harder from the weed out classes at any engineering school. How is your cupcake going to handle the upper level engineering courses if they are worried about the first classes of calculus, chemistry and physics. A well prepared, strong student isn't getting weeded out at VT.

Exactly ^^. If a school has weed out classes, then it’s a given that the graduates are top-notch and haven’t been babied along for four years.

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Anonymous wrote:If your student is not interested in engineering, the GPA/test scores of admitted students and acceptance rate at VT will be similar to JMU.

Evidence/citation for this assertion?

Not true for business either. My ds was waitlisted and never moved from waitlist for VT, but was admitted to the honors college at JMU.

Vt publishes all kinds of data by major and demographics, go look it up.

+1

Engineering and Business turn down a lot of very good students

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.

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.

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

This again? I have kids at VT getting *gasp* humanities degrees and receiving a wonderful education. MIT, VT, GT - all of these schools are excellent all around, not just at “tech”.

My daughter has a 3.73 weighted GPA and a 1350 SAT Score. She is interested in Political Science, International Relations etc. degrees. VT is on the top of her list, but I'm wondering if she will have a chance.

Definitely apply. I wholeheartedly recommend this school.

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Anonymous wrote:VT is notorious for making wonky decisions, so never a safety.

As stated numerous times on this board, the likelihood of admission completely depends on the major to which a student applies. It is MUCH harder to get into engineering versus, for example, consumer sciences.

Yes AND the rely heavily on several very subjective essay interpretations which now also are being read by AI. Good luck LOL

So AI is reading AI-generated essays. Our new world is awesome!

DP. There are still human readers. They are only using one AI “reader,” much like many other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:VT is notorious for making wonky decisions, so never a safety.

As stated numerous times on this board, the likelihood of admission completely depends on the major to which a student applies. It is MUCH harder to get into engineering versus, for example, consumer sciences.

Yes AND the rely heavily on several very subjective essay interpretations which now also are being read by AI. Good luck LOL

So AI is reading AI-generated essays. Our new world is awesome!

DP. There are still human readers. They are only using one AI “reader,” much like many other schools.

This. And, if there's a discrepancy between the human score and AI score, it will get another human reader. I listened to an interview with the admissions director about it. They are making this change to try to get their EA decisions out sooner. They release so much later than other schools because their essay review process takes so long and it's a problem.