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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT does not yield protect. I know some.people want to use this as an excuse for their kids not getting in, but that does not make it true. VT will definitely reject/waitlist a "high stats" kid that does not take the time to appropriately answer their 4 short essay questions. The 20:57 PP on page 2, for example, does not take the time to proofread their posts. Perhaps their essays were also riddled with grammatical errors. 
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It didn't take long for the "VT does not yield protect" crowd to show up, did it? :lol:

You are wrong. Regardless of what their policy says, they do yield protect (or yield manage). Otherwise, you cannot explain the number of otherwise qualified kids that get waitlisted here but got into several other similar or higher ranked schools. Tech (along with NEU and UF) were safeties for my kid (a couple of years ago). He was waitlisted at Tech but got into the other two. I read all his essays and they were all of the same calibre. I may be biased about my kid's writing, but not so on a relative basis.  We also know multiple kids that year and since with similar outcomes - didn't get into Tech, but did at higher ranked, more selective, schools. Can't explain that with "oh, they wrote poor essays because they were thinking it was a safety". No one does that.[/quote]

Your kid did not get into VT, and [b]I understand that made you sad/angry.[/b] You can't fathom that institutional priorities are a factor, and VT had so many highly qualified applicants that they can pick and choose among them to fill their priority buckets. So you decide to falsely proclaim that your kid was waitlisted because of yield protection. I suppose you are welcome to think/say it, but that does not make it true.[/quote]

Why would it? As I pointed out, he got into his other safeties and of course his reaches too! He wouldn't have attended anyways..

The other half of the story I didn't share.. DC3 got into VT this year. For him it was a reach and we were mighty thrilled he got in. Way lower stats, way crappier essays (he literally wrote them the day before). But the story is the same this year also.. several of his very high stats friends did not get in. I am also an alum of VT so we are absolutely vested in the success of VT, but let's call a spade a spade.. VT DOES yield protect (or yield manage if that makes some of y'all feel better). [/quote]

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