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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Transparen?  Hardly.  Have you even seen a VT Naviance chart lately?[/quote]

There is more to admissions than stats. This has been addressed. [/quote]

I'm really curious how they are able to put so much weight on supplemental essays--how they can even read them with that much care at that volume and make meaningful distinctions about how kids respond.   And why?  Are a few 150 word responses really that telling about how well you will succeed/make use of a technical education?  It just really doesn't make sense to me.  [/quote]

They don't.  This is just what people say to support the narrative of no yield protection and to justify VT rejecting high stats kids and accepting kids with 3.5 GPAs and 1250 SATs.  As if a kid with a 4.5 and a 1590 SAT couildn't write a coherent 150 word essay.  [/quote]

[b]Pretty much every selective college in the country will have examples of high stats kids being rejected and lower stat kids being accepted.

My own child was accepted to Tech with a 1500 for a non-engineering major so I don’t believe there is a grand conspiracy against students with higher test scores, and I know for a fact there were kids with lower stats that were accepted at other schools where she was rejected.  Acceptances today are predicated on a whole range of factors.  Even the top kid at our academically rigorous high school did not get into some of the schools she applied to this year, everyone has had their share of disappointments.
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I’m sure your child will have some excellent options with their great stats.[/quote]

Exactly.  There is another thread on this forum discussing exactly that ("Computer Science Major").  Interesting how those parents aren't blaming the schools that rejected their kids on that thread.  For some reason, the parents here feel their kids are entitled to a VT admission. They're not.[/quote]

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