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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every year, NOVA parents scoff in the fall how VT is kind of beneath their kid ("we applied as a safety") and then they are shocked -- shocked I tell you! -- when they find admittance can actually be quite competitive now.

How dare VT turn down my kid! Virginia needs an in-state flagship option, but no one should expect UVA to admit more of the rabble, oh no, no, no! UVA is entitled to have a 23% admittance rate and deny tons of talented students in Virginia, but VT should remain easy to get into, but selective at the same time if my kid gets in so it looks good!

It's the same every year.
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From what I can read in these threads, no one is saying VT should remain easy to get into, rather that--holding everything else constant-- it should be easier for a student to get into with higher grades and higher SAT scores than not.

My kid didn't apply to VT (she's more a W&M/SLAC type) but I can look at her school's Naviance profile and see the discrepancy:  For VT- there's a cluster of more red dots in the upper right hand corner of the Naviance profile  showing that for at least the past 3 years of data, kids with high GPA and high SATs are more likely to be rejected from VT than those with slightly lower GPAs and SATs.  This is in contrast to UVA where there's a steady line at about the top 5% of the class that gets admitted, and W&M where there's a cluster of green at the right corner showing that  higher GPA and higher SATs consistently are more likely to be admitted.  
So people complain about likely yield protection.  Of course SOME kids get in with all kinds of different scores, but the pattern is pretty consistent and needs explaining.  I don't think a public school should engage in yield protection for in-state students: admit the strongest students and don't worry about whether they will attend or not.   So why are there MORE rejections of high stat kids than of middle stat kids in our Naviance profile for VT?  If it were just "VT cares about more than stats" it should be more evenly distributed acceptances and rejections at the different GPAs/SATs.[/quote]

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