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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of the high achieving, well rounded kids at my DC's school are interested in William & Mary.  It seems to attract a certain "type"--which tends to be an academic-only (fewer ECs, no sports) student who would be a fit at certain SLACs, but chooses W&M because of lower in-state tuition.

The high achieving, well rounded kids seem much more interested in UVA, with VT as a safety school.  Then looking at privates like Georgetown, Duke, Emory, and Vandy.    [/quote]

Guess that’s why VT was overenrolled.[/quote]
VT was overenrolled because admissions and enrollment management didn't use the right yield models. They ignored a faculty member who ran a model and told them the consultants' model was going to result in overenrollment.

https://www.roanoke.com/news/education/virginia-tech-pushing-capacity-after-admitting-larger-than-anticipated-freshman/article_6e490329-20c5-5ac9-9d23-b12dac164aa0.html
[quote]According to a letter sent by engineering education professor Marie Paretti to fellow members of the Tech Faculty Senate, the university should’ve seen the numbers coming.

“Frankly, it is unacceptable to me to hear anyone in the administration suggest that these numbers are unexpected,” she wrote.

[b]She wrote that a colleague in the College of Engineering had predicted more than 2,600 new freshmen, an oversized class for that college, based on the numbers from the university and shared that with administrators. The prediction was ignored, she wrote.[/b]

She wrote that the increase in students would create unnecessary strain on Blacksburg.

“As the Faculty Senate, I believe we need to hold the administration accountable not only for the over-enrollment itself, but for the persistent disregard of faculty and staff on the ground who saw this coming and tried repeatedly to raise concerns and be proactive,” she wrote.[/quote][/quote]

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