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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Why are you making this situation about URM & First Gen students? I question when VT became a 1st choice for most of the people whining on this thread. Did they ED or did it become their 1st choice after getting other rejections and deferrals or acceptances with high price tags? Also, what major did they apply for because the high demand programs really matter at VT. But blaming this on URM students is just lazy. [/qu[/b]ote

No one is blaming this on URM students.  They are current with the news.  Pushing the student body to over 40% URM and first-generation was something pledged by the current head of VT, Tim Sands in 2017 and is still very much an issue there today.  https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/09/admissions-fall-census-2022.html.  Read also the Chronicle of Higher Education.  There are only so many VT engineering seats so if Sands wants to engage in social engineering like this then someone is not going to get in.  Hence, yield protection and caucasian and Asian students, especially TJ students, who used to get in (all else equal) are not getting in.  This is very much a news issue being discussed in Higher Education.  Some feel that the Commonwealth's only polytechnic school should not be engaging in this kind of social engineering, especially since the privates are doing it.  Shouldn't VT be serving the students of the state?  Also, as mentioned above, URM and first-generation IS a proxy for getting around test scores and GPA and accessing more Pell grant students, which, indeed, does push VT up the USNWR ranking.  Query also whether the only public polytech institution in the Commonwealth should be trying to push its way up USNWR.  Some commentators think this is OK, some do not.  The parents of high-stats kids who used to be able to get into VT engineering, computer science and math programs(especially the TJ parents) disagree.  It's that simple[/quote]

Most use URM as a euphemism for "Black." Black first year enrollment was 8.7 percent: compared to VA state population of 
~28% or so. Keep this in context. Also, VT includes veterans in its 40%goal - a lot of whites in that category.[/quote]

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