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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fcps 4.1 and 1380 sat here. Waitlisted for tech.

Things that didn’t help:

[b]One of the top fcps schools
Not urm 
Not first Gen
Male applying to business school[/b]

Otherwise everting else fit. Varsity sports captain, 8 APs and everything else honors. [/quote]

:roll:  These are not the reasons your kid didn't get in.  Plenty of white, UMC students from top FCPS high schools are accepted to all majors, including business and engineering.  Your kid was simply in competition with all of them.  [/quote]

I think the question is did kids with lower stats than this get in? When we did the VT tour, they told us that GPA and rigor were the two most important considerations.[/quote]

We took the tour there too and while they, like almost every other school, say that grades and rigor are most important, they said their approach is holistic. They look at a lot of factors.  They emphasized community service more than some schools. [b]They never promise to admit kids based SOLELY on grades and rigor. None of them do.[/b] [/quote]

This is not news. To anyone. You are assuming that the high stats kids someone didn't know about this and are now shocked that they were not admitted. Why would you assume that? Service hours are the easiest EC to get or make up.
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If someone with lower stats than you got in (of similar schools,region, etc.) then they offered something in their application that you did not. Probably most of the time it comes down to the Ut Prosim questions. I recall when my DS applied a couple years ago people on here said there's no way VT actually reads all those. Well, yes, they say they do. And it's the ONLY thing that personalizes the student in the whole application since they don't take letters of recommendation or read the common app essay. Kids who blow off the essays because they are short and can't possibly matter have miscalculated.[/quote]

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