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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid will have no problem getting in. It's a 60% admit rate.[/quote]

Using numbers from the 24-25 Common Data set, the in state admit rate was around 47.7%.  It was 59.1% for OOS, and 66.0% for international students.

I know [b]a lot of FCPS kids with 4.0+ GPAs, [/b]decent test scores, community service hours, and solid ECs who got wait-listed or even flat out denied this year.  [/quote]

True, but the context is important: many public schools in Fairfax county as well as other UMC areas of Virginia have GPA distributions such that 60-80% of the senior class has above 4.0W.  4.1-4.3 is a very common median Weighted GPA in our state. Virginia Tech is not as selective as a T20 but it most certainly is selective and does not admit students around the median GPA unless it is an extremely rigorous private or one of the STEM-focused top public magnets, and even then typically one needs to be top third or close. From a typical FCPS school VT takes from the top 20% and UVA from the top 10%. 4.2W is not going to come close. [/quote]
I disagree that it takes a 4.2 weighted GPA. I posted this in the other active VT thread. VT is a large public university that admits a lot of kids across the state. I only need to look at my kid's FCPS Naviance to see the test scores and GPAs of students admitted to VT. At my kid's school VT admits start at 3.5 WPGA with SATs (probably TO) at a little over 1000. So yes, plenty of below average students from my kid's school are getting admitted to VT. I'm sure for the most part these kids are not being admitted to engineering or business, but they are still students at VT.[/quote]

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