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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would work on getting that 1300 up. I don't think it will get them into VT these days. I know many kids with higher scores than that (not engineering) who didn't get into VT this year.[/quote]

People need to look at actual numbers, rather than speculating. 1300 is close to the 75th percentile of admitted students for VT. Average GPA is 3.64. so OP's kid will be very competitive for VT.

http://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Virginia-Tech-SAT-scores-GPA

As for the other VA schools, based on prepscholar data:

JMU -- absolutely; the 25th/75th percentile split for SAT was 1040/1220. average GPA was 3.5.
UVA -- almost certainly a no
W&M -- also a no
VCU -- absolutely competitive.
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If you're talking about VT, then look up the admitted stats by major: https://www.ir.vt.edu/data/student/admissions.html

No need to speculate.[/quote]

Ok, so just skimming those numbers, it seems OP's kid is at, or above, the average GPA and SAT score for admitted students for every major. [/quote]

What does Naviance say OP? We can guess all we want, but historical data from your high school is really gonna tell you a better picture than any of us.[/quote]

Sure. I guess I'm just confused as to why people are so down on OP's kid's chances of getting into VT. This is a school with a 71% acceptance rate in 2017. [/quote]

Because admission percentage doesn't tell the whole picture. VT has a highly ranked engineering school for example and according to many who just went through the 2018 cycle, that 71% moved down to the high 50~%[/quote]

I'll believe that movement when I see it. A decrease of close to 20 percentage points in a school's acceptance rate in 1 year would be virtually unheard of, absent a major admissions process change, like when UChicago began accepting the Common App. [/quote]

Apparently, they received a record number 32K applications this year. Up from about 27K last year. They offered 18,700 spots in the class with the goal of a class of about 7K. 32K applicants divided by 18K offers = ~56%.

BOOM[/quote]

I won't believe that without a source. It would be unheard of for them. [/quote]

https://vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/wait-list-faq.html

"This year Virginia Tech received over 32,000 applications and we expect 6,200 to accept our offer and enroll. If we have fewer than 6,200 students accept our offer, we will offer admission to some of the students who chose to remain on our wait list."[/quote]

Also, that 18K number I got from the # of offered admission (2017):

https://vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/snapshot.html[/quote]

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