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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's their policy if any?  Do kids of alumni get preferential treatment?  Are students who only did a Master's program also considered alumni for this preferential treatment or is that reserved for people who spent a certain amount of time and money there?[/quote]

Is this a joke? [b]Va Tech has a 75 percent acceptance rate?[/quote][/b]

No, it doesn't and anyhow you can't compare acceptance rates of any state school to acceptance rates of private colleges or private universities. The students who apply to UVA, W&M, and UVA all self-select and the public high schools route the best students to the best VA school they think suitable.  So a better measure for how difficult it is to get in is to compare your child's GPA and test scores to the Average median 50% of scores at Tecj.  Here they are: https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1568.  All three institutions have kids coming in with very high test scores and high gpa.  A good rule of thumb is that it makes no sense if you are not in the top 10% of your class, say for UVA. because 93.6% acceptances last year were top ten percent of the class.  Average GPA is now 4.43, act average 50% median is 31-35.  Tech's are a bit lower but for engineering where most successful applicants had 4.0 or higher when they applied. [/quote]

Agreed.  Overall acceptance rates, particularly for popular in-state schools, is almost meaningless.  You need to look at acceptance rates for your DC's school which are available on Naviance.  What you don't have visibility into and is probably more important is the acceptance rates for a particular major.  VA Tech's acceptance rate for my DC's NVa public HS have hovered around 60% for the last 3 years.  The median GPA was 4.03 (weighted) and SAT/ACT are 1330/29 last year.  The stats for Engineering and out-of state are presumably higher.  By comparison, the medians for UVa and W&M are about a  .2 - .3 higher GPA and 100+ points on the SAT.  Tech is much larger and as a large land grant university should be accepting way more kids.
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