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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Son’s classmate got into Cornell and UVA. Waitlisted at Tech. [/quote]

Why is this surprising?  This is why sometimes people get turned down for being overqualified for a job.  The schools try to accept kids they think will actually attend the school.  If they admit all high stats kids, they'll be under enrolled.  Waitlist allows them to see [b]how many of the high stats kids withdraw [/b]and use that to judge which ones are really interested.    [/quote]

Except this year,[b] VT will have probably zero high stats kids to choose from. [/b] Now their ranking (whatever your source) will plummet, and fewer high ranking students will bother applying in the future.  Is that what VT wants?

Also, is the VA public college/uni system looking to give white kids NO options - because if that happens, there will be big lawsuits. You can't say "we want 90% first generation".  It doesn't work that way. Look at what happened to TJ. [/quote]

Plenty of high-stats kids did get accepted, just not as high a % as probably should have.  My DS is above the 75th %ile in GPA and SAT (1500) and was accepted (in-state, white, Northern VA) and will be going to VT as it is the best value of the schools he was accepted to (not accepted to UVA).  [/quote]

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