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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT rejects highly qualified in state applicants if they do not apply Early Decision.  VT does not want in state applicants to apply to UVA or consider merit packages from OOS universities.  VT is the only public school in the country that has this policy.[/quote]

This is such BS.  My high stats applicant applied EA and was accepted, as were several of his friends.  We get that your kid was not accepted, and others here on DCUM might have been rejected as well - but you understand that is a TINY sampling of the thousands of VT applicants, right?  It clearly makes you feel better [b]to blame the rejection on something nefarious going on, when there is not. [/b] As at many other universities, it always helps to apply ED.  But there are still plenty of high stats applicants getting in EA and RD.  And as at ALL universities, there are no guarantees - for anyone.

Your last line is ludicrous and your constant sour grapes are beyond tiresome. [/quote]

It's fairly well-established that VT engages in yield protection for high stats kids to better manage their enrollment--often waitlisting highest stats kids. And they did begin to use an admissions algorithm to help enrollment management after their major problems with predicting enrollment--which has been elsewhere shown to do this very thing: https://www.brookings.edu/research/enrollment-algorithms-are-contributing-to-the-crises-of-higher-education/ 
When a school offers major merit awards to kids who they initially waitlisted...it fits the narrative.
It's also true that their acceptance rates are higher for OOS applicants than in-state, contrary to other VA public school's practices.

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