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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because you asked and Naviance 2019 loaded:

Don’t flame if my math is wrong somewhere. I did it on the back of a sheet of paper.

In state applied/ accepted/ attending:
UVA: 333/152/53. (48% admit rate and In line with prior years)
WM: 189/153/40 (80% admit rate and in line with prior years)
VT:  99/71/21  (the huge surprise. Normally 200-250 kids apply.  But only low 20s attend each year.  So their attend number stayed stable).

Also:

GMU 17
VCU. 9 (their guaranteed admit med school program is popular at TJ)

So: 114 to UVA/WM/VT and 142 in state (although I didn’t pull every state school, no one to CNU)

Pitt: 116/113/25. Making it the 3rd most popular school and this the first year more kids applied to Pitt than VT and more kids attend Pitt than VT.  They give amazing merit aid to TJ kids, the counselors love them, and rolling admissions).

39 to Ivys:
Cornell topping the list at 15 (it’s always high, b/c engineering)
8 to Harvard
5 to Yale
4 to Princeton
2 to Columbia
1 to Dartmouth
0 to Brown

29 to Almost Ivy’s:
8 to MIT
1 to Cal Tech
12 to Chicago, out of 15 accepted (!!!— that’s a huge number for a non-engineering/CS school)
4 each to Stanford and Duke

75 to the T10 Engineering schools not already listed:
17 to Michigan
6 to GT
10 to Berkeley 
15 to CMU
13 to UI-CU
10 to Purdue
4 to UT Austin

14 total to the other T20 National Us not already listed put together, with 1-2 per school, except 3 to UCLA and 4 to WashU

2 to Williams.  I didn’t pullall of the top SLACs, but kids were admitted to, but are not attending Amherst, Swarthmore, and Davidson.

Other places I spot checked b/c I know kids going: Grinnell (1), Kenyon (1), CWRU (3), Ohio State (2), Penn State (6)

So that’s 339 of the 425.  The rest are likely to be 1-2 students each to T50 schools, a few SLACs, and T10-T20 engineering.  Probably at least 10-12 at other UCs combined, although I didn’t pull each one.

Make of it what you will.  I’m shocked that VT went from 243 apps in 2018 to 99 in 2019.  And had fewer students enroll than Pitt for the first time.  And had fewer students apply than Pitt, Michigan or GT.  Especially in a year when VT overenrolled. What I’m hearing (based on a sample size of about 4) is that kids aren’t filling out the Coalition app and writing the extra essays unless they really want VT.  They are using Pitt as their safety instead.

Anyway, looks like a great year to me. But, have at it.

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The Naviance seems kind of unbelievable.  Only 99 applying to VT?  That would be a HUGE change from prior years for one year.   I wonder if there is a data issue.

You also say UVA admit rate is in line with prior years, but that is a significantly lower rate than prior years.  It used to be quite high if you looked at the PDF the school produces.  I wonder if this is a reflection of increased UVA selectivity, or a change in their admit strategy for TJ (or both).  The other data point is the number going to UVA and VT are down considerably in 2019.  [/quote]

The same number of kids are going to VT— it’s been low 20s the last several years. The difference is number of kids applying.  Doing the Coalition App is a PITA, and more essays.  And VT may be the only TJ competitive school that requires coalition. TJ itself isn’t set up for Coalition— transcripts and red letters go automatically to common, and it’s more steps to do Coalition manually.  So, kids have moved to Pitt as their engineering safety.   Everyone gets in. Everyone gets enough merit aid to make it cost less than VT.   And lots of kids like the more urban campus.  Remember that most kids don’t actually plan to attend their safety school. They apply to Pitt. They are are thinking Michigan.

I have a rising senior. He would be applying to VT as a safety, but doesn’t want to deal with the Coalition.  He has several friends applying for engineering.  The only one who is applying VT is the one whose first choice is VT.  She is applying ED and hoping to only have to use the Coalition.

I’m actually around TJ upperclassmen, and talked to my kids counselor about admissions/ college right before school ended in June. I don’t think it’s a data error. I think it’s high demand for TJ kids by other engineering schools and a desire to avoid the Coalition app.  And Pitt has been aggressively buying talent for the last 5 years at least, so they can say they have more TJ kids than any other engineering school.  It’s smart.

As for UVA. Colleges have good and bad years.  2018 was weak for WM and it rebounded. You need more than one years worth of data. But ED is going to cause a reset anyway. 
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