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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The VT thread is exactly what got me down his rabbit hole. [/quote]

This!  And please don't say DC can just go OOS somewhere else.  Some of the most equivalent/appealing options are pretty far away because NC, FL, GA prioritize in state apps.  And... now my family gets to pay OOS tuition plus the additional costs associated with those logistics because my very solid student is being shut out of VT for OOS apps. [/quote]

Your kid doesn't have to go OOS as there are a number of other in-state options in Virginia.  Maybe not as "appealing" as VT, but good schools nonetheless, including schools with engineering programs. [/quote]

But VT is the only polytechnic university in the state. It has majors no other university in the Commonwealth has. [b]It’s also too late to apply to other VA Universities even if another had a similar program[/b].[/quote]

DP.  Maybe the applying to other VA schools should have happened at the same time as applying to VT?   :roll: [/quote]

See 23:59 above for answer. Students can afford only so many applications in their intended area of study. Counselors usually suggest 3 safeties, three targets, three reaches, etc. Some schools limit the student to 10 applications. In this case the counselor, student and parents thought VT was a lock and/or the only school in VA with the desired program. So now they must pay for OOS or private.[/quote]

Strange post.  Students aren’t limited to only applying to certain schools.  Especially within their own state.[/quote]

Not strange at all. Let’s say your advisor suggests six applications. You want aerospace engineering and are high stats. So you apply to Princeton, Cornell, two Ivies where parents are legacies, Georgia Tech, Purdue and Virginia Tech.  You don’t get into Tech, so now you must go to OOS or private. There is no other comparable program on VA to Virginia Tech’s aerospace engineering program ( this hypothetical actually happened in our family)[/quote]

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