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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are Loudoun County- daughter is in top 10% of her graduating class.  No one from this top 10% got accepted to VT, except for those kids with siblings at VT currently and in the Engineering department.  No one!  Girl in the top 5% students didn't get accepted.  If you want to go to VT for Engineering then I suggest applying ED so you have somewhat of a shot.  I would love to know the average GPA and stats of the incoming freshman class at VT this year.  I only say this because so many kids in the 3.5-4.0 range are going to VT from my daughter's high school (for non engineering majors).  And it seems to be purely based on major.  Those high stat kids looking for Engineering, sciences, etc seemed to get lumped onto a waitlist.  And a lot of OOS kids were accepted and happily agreed to pay that tuition. Not sure what VT was thinking.  But, you accept a 3.5 and they're going to take it. The high stats kids going to JMU will be just fine.  JMU is an excellent college with so many opportunities and their students are usually very happy and don't transfer.   This really sours me on VT.  It'll take awhile to get over this.  Not sure what's been going on there the past few years with admissions but transparency would be nice.[/quote]

The counselors at our private school reminded senior families last fall that if VT is high on your college list, you should consider applying ED.  [b]They have seen from the last few years that no amount of high stats or gpa will save you if you apply to VT via RD. [/b]

Based on that, VT dropped off DS’ list.  He has been accepted to engineering/CS at T10 and T20 schools.  We are happy he is not in the crazy race for VT.  It would do a weird mind game if he is in at CMU but rejected at VT. [/quote]

VT is 100% clear that their RD is only on a space-available basis. If you are paying attention at all you at least apply EA.  But that's what was super unpredictable this year.[/quote]

I don’t know anyone who applied RD to VT. All the waitlisted kids at My school applied EA and got waitlisted [/quote]

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