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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I think about who applied to VT from my son's class, it was a bunch of solid students who were reasonable candidates or better.  As a group, they were better than those who landed at JMU.

When I think of those who applied to UVA and WM, there were far more hail marys.

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This is an interesting comment. Anecdotal, but it reflects a driven focus that many -not all- Tech students have. In engineering and sciences it’s a hunker-down-and-work hard place. There are lots of college life/community service/ club /internship / research opportunities and lots of go getters who take advantage of them. It also has students from other areas of VA the DC metro area forgets about; even scoffs at. Agricultural sciences, sustainable building, packaging engineering, etc. It is a tech school and the basic requirements for most majors are several semesters of chem, math, often physics and biology and it can be grueling. Students choose it with specific goals in mind less than: what’s the best school I can get into ( the Hail Marys).

As for rejecting high stat students, I have no clue. I hear it’s happening. I do understand if they think they won’t come. I do not at all understand when it’s ED.[/quote]

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