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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT is more pure numbers driven than UVA.  [/quote]

No, the current President is highly driven to make the school URM and first generation.google it. [/quote]

[b]We know - you keep repeating this[/b].  However, at least from our high school, these are not the kids who got in.  They are among the top in their class, both academically and EC-wise, and none are first generation.[/quote]

DP.  No one single person is repeating anything. Timothy Sands's positions are well known.  And many in the Commonwealth, administrators, legislators and parents feel that the ONLY polytech public University in the Commonwealth should be training the best and the brightest, not messing with social engineering or URMs and first generations.  This is established news.[/quote]

N[b]P, does make you wonder if engineering schools at Mason, VCU and ODU are benefitting as result. [/quote][/b]

I have close ties to one of those schools and serve on advisory committees.  the answer is "most definitely!". A lot of MC and UMC Virginia parents really need the amazing Virginia public University system.  They can't afford $81K a year for private, where most of them wind up after finishing the FAFSA.  So getting in VT for engineering is really really important.  And it is really really frustrating with those stellar students (like TJ) kids cannot get into their own polytech school.  So when they get waitlisted, yes, they wind up at Mason (great engineering department), VCU (arts), and ODU.  Of course, many overlook UVA because some idiot on here keeps saying its poor in engineering but I can attest from personal experience that the engineering department is amazing and that recent grads are doing Ph. D.s in electrical engineering at Princeton.  W&M also has an xlnt computer school, often overlooked.  in=state Virginians should apply far and wide to all the Virginia schools.[/quote]

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