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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][quote=Anonymous]Please list stats — curious about the couple pps with sons and thought tech was a match and kids rejected. 
I’ll be in this spot in a year. [/quote]

Deferred with 4.0UW/4.5W/1570 and 13 APs or post-APs. [/quote]

That is nuts. Where else did they apply?[/quote]

Princeton, Harvard, Hopkins, Duke, UVA, bunch of others. VT was lowest ranked school. Already in at several higher ranked schools. If you are high stats and want VT, better go ED and show tons of interest. [/quote]
In state? Engineering? Yield protection? But, UGH![/quote]

Yes, in state engineering. Feels like yield protection but no way to tell for sure. [/quote]
Seems like no other explanation. But also don’t understand why VT would bother to engage in such a practice. [/quote]

What I have heard is that VT engages in yield protection for enrollment management--a few years back they started using an algorithm (many big state Us use) that predicts who will enroll--this shuts out some high stats kids to the waitlist.  If they really want to attend, they will be snapped up--and are often even offered merit aid.  VT typically reaches out to these kids the day or so after decision day.  [/quote]

Or, the kids who really want to attend apply ED.
DP[/quote]

I'm sorry but that's BS regardless of how many people on here say that with seemingly little empathy for people's situation. You can have a strong desire to go somewhere or even have a school as you favorite but still have several legitimate reasons for not going ED, especially when you have to make that call early in fall.[/quote]

Not sure what to tell you.  It's a fact that if you have a first-choice school, ED-ing is your best hope of admittance (provided good stats, etc.).  It's not a sure-fire solution, but it certainly helps.  [/quote]

There's a difference with having a first-choice school and committing to that school should you be accepted. Again, there's many reasons why someone wouldn't want to do an ED in those circumstances. If you can't see the difference in that then I don't know what to tell you.[/quote]

And again - not sure what to tell you either. It is what it is.  People manage to ED all the time.  You certainly don’t have to, but stop complaining about rejections being “unfair.”  They’re unfair to practically everyone, for a variety of reasons.  [/quote]

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