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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Were legacies ever a thing there? Their main goal was 40% first gen or urm. I guess they will have to change the urm part after the Supreme Court ruling.[/quote]

They have been reducing the use of legacies in decision criteria over time.  They stated that for the past few years, they did not provide any preference to legacies in admission decisions, and they found that the number of legacy admissions remained the same.  Therefore, they are simply making this stance official, because it wasn't necessary.

15-18% of their students applied early decision.  75-80% of their students apply early action.  Last year only 5% of their students applied regular decision.  If you apply regular decision, all the slots will probably be filled.

My guess is that the early decision candidates are mostly legacy who really want to go to VT, and definitely candidates who don't have to worry about financial aid (or are able to take the risk.)  This might affect their legacy numbers.

Technically this improves the chances for someone applying early action (because the early decision folks don't get an early shot at the available slots), but it also means that everyone is in the 95% pool.  VT's yield numbers are likely to drop, because the highest caliber students might be using the school as a safety rather than their target school.  The lack of ED means that if you really wanted to go there, you have no real way of indicating that.  You now are more likely to compete against those exceptional students, reducing your chances (more likely to get a deferral).[/quote]

+1 - which is disappointing for those of us whose kids have VT as their first choice.  Now they have no way of showing their commitment.  Same with JMU.  ED is a great tool and it's too bad they're getting rid of it.[/quote]

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