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Anonymous wrote: 
 I would work on getting that 1300 up. I don't think it will get them into VT these days. I know many kids with higher scores than that (not engineering) who didn't get into VT this year.

People need to look at actual numbers, rather than speculating. 1300 is close to the 75th percentile of admitted students for VT. Average GPA is 3.64. so OP's kid will be very competitive for VT.

http://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Virginia-Tech-SAT-scores-GPA

As for the other VA schools, based on prepscholar data:

JMU -- absolutely; the 25th/75th percentile split for SAT was 1040/1220. average GPA was 3.5. 
 UVA -- almost certainly a no 
 W&M -- also a no 
 VCU -- absolutely competitive.

I am the PP you were responding to. My DS got into VT this year, so I am not simply speculating. The data you are sourcing is based on 2017 admissions, not 2018 admissions. If you've been following VT at all this year, you will know that their admissions rate has tightened. I would also dispute the Prepscholar numbers for JMU...I think admission there for NOVA applicants is more difficult than described here.

The best data of all is the Naviance data for your student's own school.

Sure, school data is always the best indicator. You really won't know about movement in numbers from 2017 to 2018 until the official numbers come out, so you're speculating at this point.   
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So are you, a**hole.
  
 
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Wow, that was a really disproportionately aggressive response.

I'm going by the prepscholar numbers. While that's partially speculative, it's also rooted in published data. [/quote]

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