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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a dog in this fight as my kids are still in HS.  However, a lot of the posters on this thread seem somehow threatened by Tech's popularity or resentful of the fact that they're spending 3x as much to send their kids to some private college.  As a somewhat disinterested bystander, I find that telling.
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Tech's popularity?  Applications have actually decreased the past few years while most schools have drastically increased. They obviously do not have an admissions director that can do his job accurately if they go from admitting thousands off of WL to have over 1500 too many kids for the last 4 years.  The article said it admitted a lot of URM's, increased Pell grants, and accepted more first generations this year.  I think 35% of students were in these columns.  While this is great, they should have realized this was probably the top college for many of those kids and many weren't going to turn it away.

The concern now is are they recruiting too easily since applications are lower.  Do they have the support system in place to help the vast increase in first generation and poor kids to get the help they need to stay in school and succeed.  Their freshman retention rate is already too low and their 4 year graduation rate is only 60%. Do they have enough housing for students that need it.  How will they help the poor SES students get housing in sophomore to senior year if they can not afford to live off campus but they have no on campus housing for them.  Will kids have to pay for an extra semester if they can't get into classes because the enrollment is so huge.  Are there going to be crappy TA's teaching a lot of courses now to spread it thin?  I mean these are legit questions to ask.

I am not sure how you are taking this as people paying private school rates are jealous.  There is no one out there that WANTED to go to VT and had to go to a private instead.  VT isn't hard to get into.  It isn't UVA or Michigan now.  People pick privates because they are smaller, focus on undergrads, don't have classes with 400 students in them, and have great retention and graduation rates.  Apples and oranges when comparing.  That is why where are many choices. [/quote]

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