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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I don't think that plenty of high stats kids were accepted.  Your son was the exception. [/quote]

A scroll through the admissions discussion on College Confidential shows lots of high-stats kids were accepted.  Yes, a lot waitlisted too. I don't know why my DS was accepted vs. others except that he applied to a major that is fairly new and perhaps still trying to grow the program.  I get that it's frustrating and seems to be no rhyme or reason why one gets in vs. another, especially within one major, probably comes down to the essays since they are the most subjective part of the process.[/quote]

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