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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The VT bashing doesn't make any sense. It's a top school. -No dog in this fight [/quote]

Where’s the VT bashing?  VT is a fine school.  So are other second tier VA in states.[/quote]

VT is not second tier[/quote]

When you yield protect in state qualified applicants then you are second tier and have a second tier mentality.  Frankly more like third tier.[/quote]

So bitter.  [/quote]

Not bitter - kids have not applied yet.  Just observing the patterns and that the other local schools are more fair and transparent - Virginia, Maryland, George Mason, VCU etc..  Hope DC is not interested in VT so we can skip the VT admissions games.[/quote]

VT is the most transparent school we looked at when it comes to admission stats.  I can’t think of another school that publishes detailed data about every major they offer and the corresponding stats.  We found that extremely useful.[/quote]

No VT is not the most transparent. All VA schools, public and private, provide exhaustive data to SCHEV , which publishes detailed results every late fall. It’s an extraordinary amount of information. No other state does this. Every parent looking at VA schools should be familiar with it[/quote]

I’m not talking about SCHEV.  VT has its own site (linked on these threads many times) which allows users to input college, major, type of student, etc. and see acceptance rates for all.  No other VA school provides such granular information.  [/quote]

NP.  I agree with the Tech disclosure of acceptance nformation, but the bigger question seems WHY/HOW do they accept the kids they do?  It just seems so arbitrary.  This year my son from FCPS was a direct admit to UMD CS with merit applying EA and W&M Monroe Scholar applying RD. Differed UVA. 12 applications and not one ED.  CS major did NOT bother applying to state's premier tech school because admission is so unpredictable. Admission appears to be run like a private rather than a state supported institution. Other VA schools, if you hit certain benchmarks, you can reasonably predict the result.  Not Tech.[/quote]

Again, admissions is not just stats. [/quote]

PP, again, Tech's process just appears so unique and arbitrary. Reliance on ED (which comprise probably less a dozen public institutions in the entire country) and higher OOS acceptance rate (again highly unusual for a public institution).  [/quote]

I think it’s funny that the Virginia posters complaining about  VT often comment on their admission to MD from oos.  Clearly MD also takes a lot of oos students.[/quote]

[b]Exactly!  They don’t even grasp the disconnect in their “logic.”[/quote]

+1[/quote][/b][b]

The "logic" is pretty clear.  A few years back VT brought in admissions consultants to help them assess how to climb the USNWR charts.  The result is what you see.  Also, Tech's President TIm Sands said he wanted the university to be 40% URM and Students of Color.  He achieved this by 2022.  https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/09/admissions-fall-census-2022.html.  What does that do?  It catapults VT up the USNWR charts.  How do you do this?  You yield protect and select more URM and first generations.  So, if you are URM or first generation you are going to get a big boost in admissions.  If you are Asian American and a great student at TJ, forget it.  We've seen this for the last four or five years.  That's why there is a "disconnect" and reporting is all over the board.[/quote]

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