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UT Austin is a great academic institution. This rule gives people a chance who otherwise wouldn’t wouldn’t be admitted. [/quote]

I don't understand what you are trying to say?  Highly qualified TJ and other students applied ED/EA to VT and UVA and [b]got passed over for first-generation kids.  [/b]How does your sentence comport with that?  These are students that in a normal year have superb credentials that according to SCHEV should have been shoo-ins for Virginia Tech.  And they did apply early.  What are you trying to say about "VaTech didn't hold a position for them".  UVA and VT never hold a position for anyone.[/quote]

[b]Of course this shows an assumption that the first gen kid wasn’t competitive, too. What if they were both equally qualified?[/quote][/b]

No, it doesn't assume that.  There are only so many seats.  If you have 50,000 applications for only 3750 at UVA and 968 are in via ED and 6,000 are admited EA, and then you are told that of the ED and EA groups, 652 slots went to first-generation, wouldn't you be a little concerned?  Especially if you knew that 56% of Americans already in colleges are first-generation (like myself).  And predominantly white, so don't make this a race thing.

I think the problem was especially acute at VT from what I read.  You had VT kids who had 4.7 GPAs, 36 ACTs, ECs, everything and they were deferred from ED or EA.  Meanwhile, they weren't getting in into the top private tech schools either because the test-optional scheme opened the floodgates to record numbers of applications at all the top schools.  So, as I read it (I have no affiliation with VT), some VT kids aren't in anywhere.  But I still do't understand why the PP said that they thought "VT didn't hold a position for them".  VT never holds a position for everyone.  It's just we are now going thru a sea change due to covid plus the two presidents of VT and UVA have decided that yet another new speciality group - the first generationers - take precedence.  [/quote]

VT?  TJ?[/quote]

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