Smart kid wants a party/sports school (ugh)- Penn State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, U Florida?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to state the obvious (surprised no one has mentioned it more than once) but Virginia Tech has a massive alumni network in the DC area, name recognition, sports, great for STEM, etc. I have never lacked for jobs or connections and had such a blast there. Truly don’t know anyone who didn’t love it.

Agree with you, but OP said that DC's SAT was high 1300s. Under the new normal at VT, that is not getting DC into VT unless DC applies ED to a college other than engineering and perhaps goes test optional (or better yet gets SAT up into the upper 1400s).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really? My neighbor got into Wisconsin and Penn State with a 1260 a few years ago. maybe you were just hanging out with the smart kids? High 1300's is 75th percentile for Penn State, 50th % for the other schools listed-- but high GPA could offset that.

My nephew got into penn state last year. He barely scraped through high school with mediocre grades and test scores. His final GPA was just over 3.0 and ACT was 26.

Which campus?

State college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to state the obvious (surprised no one has mentioned it more than once) but Virginia Tech has a massive alumni network in the DC area, name recognition, sports, great for STEM, etc. I have never lacked for jobs or connections and had such a blast there. Truly don’t know anyone who didn’t love it.

Agree with you, but OP said that DC's SAT was high 1300s. Under the new normal at VT, that is not getting DC into VT unless DC applies ED to a college other than engineering and perhaps goes test optional (or better yet gets SAT up into the upper 1400s).

Per our FCPS Naviance, high 1300s is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to state the obvious (surprised no one has mentioned it more than once) but Virginia Tech has a massive alumni network in the DC area, name recognition, sports, great for STEM, etc. I have never lacked for jobs or connections and had such a blast there. Truly don’t know anyone who didn’t love it.

Agree with you, but OP said that DC's SAT was high 1300s. Under the new normal at VT, that is not getting DC into VT unless DC applies ED to a college other than engineering and perhaps goes test optional (or better yet gets SAT up into the upper 1400s).

Per our FCPS Naviance, high 1300s is fine.

Yeah, that poster is smoking crack. My kid applied to V Tech last year with a 1300 and got in, as did basically everyone else she knew with similar stats. Might not cut it for engineering, but in state is a very gapped shot for everything else.

[Anonymous]

Any kid who wants a "party school" is not smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to state the obvious (surprised no one has mentioned it more than once) but Virginia Tech has a massive alumni network in the DC area, name recognition, sports, great for STEM, etc. I have never lacked for jobs or connections and had such a blast there. Truly don’t know anyone who didn’t love it.

Agree with you, but OP said that DC's SAT was high 1300s. Under the new normal at VT, that is not getting DC into VT unless DC applies ED to a college other than engineering and perhaps goes test optional (or better yet gets SAT up into the upper 1400s).

Per our FCPS Naviance, high 1300s is fine.

Yeah, that poster is smoking crack. My kid applied to V Tech last year with a 1300 and got in, as did basically everyone else she knew with similar stats. Might not cut it for engineering, but in state is a very gapped shot for everything else.

The Naviance data are from last year.

If you read through the lamentations and wailings on this board and college confidential about VT denials and waitlists, you will a lot of high stats NOVA kids who didn't make it (although I agree that this might be distorted by the engineering crowd that posts on these boards).

OP's DC could get into VT (particularly as OOS) if DC applies to a school other than engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don’t put smart and SAT 1300 in the same sentence. While high SAT scores don’t necessarily indicate you’re smart, 1300s almost certainly indicate you’re not (because SAT tests are so easy these days).

I was thinking the same thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t put smart and SAT 1300 in the same sentence. While high SAT scores don’t necessarily indicate you’re smart, 1300s almost certainly indicate you’re not (because SAT tests are so easy these days).

I was thinking the same thing.

Dumb and dumber agreeing with each other. Hilarious.