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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At VT, this will depend on two issues:

1.  Did you and your child's other parent go to college?
2.  Is your child an URM?

Those two things will matter a lot.  [/quote]

Hmm.  Neither of these two things applied to my child and they got in - with good grades and scores.  I think you're overgeneralizing here.   :roll: [/quote]

Hmm.   OP's child doesn't have "good grades and scores."   I think you need to actually read the OP here.  :roll: [/quote]

Uh, no.  I was responding directly to the PP, who keeps making snide comments about needing to be 1st gen or URM to get into VT - which is patently false.  Perhaps you're the snide PP, which explains a lot.   :roll: [/quote]

No one is making snide comments. They are stating fact. Virginia Tech’s President, Timothy Sands, has been on a well published role on making Virginia Tech more than 40 percent URM/first-generation. See here. https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/09/admissions-fall-census-2022.html. Many in the college admissions field have wondered if this is a proper role for the only public polytechnic school in the Commonwealth. Most say it’s fine for privates to engage in social engineering of incoming classes but not the only polytechnic which many Virginia families need in these tough economic times. If you go back and read the Virginia Tech ED, EA and RD results here and in College Confidential  and Reddit you will see many very high stats kids - who would have gotten in to VT before Sands took over - were waitlisted or rejected. This was especially apparent amongst the TJ classes. A lot has been written on this in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Combine this initiative along with the fact that Tech practices yield discrimination and the fact that more OOS students than Virginians  get the coveted engineer problem and you will begin to understand why many Virginia parents are upset at Sands’ policies.[/quote]

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