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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did your child show extra curricular that supported interest in engineering or science?  Something other than good grades in science & math classes?  [/quote]

My DC who was admitted to Va Tech engineering had a 3.97 after his senior year and a 3.79 at the end of his junior year. (Weighted)  The APs he took (and received mostly 4s and a few 5s) were AP Stats, BC Calculus, AP Chemistry, AP Physics C (E&M only), AP World, AP US, AP Gov. He took Gen ed English and Spanish for three years.  His HS was at one of the top 5 DCUM Fairfax County High Schools.   No C’s- this seems to be important,  there is a feeling from people in our HS that Tech does not admit kids with any C’s- even if it is one In an elective or that they tried to stretch themselves in a higher level core class.  I will say that DC received two B-s in classes that were very challenging for him.  One was in Honor English in his sophomore year and was way out of his league- same for third year Spanish.  The Spanish was mainly due to getting the easy teacher for Spanish 2 and the really hard stickler teacher for SPanish 3- it would have been better if they had been reversed (or that he had one or the other for both years).  His grades in the math and science classes were excellent.

He was in orchestra all four years going through the three levels of orchestras.  He earned his Eagle Scout award in the spring of his sophomore year.  He was active in our Congregation’s youth group and held a leadership position in our denomination’s mid-Atlantic HS group.  That was basically it.

I am an alumni that had donated a few hundred a year since graduation.

My gut is that his Eagle Scout and subsequent large number of volunteer hours is what pushed him over the line as wel as taking the hard STEM AP classes and doing well in them.  His AP Chem teacher wrote his recommendation.  [/quote]

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