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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And he is going to succeed despite the broken system. [b]There are a lot of out of state students paying full price that are also unqualified and struggling with the curriculum.[/b] My son will be just fine. I know that probably upsets you. [/quote] No it doesn't upset me at all and I genuinely wish him all the best. College admissions is complex, which I'm sure you know, so your sour grapes seem misplaced. Do you have data on the to support the statement you made about out of state students?[/quote]

College admissions isn't that complex.  You need to let in the most qualified students in.  That's it.  Anything else is social justice warriors penalizing groups based on demographics.

Look at his stats.  He is outstanding by every measure and well above average at VT and UVa engineering.  If you really think that every single admitted student is better than him, you are wrong.  He has a 4.0 at VCCS and will be there next fall.  I just want to point out VCCS to parents with students that have below a 4.7 GPA.  I put down the wrong GPA in my first post.  He had a 4.7.  [/quote]

But did he apply ED?  Probably not.  He should have.[/quote]

He applied early action.  He wasn't sure where he wanted to go. Lesson learned.  There were kids at his high school what got in early action that had a less stellar record.  Very good and they should have gotten in, but not as good as him.  My next kid will be applying early action. Or maybe she will want to go to VCCS.  [/quote]

Look, the fact is, if he had applied ED he would have been accepted as the schools would have known he was serious and committed to attending, and not just using them as fallbacks.  That's really all that needs to be said.  Stop repeating exactly the same things in your posts.  [/quote]

If this is true, I feel really bad for a kid being advised on the admissions process by OP. The kid applied to MIT but not CMU or Hopkins or any other similar school. They applied to UVA which is nothing like MIT, but UT or Michigan or any other flagships. They applied to Vt, but not GT or Purdue, or Washington or UIUC. It's like they had no advising at all because no one in their right mind applies to a school that's a totally crapshoot, another school that is just as much a crapshoot outside of ED, and a school that heavily yield protects and then shrugs and goes to community college. Not only did they have no safeties, that had almost no applications at all [/quote]

So you are saying that poor people that are smart need to spend thousands of dollars to apply and then be prepared to spend $250,000 on a private or out of state school?   Applying to an in state school with a 4.7 GPA is hardly a crapshoot unless the admissions office is broken.  We are only able to pay for an in state school.  He decided he wanted to go to VT after he didn't get into MIT.  Now is is doing GAA. [/quote]

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