How does Virginia Tech have such a high admissions rate?

[Anonymous]

Tech has a 70% admissions rate, yet the average NON WEIGHTED GPA is a 3.9. I see lots of schools with much lower acceptance rates where the average gpa/SAT score is much lower than Techs. This just does not make any sense.

[Anonymous]

It is called self-selection and is not unique to VT.

[Anonymous]

I'm curious why it matters to you what a college's admission's rate is? I'd be more interested in its graduation rate and it's job placement rate. I.e. outcomes.

Seems weird to care about an admissions rate.

[Anonymous]

Because GPAs are inflated in Virginia. What public school is on a true, 4.0scale? None. The GPAs go up to 4.6+.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why it matters to you what a college's admission's rate is? I'd be more interested in its graduation rate and it's job placement rate. I.e. outcomes.

Seems weird to care about an admissions rate.

It’s curiosity. Plus it just doesn’t make sense. The school has vey high stats for incoming Freshmen. E erroneous knows it’s one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to. Yet the admissions rate is considerably higher than schools with much lower stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why it matters to you what a college's admission's rate is? I'd be more interested in its graduation rate and it's job placement rate. I.e. outcomes.

Seems weird to care about an admissions rate.

It’s curiosity. Plus it just doesn’t make sense. The school has vey high stats for incoming Freshmen. E erroneous knows it’s one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to. Yet the admissions rate is considerably higher than schools with much lower stats.

I think it's more than curiosity. I suspect it hurts your ego because you say "everyone knows it's one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to" when that's clearly not the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because GPAs are inflated in Virginia. What public school is on a true, 4.0scale? None. The GPAs go up to 4.6+.

Yeah but it’s still easy to calculate the unweighted GPA, and it doesn’t explain why schools with lower incoming unweighted gpas would have a lower admittance rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why it matters to you what a college's admission's rate is? I'd be more interested in its graduation rate and it's job placement rate. I.e. outcomes.

Seems weird to care about an admissions rate.

It’s curiosity. Plus it just doesn’t make sense. The school has vey high stats for incoming Freshmen. E erroneous knows it’s one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to. Yet the admissions rate is considerably higher than schools with much lower stats.

It's an engineering school. That's not atypical for an engineering school. The students self-select.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why it matters to you what a college's admission's rate is? I'd be more interested in its graduation rate and it's job placement rate. I.e. outcomes.

Seems weird to care about an admissions rate.

It’s curiosity. Plus it just doesn’t make sense. The school has vey high stats for incoming Freshmen. E erroneous knows it’s one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to. Yet the admissions rate is considerably higher than schools with much lower stats.

I think it's more than curiosity. I suspect it hurts your ego because you say "everyone knows it's one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to" when that's clearly not the case.

Getting into an engineering program isn't that hard. Staying in an engineering program is REALLY hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why it matters to you what a college's admission's rate is? I'd be more interested in its graduation rate and it's job placement rate. I.e. outcomes.

Seems weird to care about an admissions rate.

It’s curiosity. Plus it just doesn’t make sense. The school has vey high stats for incoming Freshmen. E erroneous knows it’s one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to. Yet the admissions rate is considerably higher than schools with much lower stats.

"one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to" with a 70% admission rate? Check your math. It's not hard to get into.

It's also not in demand outside of Virginia. It's actually EASIER to get in from OOS.

[Anonymous]

It’s in an undesirable location? Barnard has an 11% acceptance rate and Pitzer has a 12% acceptance rate. Neither are very well endowed schools, but both are in excellent locations compared to other LACs.

[Anonymous]

Public School Counselors will only write recommendations if they think you have a good chance. They are the gate-keepers for Public Colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s in an undesirable location? Barnard has an 11% acceptance rate and Pitzer has a 12% acceptance rate. Neither are very well endowed schools, but both are in excellent locations compared to other LACs.

Barnard is in an excellent location? Pitzer is the runt of the Claremont litter. Virginia Tech is a safety school for UVA rejects that has no appeal outside of this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why it matters to you what a college's admission's rate is? I'd be more interested in its graduation rate and it's job placement rate. I.e. outcomes.

Seems weird to care about an admissions rate.

It’s curiosity. Plus it just doesn’t make sense. The school has vey high stats for incoming Freshmen. E erroneous knows it’s one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to. Yet the admissions rate is considerably higher than schools with much lower stats.

I think it's more than curiosity. I suspect it hurts your ego because you say "everyone knows it's one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to" when that's clearly not the case.

Getting into an engineering program isn't that hard. Staying in an engineering program is REALLY hard.

as my kid learned...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why it matters to you what a college's admission's rate is? I'd be more interested in its graduation rate and it's job placement rate. I.e. outcomes.

Seems weird to care about an admissions rate.

It’s curiosity. Plus it just doesn’t make sense. The school has vey high stats for incoming Freshmen. E erroneous knows it’s one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to. Yet the admissions rate is considerably higher than schools with much lower stats.

I think it's more than curiosity. I suspect it hurts your ego because you say "everyone knows it's one of the hardest Virginia schools to be admitted to" when that's clearly not the case.

Ok fine think that. Now can you answer the question as to why a school that has a student profile with high stats also has a very high admissions rate?