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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems in general that they are trying to get out of being a safety school. Some high stat kids have been turned down the last couple of years while lower stat kids admitted.  They probably don’t care much about early action. It’s just more kids applying to a long list of schools and it doesn’t help them predict their enrollment. They might get a handful of yeses to EA offers. How would it help them better manage their enrollment?[/quote]

VT is not and has never been a "safety school"

And has not let in kids with lower stats than others for a majority.

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[b]Oh, please.  You didn’t grow up here, did you?  Tech was very much a safety in the 80s and 90s.  I was a very average student and didn’t get into UVA or JMU  - but I did get into VT.  As did all of my average friends.  Things have definitely changed since then, but it was absolutely a safety school at one time.[/quote][/b]

The College admissions game is changing every single year. Nothing is like what it was in the 80s and 90s.  Here are the entering stats for the class last september at VT: (and remember these are the ENTERING students, not those of the entire accepted class, which is higher because some students go elsewhere):  The high school GPAs for the entering class at VT last fall was a 4.22 for 75th percentile, a 4.02 for Median and 3.81 for bottom 25th of the class. SATs scores were 1270/1290/1200 similarly and ACTs were 31/28/25[/quote]

[b]So it was a safety school for my DC1 who had a 4.6 and 1580.  And her friends who had similar stats.  [/b]

The fact that people are continuing to argue that it's not a safety school is silly, and it's making VT look like they didn't teach you all a thing.  My DC2 wants to go there and I am against it for this reason.  I don't see a lot of high-level, critical thinking coming out of there, be it from the alumni, admin, or profs.

Could someone from VT please say something smart so we can feel better about our decision?  A math proof maybe?

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For some students ALL VA public school are safety schools.  Nice "humble" brag there.  Get over yourself![/quote]

+1  To a certain extent, public schools are stats-driven, you know going in what it will cost, and they don't yield-protect.  So, for a high-stats student like the PP's who is in the range for super selective schools, these schools are "safeties" because no school that might be a 'match" for their stats can be counted on.  At that level it's all a crapshoot.  The highest tier are a lottery basically and the next tier down will yield-protect as they are trying to move up the ranks.

My DS has a very high SAT although after a weak freshman year, GPA isn't as high.  Our school Naviance reports Ivies as "safeties" for him purely because of his SAT.  I feel badly for uninformed students who look at that and only apply to that type of school.  In reality, in-state UVA is a big reach for him and VT is a solid match (not applying to engineering) and he's not applying to Ivy-level schools because I know it is in no way affordable and he won't get aid there.  From what I've seen a lot of those high-stats kids do apply to VT and UVAs as safeties but when the merit aid doesn't come through they end up happy at VT (in STEM) or UVA (Humanities).[/quote]

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