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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] 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] How many times are you going to post this?[/quote] +1 This poster is obsessed. She posts exactly the same thing, verbatim, in every thread about VT. And yet, VT is 60% white/Asian - and other schools do exactly the same thing, they just don't publicize it. Some really sour grapes there. [/quote] +1 This poster shows up ALL the time. Surely there is a klan meeting going on somewhere they can dash off to. Tech is now 40.4% URM and first/generation because of Tim Sand’s desire to try and raise Tech’s status in USNWR rankings by filling the class with first-generation and URMs, thereby increasing the chances of getting some additional Pell grant students. That it a fact and has berm well-documented since he said he was going to do this in 2017. The Commonwealth’s composition is not 40.4 per cent URM and first-generation. Why is the only polytechnic school in the state allowed to do this? It’s a very fair question [/quote] NP. Not sure where these numbers are coming from. All non white together are less than 40%, and that includes Asian and international students. I just looked at vt demographics, and it is heavily white and under representative in diversity. Sounds like you have an axe to grind and are willing to fudge numbers to get there. [/quote][/quote]
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