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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the frustration is that the school has a 57% acceptance rate and kids stats are in the top quartile. It's understandable. [/quote]

VT certainly no longer has a 57% acceptance rate. It's now 13%, and for STEM-oriented students, that number is sure to be even lower.[/quote]

It's not that low, even if it feels like that when when your kid doesn't get in. There was just as much complaining last year and these were the in-state acceptance rates...

College of Engineering = 45%. (If take out 1st gen/URM, it's 41%)
College of Architecture = 41%, (39%)
College of Business = 35% (28%)
College of Natural Sciences & Environment = 59% (59%)
College of Science = 59% (56%)
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences = 46% (39%)
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences = 63% (60%)

Interesting to see that Business has a lower acceptance rate than Engineering.  That's the only college with a <40% acceptance rate for in-state students. It definitely got more competitive in the last few years. College of Business was 57% for in-state/not 1st gen/not URM in 2020-21 but then dropped to 35% -->30% -->28%.

But even within Business acceptance rates vary a lot. BIT=28%, Management=31%, Marketing=38%, Hospitality & Tourism=40%, Accounting=47%. There's a listing of "Dean of Business" which may be the "undecided" option, that has a 19% acceptance rate. So, if you want the business school, don't apply undecided! Apply as an accounting major. Easy to change your major within the business school.[/quote]

No reason to parse out first gen/URM in your numbers.

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Actually, there is. [b]It shows the acceptance rate for first gen are often  lower than others.[/b] So those complaining their children are disadvantaged by their privilege are wrong.

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+1 There's no uniformly higher acceptance rate for 1st gen students. I just looked up my son's major (he's a sophomore at VT.) Limiting to in-state students, the 1st gen applicants had a lower acceptance rate (57%) than non-1st gen (66%). URM were 1% point lower than non-URM. The big difference is OOS (81%) vs. In-state (65%). They accept a lot more OOS because yield is very low -- 15% vs. 57% for in-state.[/quote]

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Bursting the grievance narrative, one fact at a time.[/quote]

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