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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this is relevant, but I was waitlisted at VT with a 4.5 weighted gpa (4.0 UW). I am ranked number one in my class, captain of 2 varsity sports team, and founder of the only student-led club in my school. This was my safety school and this decision came as a devastating surprise. At the time of the decision (it was the first to come out) I was terrified I would not get into a single school. Now, 2 months later I have been accepted into UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary, and Georgetown. I was waitlisted at UPenn and Duke as well. Still, my waitlist from VT deeply upsets me. Does anyone know why this happened?[/quote]

Your supplemental essays were probably not very good. VT cares a lot about the answers to those 4 questions. If not that, then perhaps you are a lying troll?[/quote]

Yield protection most likely. A bunch of very high stat kids from our HS are waitlisted at V Tech the last couple of years. Most view it as a safety however and have no intention of attending. I think V Tech just wised up to this fact. Just unfortunate. Cannot blame the school or kids, just the whole ratings game that needs to be played.[/quote]

Happened to my kid.

In at places several top 10 schools, waitlisted at VT which should have been a safety.

It sucks, because the Virginia waitlists to multiple schools completely wrecked out plans for attending in state universities.

Yes, my kid gets to go to a much higher ranked school than VT, but financially,  we c9mpletely lose out because the plan and the years of work were focused on in state tuition.

I wish the schools would not play these games, and would just use an objective admissions metric like the SAT.  [/quote]

If an in-state school at which your kid was waitlisted was really their #1 choice, did they subsequently inform the school that if accepted, they would definitely attend?  That can often work for kids with stats way above the median for the school.  And if they didn't do this, why not?  Also, why apply to several top 10 schools if you wanted to pay in-state tutition?  [/quote]

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