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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]virginia tech big time[/quote]

1. VT is not a safety.
2. VT does not yield-protect and says as much right on their website.

[b]"Yield Protection
Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection."
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https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html#:~:text=Virginia%20Tech%20does%20not,participate%20in%20yield%20protection.[/quote]

OP here.
I’ve heard that if you have over a 1500 SAT to watch out with VT.  That’s really sad because it’s a top choice for my son. He submitted his app early (yesterday) plus we toured in Jan. Hopefully that signals to VT, that he is interested.[/quote]

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SAT scores don’t matter as much as GPA and the VT essays. VT does not yield protect. [/quote]

According to our Navience data they clearly do, or at least overly use waitlist for high stats kids.  Better chance of getting in with a 4.1/1460 than a 4.4/1560.  We had 20+ waitlisted kids with over a 4.1 and over a 1500, including 4.6/1570, 4.6/1580, 4.5/1590.  Also two outright rejections at 4.3/1550.  Kind of crazy for a school with an average SAT of 1260.  [/quote]

I'm seeing a huge forest of green in the top right of our naviance for VT. Over 1300 SAT and 4.0 gpa is essentially an auto-admit. Nothing about it says "yield protection". There are some waitlists in this high stats group, but given that (for example) in the group >1400 >4.3 there are about 50 admits, it is absurd to attribute the 7 waitlisted applicants to "yield protection".[/quote]

Who said anything about seven?  At our school for over 4.0 and over 1500 we have 29 waitlist and 4 rejections.  Over 4.0 and 1350-1490 is almost an auto-admit.  Obviously data from one school is not dispositive, but the higher stats kids at our school are getting different results than you would expect.  I'm not sure why VT people are so defensive about this.  There were a few years in recent history when VT overenrolled because they got more yield than they expected and they probably started using waitlist more to protect against overenrolling.  If you want to call it yield management instead I guess that if fine.  Everyone should check the data from their school and plan accordingly.[/quote]

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