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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread scares me. DD is a junior and I’m afraid that she won’t even get into her safety school. I’ve been hearing about a lot of well qualified kids being rejected from UMD CP. [/quote]

Well-qualified kids get rejected all the time do she needs to do her research and know it is hard.

Also keep in mind that a safety school is one with at least a 50% admit rate that you can afford and your kid would be happy attending. If your child applies to 2-3 that fit that definition they won’t be shut out. It is far harder to find these than fixating on a dream school.

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That is not what a safety school is. Admits rates do not matter.  [b]VT has way over a 50% admit rate and an average kid would get denied all day long. [/b]

It is how kids in your school tend to do in that school. If you are way above Naviance green grid. It is being about the 75% average of their GPA and test scores. And lately some luck. [/quote]

Not anymore -- https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2019/03/unirel-2019-admissions-pool.html

For the class of 2023 the admit rate was below 25%.

"This year marks the second consecutive year, and only the second time in history, that more than 30,000 students applied to Virginia Tech.

The university intends to enroll 6,600 incoming first-year students, a 400-seat increase from last year’s class. Even with this increase, students who were offered spots have a strong academic profile, with an average GPA of 4.10 and average SAT score of 1320. ..."[/quote]

If they intend to enroll 6600 students, they will admit about 20,000 students since VT typically has a 30-35% yield.  So their acceptance is around 66% give or take.  It was 68% last year. 70% the year before that. [/quote]

Exactly. Admission rate is basically staying the same. [b] My concern would be where are they putting all the new admits they want to take?[/b] New housing, shoving them all in already too small of rooms, or realizing their yield isn't going to be as high as they say.  [/quote]

Many of the Virginia universities were oversubscribed last fall and had to triple up double dorm rooms.  Tech tripled up.  UVA is building and renovating dorms.  GMU is asking upper classman to give up their dorm rooms so the freshman can be put in them. Where possible, they are tripled.[/quote]

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